http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/cc15ccdc-e147-11e5-9217-6ae3733a2cd1.html?ftcamp=traffic/partner/feed_headline/us_yahoo/auddev#axzz41rdDb6eG In contrast with the many smaller acquisitions made by MasterCard in the past 36 months, this purchase, should it come to pass, looks to be nicely accretive to revenue and earnings, from the get-go.

At taverns, barbeques, reunions, family events and sports get-togethers, people of all ages love to talk about the hard-fought achievements of life. “Our team…. we played hard, we trained hard and we always left it on the field.” “Our coach….,…

MasterCard reported total card growth of 10.8% for fiscal 2015. http://investor.mastercard.com/investor-relations/events-and-presentations/event-details/2016/Q4-and-Full-Year-2015-MasterCard-Inc-Earnings-Conference-Call/default.aspx The highlights were as follows. Reports Q4 (Dec) earnings of $0.79 per share, $0.10 better than the Capital IQ Consensus of $0.69; revenues rose 4.4% year/year to $2.52 bln…

For many investors, the first month of 2016 has started off on a down-beat note. A total and utter collapse in oil prices based upon oversupply, as was predicted in an earlier post, has come to fruition. Those that were…

A record throughput was recorded in terms of passenger traffic at the Haikou Meilan International Airport for 2015. http://www.mlairport.com/autoweb/autoweb/secondpage/hkml_en_tzzgxhken_jb.html?id=0TL4prj5XFv4rbjenull9mFa43KK29MBLdAhken_jb&name=Operation%20Data&t1=Operational&t2=s_c_name_scsj%20s_j_c&t3=3&t4=8