Atlantic International Partnership Headlines: Madrid and Istanbul set to enter 2020 Olympics

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The Spanish capital of Madrid and Istanbul in Turkey are set to join the race to host the 2020 Olympics after the two cities moved a step closer to submitting official bids on Wednesday.

At a press conference, Madrid Mayor Alberto Ruiz-Gallardon, flanked by spokesmen for the two main political parties in Spain, said he would present a bid proposal to city legislators for a vote on July 20. Madrid came desperately close to securing the hosting rights in the tenders for the 2012 and 2016 Games. Although there are serious concerns about Spain’s economy, and the country’s Sports Minister has admitted “if this (financial downturn) did not exist, our support would have been automatic”, Ruiz-Gallardon insisted that the Games could provide a timely boost.

“Madrid has finished an extremely high percentage of the infrastructure needed for the organisation of the Olympics and Paralympics and can count on the experience of the previous two bids and the recognition of the Olympic family,” Gallardon said, according to Reuters. “The completed work means the cost of the bid will be significantly less, following criterion of austerity and efficiency with the highest possible return for the image of Madrid and Spain.”

Turkey’s Sports Minister, Suat Kilic, told CNN-Turk television on Wednesday that Turkey was set to make its bid for the 2020 Games official, and added: “We are one of the rare countries that can shoulder the financial burden of the Olympics.” Kilic said that a final decision would be made by July 29 after a meeting with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, although the International Olympic Committee’s deadline for applicant city nominations is September 1.

Istanbul mounted four consecutive failed bids for the 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012 Olympics. If Turkey does confirm Istanbul’s applicant city status, it will face competition from Southern Europe in the form of Italy, with Rome the only city so far to confirm it has entered the bidding. Berlin could also provide competition on the continent, with the city’s Mayor Klaus Wowereit telling Der Tagesspiegel newspaper on Wednesday: “Berlin is ready for the Olympic Games and Berlin has all the requirements.”

However, the German National Olympic Committee, which saw Munich lose out to PyeongChang in last week’s vote for the 2018 Winter Olympics, has suggested there may not be enough time to table a bid for 2020. A bid from the Qatari capital of Doha may materialise, though, according to Olympic Council of Asia president Sheik Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah. “I hear Doha have an interest,” Sheikh Ahmad told Japan’s Kyodo news agency. “This is what I’m hearing, but we don’t have anything officially announced yet.” The Japanese capital of Tokyo is also expected to announce a formal bid in the coming days after missing out on the 2016 Games.

Atlantic International Partnership - What We Do

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MADRID, SPAIN, June 18, 2011 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Atlantic International Partnership (AIP) offers a comprehensive service giving you, AIP investors and entrepreneurs access to Marketplaces in your region and around the World.

AIP investors are uniquely dynamic individuals or groups of individuals. AIP investors invest their capital in new or early stage companies. We have found that AIP investors are not a source of capital alone but we have found them to make excellent mentors. As most AIP investors are in fact successful entrepreneurs or business people themselves we have found that they are able to offer entrepreneurs advice and helpful suggestions based on the experience that they have accumulated from their own businesses.

At AIP we have over 250,000 active investors around the World.

This website is designed to help prospective AIP investors connect with our portfolio start-up companies or entrepreneurs to help create a successful business who's positive effect will be of benefit to all parties involved.

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Our investment team brings together a wealth of experience, much of it gained in fund management roles in the major financial centres in America, Europe and Asia. We have actively recruited a dynamic mixture of analysts and advisers who have proven results in their fields of expertise. Our team serves both individual and institutional investors. All are given the same exceptional access to our full compliment of financial services available.

Having chosen to work in the dynamic environment of our company, where each client is known as an individual, our investment managers are able to offer you a standard of investment expertise often only available to larger institutional investors.

AIP, along with the individual and institutional investors, provides investment advisory services to corporate pension funds, public retirement plans, endowments and foundations, mutual funds and Client's Trust Funds.

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Here at AIP we appreciate that each and every individual investor is a uniquely complex person. It's our belief in this that has led us develop a widely recognised innovative investment philosophy. At AIP we believe that our methodology can significantly increase the success of our private clients investments.

Our philosophy of investment brings together our thorough assessment of prospective investors with our advanced portfolio building programs. Altogether this allows us to provide tailor made solutions designed to deliver the right performance for each client. These AIP investor profiles allow us to provide the confidence needed between a client and their advisor, helping to make the right decisions in both the good times and the turbulent times. This leads to improved results in performance over the long-term.

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1. Discover your unique investment profile
Our team of AIP advisors are here to assess and produce your unique investment profile from the information that you provide in an interview with one of our senior analysts. We use sophisticated methods of assessment to identify the traits taken from your interview to construct a profile which describes to us how you react to and handle, as an individual, various financial situations and decisions. From these traits or characteristics of your investment profile we can form a highly detailed picture of the kind of unique individual that you are and how you relate to your financial health and well-being.

