Investment Guide in a Crisis-Laden Business Environment

Perhaps by now everyone already aware that the business world has been hit by the global financial crisis that has adversely affected many businesses in terms of their operation. As a result of large investments and lending companies, or have reduced or completely cut-off their investment as the market does not realize that any business venture whether new or expansion.

Thus, this phenomenon has created a ripple effect that gives the fear in the public and resulted in the holding company for the purchase of personal needs and the postponement of personal investment. People today are generally skeptical of business and investment particularly in countries which were badly affected by this crisis for fear that it will only end up losing their money. Although this crisis is global in nature there are still countries that provide a good investment climate, so this will be a sad task to identify the investor.

and one of the best ways is to know and understand the macro-economic performance of the country through economic indicators. With advances in information technology, it is not hard to get these economic indicators from these data can be set up criteria that will guide investment.

If the stock market should look at the performance of specific companies, as well as with investments in the country should look at the macro-economic performance through the economic indicators as follows:

a) gross domestic product (GDP) - refers to growth or shrinkage and is usually given in percentages. negative GDP, or barely above zero will show that the country is in economic trouble.

b) gross international reserves (GIR) - refers to the amount of the country's wealth and it is usually presented in terms of its ability to pay for its imports. It is usually measured in relation to the number of months to cover for imports. months of import cover is critical, therefore, it is not a good move to invest

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c) refers to the currency value of the country's money due to the generally accepted standard of monetary value (U.S. dollars and euros). lower value for money compared to their historical record is not as good as it makes the investment becomes more expensive.

d) Inflation - refers to the rate of change of prices of basic goods and services. High inflation is not good for people as well as their expenses on basic needs tend to go up, thus, reducing their savings to purchase other goods and can not be good for business in general

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e) Interest Rate - refers to the costs of using, or borrowing money. high interest rates is not an ideal country for investment and operations as it becomes more expensive to operate.

f) a growth industry - this refers to the different areas of activity such as agriculture, Automotive & Machinery, Power, real estate, telecommunications and information technology, etc. This is very important to watch, because your success determines the investment performance of selected industries.

These are just some of the macro-economic indicators for the evaluation of individual other than the project description and business information that potential investors should be assessed when planning to invest. Although it is not 100% guide for sustainable investment is relatively important point to consider in order to achieve a higher degree of success.