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Life Expectancy GDP per Capita

This entry contains the average number of years to be lived by a group of people born in the same year, if mortality at each age remains constant in the future. The entry includes total population as well as the male and female components. (more…)

Worsening Divorce Rate Points to Improving U.S. Growth Outlook

By Steve Matthews  Feb 18, 2014 8:12 AM CT

Source: Bloomberg

Hard economic times had kept Amy Derose and her husband Lawrence locked in an unhappy marriage for the sake of their engineering firm in Pompano BeachFlorida.

“The business was hanging on by a thread and we had to hang on,” said Derose, 53, who had been married 35 years and worked as the business manager. “We couldn’t afford to split. He needed me in the business and I needed him.” (more…)

Teapots Boiling in Texas as Shale Spurs Refining Revival: Energy

By Dan Murtaugh  Jan 31, 2014 2:12 PM CT

Source: Bloomberg 

Near the only four-way stoplight in Nixon, Texas, smoke rises off a pilot flare at theBlue Dolphin Energy Co. (BDCO)refinery that had sat cold for two decades.

The employee parking lot is full, tanker trucks line up to unload crude and the silver distillation tower thrums. None of that was happening two years ago, when Blue Dolphin reopened the 10,000-barrel-a-day plant. Smaller refineries are known as “teapots” because of their size. (more…)

A Lesson on Market Efficiency

Natural Gas Climbs in Survey as Arctic Chill Drives Demand

By  Naureen S. Malik  Jan 24, 2014 3:22 PM CT

Source: Bloomberg

Related ArticleNatural Gas Rises in Survey as Cold Weather Depletes Supplies

Natural gas futures will gain next week as freezing weather boosts demand and erodes inventories of the heating fuel, according to a Bloomberg survey.

Seven of 13 analysts, or 54 percent, said prices will advance on the New York (more…)

Spring 2014 Syllabus

Syllabus Spring 2014 are now available for viewing.

Instructor: H. Swint Friday

FINA-1307_W01 ( Personal Finance– 100% Online Course)

(Please note that this course does NOT require the Connect access code)

FINA-3331_001   (Investments)

FINA-4315_001   (International Finance)

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For Syllabus Spring 2014 (All Courses at TAMUCC), Please click TAMUCC-Syllabus Spring 2014.

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