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We have developed a novel structure for our investment portfolios. Different investments are classified by the objectives and time limits set out by an investment profile. This results in such investment portfolios which are designed to maximise on return according to the amount of time and investment each individual inputs. This will increase you ability to manage your wealth.

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AIP is committed to using the industry's latest and most sophisticated methods and techniques to design and carry out a range of investment options that are appropriate for your investment profile. We use these methodologies in every single stage in the building of your portfolio.

Atlantic International Partnership (AIP) offers a comprehensive service giving you, AIP investors and entrepreneurs' access to Marketplaces in your region and around the World. AIP investors are uniquely dynamic individuals or groups of individuals. AIP investors invest their capital in new or early stage companies. We have found that AIP investors are not a source of capital alone but we have found them to make excellent mentors. As most AIP investors are in fact successful entrepreneurs or business people themselves we have found that they are able to offer entrepreneurs advice and helpful suggestions based on the experience that they have accumulated from their own businesses.

Atlantic International Partnership – Markets, Mutual Funds and Stocks

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 Mutual Funds – At AIP, it is our philosophy to help you build the secure financial future that you are looking for. Mutual Funds are one option available through AIP. Mutual funds can be an important part of any portfolio in helping you reach those goals.

Here are descriptions of the vast array of mutual fund choices and mutual fund related services offered by AIP. For more information contact your AIP Advisor – Money Market Funds, Bond/Income Funds, Balanced Funds and Equity Funds.

One of the main advantages to the smaller investor that mutual funds can provide is access to our team of professional advisers and fund managers. They will also have access to equity portfolios, bonds and other securities. For the smaller investor the kind of access to such resources and opportunities may be almost impossible to achieve with only small amounts of capital available for investment. Each shareholder in a mutual fund participates proportionally in any gains or losses.

Atlantic International Partnership Headlines: Who are Gaddafi’s on-screen supporters?

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Of course Reuters has reporters on both sides of the front line, but from Tunis I have been keeping an eye on Libyan television too – partly because it has scrolling headlines in English about the latest crusader, colonial and al Qaeda atrocities which might carry some news but also, I have to admit, from a fascination with the procession of people voicing their support for the Brother Leader, Muammar Gaddafi.
Not being an Arabic speaker, I can only gather a few words, but the raised voices make clear the emotion, often from Gaddafi’s Bab al Aziziyah compound itself.
Who are these Libyans and what do they really feel? Who are the people who bring young children on their shoulders to this repeatedly bombed compound, dressing them in bright green patriotic suits like little elves and hoisting them high while they thrust fists in the air?
Through the day the voices change – at one point a talk show host with improbably red hair discusses with participants sat in armchairs in the sunshine of the Mediterranean spring.
A succession of people take the microphone to voice their opinion – pretty much the same opinion. Sometimes they are teenagers, sometimes workers, sometimes in uniform, sometimes old men in sunglasses – always speaking quickly, loudly and angrily.
Do people get paid for their appearances or is it worth it for the few minutes of fame? Do they volunteer? Are they forced to do this?
Then  the crowds build, waving pictures of Gaddafi from various eras – the young colonel in the years after he seized power more than four decades ago, the guide in the dress of a desert nomad, the leader in ‘King of Pop’-style uniforms covered in braid. Fists are thrust skyward again.
Sometimes there are gunshots of celebration in the air. Once, some spectators appeared on horseback. Another day, a group seemed to burst spontaneously into the streets around the compound, sweeping their green flags in joy as though taking an early day off from school.
At night the lights might come out for a pop concert, the crowd swaying to the rhythm and patriotic lyrics.
Is attendance obligatory or is it the best entertainment on offer in Tripoli? Once you are there, do you get overtaken by the mood of solidarity and patriotism? When you go home to do you feel energised? Do you feel relieved to have escaped unscathed? Uneasy at your part in what even the most charitable would have to call propaganda? Is it all just in a day’s work?
Even being in Tripoli wouldn’t necessarily help to answer these questions. As my colleague Lin Noueihed wrote from there, the fear is palpable and getting an honest opinion from anyone is almost impossible.
It would seem insulting to brand all the people appearing on television as mere sycophants. Tripoli has been bombed repeatedly. The very compound has been targeted – according to Libyan officials killing several members of Gaddafi’s family plus security guards and office workers. There is reason to be angry, but also plenty of reason to be afraid.
Unfortunately, while we don’t know those people have the freedom to say what they believe, we also have to question whether we can believe anything they say. One day, I hope to find out.

