As 2009 fades away, it’s time to step up to the plate and make my predictions for 2010. While my predictions for 2009 had a few misses, like the one that had the US dollar reaching parity with the Euro, some of my calls were actually spot on. My call on where the S&P 500 would close is within 1% of where it is!

Okay, enough backpatting, let’s get to the predictions:

1- Faced with unprecedented low popularity due to their reckless spending and softness on national defense, the Democrats lose control of congress, as a new Republican revolution sweeps the US.

2- The S&P 500 has another volatile year, but ends up registering a gain to close at 1291

3- The Planet continues to cool

4-After announcing that he will stay in school, University of Washington QB sensation Jake Locker has a great season and wins the Heisman Trophy.

5- A small scale sub-prime crisis

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As 2009 fades away, it’s time to step up to the plate and make my predictions for 2010. While my predictions for 2009 had a few misses, like the one that had the US dollar reaching parity with the Euro, some of my calls were actually spot on. My call on where the S&P 500 would close is within 1% of where it is!

Okay, enough backpatting, let’s get to the predictions:

1- Faced with unprecedented low popularity due to their reckless spending and softness on national defense, the Democrats lose control of congress, as a new Republican revolution sweeps the US.

2- The S&P 500 has another volatile year, but ends up registering a gain to close at 1291

3- The Planet continues to cool

4-After announcing that he will stay in school, University of Washington QB sensation Jake Locker has a great season and wins the Heisman Trophy.

5- A small scale sub-prime crisis

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As 2009 fades away, it’s time to step up to the plate and make my predictions for 2010. While my predictions for 2009 had a few misses, like the one that had the US dollar reaching parity with the Euro, some of my calls were actually spot on. My call on where the S&P 500 would close is within 1% of where it is!

Okay, enough backpatting, let’s get to the predictions:

1- Faced with unprecedented low popularity due to their reckless spending and softness on national defense, the Democrats lose control of congress, as a new Republican revolution sweeps the US.

2- The S&P 500 has another volatile year, but ends up registering a gain to close at 1291

3- The Planet continues to cool

4-After announcing that he will stay in school, University of Washington QB sensation Jake Locker has a great season and wins the Heisman Trophy.

5- A small scale sub-prime crisis

...

As 2009 fades away, it’s time to step up to the plate and make my predictions for 2010. While my predictions for 2009 had a few misses, like the one that had the US dollar reaching parity with the Euro, some of my calls were actually spot on. My call on where the S&P 500 would close is within 1% of where it is!

Okay, enough backpatting, let’s get to the predictions:

1- Faced with unprecedented low popularity due to their reckless spending and softness on national defense, the Democrats lose control of congress, as a new Republican revolution sweeps the US.

2- The S&P 500 has another volatile year, but ends up registering a gain to close at 1291

3- The Planet continues to cool

4-After announcing that he will stay in school, University of Washington QB sensation Jake Locker has a great season and wins the Heisman Trophy.

5- A small scale sub-prime crisis

...

Chinese retail information solutions provider Changyi Technologies has set up a strategic partnership with the retail solutions provider Retalix, to provide more advanced information technology to Chinese retail enterprises. The two parties have announced that over the next year, they will be working together to promote Retalix' chain management software products, including Retalix StoreLine, Retalix [...]

By Aaron Katsman

We are always complaining that prices that we pay for goods and services are always going up. Listen to the news and you will hear that the price of bread is going up, as is the price of gasoline. In addition, in order to escape the economic slowdown that has gripped the world, the US and almost every other country, is printing money 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to meet the trillions in new government spending.

We hear the term “Inflation” thrown around but what is it and how does it impact our investments?

Definition

Inflation is defined as a sustained increase in the general level of prices for goods and services. It is measured as an annual percentage increase. As inflation rises, every dollar you own buys a smaller percentage of a good or service.

The value of a dollar does not stay constant when

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Barclays Capital came out predicting a quick end to the shallow Israeli recession, and a return to decent growth of 2.9%  by next year.  Keep in mind that the Israeli economy was late to the ‘recession game’ and looks to be an early ‘exiter’ from economic turmoil as well.

With all this great news Barclays said that they expect an Israeli Shekel/USD exchange rate of 3.65 buy the end of the year. That’s a big move from the 3.93 area that the currency is trading at now.

According to Globes: “Barclays sees a less severe recession in Israel, and relatively quick growth recovery. The investment house bases its optimism on the fact that about 75% of Israeli exports are high-tech goods, and Barclays says that a rise in the Tech-Pulse Index - showing a US high-tech recovery - points to stronger Israeli exports. The Tech-Pulse Index,

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It’s been a good 22 years since I took French classes, and I was trying to remember the French word that best described the word’ Chutzpah’. Then I heard the news and the word became clear. The word is  Sarkozy.

Who does this guy think he is? According to a Ynet article: “Channel 2 reported Monday that during Netanyahu’s meeting with Sarkozy in Paris the latter said the prime minister should appoint Opposition chairwoman Tzipi Livni in Lieberman’s place. “With her and (Defense Minister Ehud) Barak you can make history”, he was quoted as saying. “I have always accepted Israeli foreign ministers, and I loved to have Tzipi Livni here at the Elysee, but with (Lieberman) I can’t,” he was reported as saying with a wave of his hand.”

Pardoner Mois! We don’t tell you how to run your foreign affairs so

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Israelnewsletter.com had the opportunity to sit down with serial entrepreneur, Shai Wininger, about his new startup and hear how he enjoys running a family business.

Please tell us about your background. Shai Wininger, Developer of Kotel Notes: I am a so called “serial entrepreneur” born and raised in Israel, married with two children and living in Haifa.

I have always been drawn to mobile computing and Internet in my work. I started my first business (Ananas Design www.ananasgroup.com) right after high school - around 1991. Ananas Design was among the first few companies to do branding and premium multimedia projects, and later on - websites for companies in Israel at the time (the Internet as we know it was just early days).  Ananas was all self funded, and grew nicely with customers from the Israeli Defense industry, communications and media sectors. Following that, I founded Trimus Inc. which offered ...

Israelnewsletter.com had the opportunity to sit down with serial entrepreneur Yaron Galai, Co-Founder and CEO of Outbrain, who sold his last startup to AOL, to talk about his newest venture.

Can you tell us a bit about your background? Yaron Galai, Co-Founder, Outbrain: I’ve been an entrepreneur since I can remember myself working… Actually realized recently that I have never in my life sent my resume applying for a job. I am now working on my 4th company called Outbrain. My first company, in which I was more or less the only employee…, was called NetWorks. It was one of the first web design shops in Israel. I started doing that around 1995 or 96 when the first Netscape browsers just came out. I ended up developing about

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