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Start of a Global Currency Crisis?

MishTalk

In Emerging Market Contagion Spreads , I presented a viewpoint that emerging market currencies have been under pressure because of falling commodity prices. To be fair, quite a few emerging market currencies as well as the currencies of developed countries that are large commodity exporters have been under pressure for some time.

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Spain Suffers from Hundreds of Earthquakes Caused by Offshore Drilling; Largest Quake is Magnitude 4.2; Citizens Complain of Cracks and Tremors Whipping Their Homes

MishTalk

Jose Manuel Soria, the Minister of Industry, Energy and Tourism said that it appears that there is a direct relationship between the injection of gas into the underground Castor warehouse and earthquakes. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction.

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The Mainstreaming of Augmented Reality: A Brief History

Harvard Business

In a previous piece I discussed why some AR apps are destined to be forgotten as gimmicks, and what mistakes marketers should avoid when trying to deploy them. The first commercial AR application appeared in 2008. The application was one of the first marketing campaigns that allowed interaction with a digital model in real time.

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