Atlantic International Partnership Headlines: Stock Market News for May 4, 2011

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On Tuesday, markets felt the pinch of disappointing quarterly results and the benchmarks slid a few points as investors feared profitability might drop over the coming quarters. Over the past couple of weeks, markets have remained upbeat, climbing to multi-year highs following robust corporate results. Additionally, a drop in crude prices weighed down the energy sector.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) was the only gainer among the benchmarks as it edged up 0.2% to 12,807.51. The Standard & poor 500 dropped 0.3% and the Nasdaq slipped 0.8% to settle at 1,356.62 and 12,807.51, respectively. After hitting its highest level in three years last week, the S&P 500 has now declined for two-straight days. On the New York Stock Exchange, composite volumes were at 4.5 billion shares. For every one stock that advanced on the NYSE, two stocks declined.
While earnings had been a favorable factor for the markets over the past few weeks, the markets had to suffer the flip side as companies posted lower-than-expected results yesterday. Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE – Analyst Report) (2.8%) was one of the biggest laggards for the Dow as it failed to beat sales estimates. Joining the list of disappointing results were companies like Clorox Corporation (NYSE:CLX – Analyst Report), Molson Coors Brewing Company (NYSE:TAP – Analyst Report), Beazer Homes USA Inc. (NYSE:BZH – Snapshot Report) and Sears Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ:SHLD – Analyst Report). These shares dropped 3.6%, 6.0%, 5.0% and 9.9%, respectively.
Pfizer Inc. posted a heavily disappointing result. Earnings for the quarter managed to top estimates but shares slid significantly as the drug major failed to cross revenue estimates. Moreover, the company also lowered its revenue guidance. Pfizer Inc. reported first quarter earnings of 60 cents per share, flat from the year-ago period. First quarter revenues declined 0.4% to $16.5 billion. Shares were down 2.8% and finally closed at $20.44.
Meanwhile, Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. (NASDAQ:CTSH – Analyst Report) reported revenues of $1.37 billion in the first quarter of 2011, up 42.9% year over year and up 4.6% sequentially. Net income came in at $208.3 million or 67 cents per diluted share compared to a net income of $151.5 million or 49 cents per share in the year-ago quarter.  Cognizant Technology’s figures managed to beat estimates but its slowing growth rate dragged the shares down. The company’s shares dropped 5.75 to settle at $77.52.
As crude prices retreated, energy shares slid into the red, dragging down the broader markets. The June crude oil contract dropped $2.47 and settled at $111.05 a barrel Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM – Analyst Report), ConocoPhillips (NYSE:COP – Analyst Report), Chevron Corp. (NYSE:CVX – Analyst Report), Valero Energy Corp. (NYSE:VLO – Analyst Report) and Western Refining Inc. (NYSE:WNR – Analyst Report) dropped 1.6%, 3.8%, 1.9%, 2.8% and 3.4%, respectively.
Economic data, released on Tuesday did little to boost market sentiment. The Commerce Department reported that Factory Orders increased by 3.0%, $13.5 billion, to $462.9 billion in March against expectations that the measure would increase by 1.9%, following a 0.7% increase in February. Factory Orders are up following five consecutive monthly increases. Excluding transportation, Factory Orders increased by 2.6%.

Atlantic International Partnership Headlines:Facebook: Now Serving Over 500 Million Users and 346 Billion Ads

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On his Facebook page, Mark Zuckerberg explains that his social networking site is fashioning a more open world where people can “share what’s important to them.” Increasingly, the world’s advertisers are also leveraging the platform to share what’s important to them–to the tune of 346 billion display ad impressions in the first quarter of 2011.
ComScore is reporting today that Facebook doubled the number of ads it delivered during the same period last year and crushed all other online publishers, serving a whopping one in three online ads in the U.S. Yahoo, Microsoft, AOL, and Google rounded out the top five (AOL’s display advertising, in fact, has been a bright spot in the company’s otherwise dismal financial performance). The ranks of the top online advertisers were dominated by finance and telecom: AT&T finished first, followed by the credit information company Experian, the online trading and investing company Scottrade, the accounting software company Intuit, and Verizon (we were surprised the acai berry people didn’t make the cut). In all, America’s internet users were flooded with over one trillion ads during the quarter.
Erick Schonfeld at TechCrunch explains that Facebook’s strong performance doesn’t necessarily mean the company is stealthily transforming social networking into a blaring billboard. Facebook’s growing popularity allows it serve more ads on more pages, Schonfeld notes, and the company is also experimenting with social ads that look more like News items shared by friends.

Atlantic International Partnership Headlines: Berkshire stands by investment in BYD

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(Reuters) – Berkshire Hathaway is happy with its investment in Chinese car maker BYD Co Ltd, despite product delays and declining sales, Berkshire’s vice chairman Charlie Munger said on Saturday.
Munger and Warren Buffett were asked at the company’s annual meeting whether they still considered BYD a good investment despite the company’s recent problems.
“I’m quite encouraged by what’s going on, and I expect delays and glitches,” said Munger. Buffett has said that Munger was the inspiration for Berkshire’s September 2008 purchase of nearly 10 percent of BYD.
BYD’s March sales were down more than 40 percent from a year earlier, and its entry into the U.S. market has been repeatedly delayed. Munger said such growing pains were natural given BYD’s aggressive growth plans