Australian venture capital firm Flying Fox Ventures is focusing on decidedly unsexy startups, its partners say, as local investors modify their strategies in the wake of the tech downturn over the past 18 months. Flying Fox led a $1.4 million ($750,000) investment round in British accounting startup Mayday, which founder Rachael Neumann says is part …
A group of elite companies that have driven growth for most of this year is sending a signal that may herald further losses. According to Michael Kramer, a longtime independent market analyst and founder of Mott Capital Management. A composite index of these eight stocks (both A grades GOOGLE and class C GOOG shares are …
Smaller companies are struggling under the weight of interest rates, and rising insolvencies are a signal of recession. According to Societe Generale, lending conditions for small companies are the same as during the economic downturn. “The notion that we are at the beginning of a new economic cycle seems preposterous to me,” wrote Albert Edwards. …
The Downtown Sacramento Farmers Market located on Capitol Mall comes to an end this Wednesday after being extended through October. The market runs from May to September, but this year the Downtown Sacramento Partnership decided to extend it after consulting with farmers and vendors. This has benefited farmers like Federico Toledo of Lodi, who says …