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A reserve currency is one in which institutions (mostly central banks, but also financial institutions or individuals) hold their nondomestic-currency reserves. A reserve currency must meet the requirements of an international currency and there must also be sufficient supply of the currency. Over the past decade, the U.S. …
Resource-seeking investment is one of the types of foreign direct investment; it mainly focuses on rich raw materials, low-cost unskilled and skilled labor, technological assets, and physical infrastructure. According to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), resource-seeking investment was the most common foreign direct investment …
Retail capital markets are national and international exchanges, mostly formal though informal in some cases, where individuals can invest or obtain funds; because of the small size of most of these transactions, usually financial intermediaries such as banks or share brokers are involved. Retail capital markets can be …
Retailing involves all the activities used to sell goods and services directly to final consumers for personal nonbusiness use; global retailing represents retailing activities that cross national boundaries. Over the past several centuries, entrepreneurial merchants have ventured abroad to exchange merchandise and open retail operations. International trading and …
Reuters, the world’s largest international multimedia news organization, provides a variety of news-related services including newswires, pictures, video, online syndication, and news graphics. In 2008 the company employed 2,400 journalists reporting from 196 bureaus. In 2007, it filed over 3 million news items in 132 countries. According to …
Revaluation occurs when a government or its central bank increases the official price at which its currency can be bought on the foreign exchange (Forex) market. For example, suppose that the current U.S. dollar (USD)/British pound (GBP) exchange rate was 2:1, meaning that $2 had to be given …
Reverse engineering refers to any activity that analyzes a product to determine either how it works or the principles underlying its functioning. Starting from the product itself, an attempt is made to derive an earlier stage in the design and development process; this could be a detailed design, …
Risk is a concept that refers to a possibility of occurrence of some undesirable event and is closely related to uncertainty. There is no universally accepted definition of risk. Risk has been considered in many academic disciplines and treated from various points of view. It has been studied …
Human beings have been taking and managing risks for centuries. Peter Bernstein argues that the mastery of risk is what separates ancient from modern times. He attributes the calculation of probabilities, beginning in 16th-century Italy, with our ability to quantify risk and to make informed decisions on the …
Robotics is the design, construction, and use of machines (robots) to perform tasks traditionally done by human beings. Although there is no consensus regarding the definition of the term robot, it is commonly defined as a mechanism that can sense its environment, process what it senses, and act …
Roche Group is a Swiss healthcare company operating in more than 150 countries and employing more than 78,000 people worldwide. Roche’s operations are focused on two major healthcare areas: diagnostics and pharmaceuticals. In the field of diagnostics, Roche Group positions itself as a world leader in in vitro …
Romania is a middle-income southeast European country with a population of 22 million. The population is 90 percent Romanian with a 7 percent Hungarian minority (mostly in Transylvania) and a 2.5 percent Roma minority. The economy remains on the internal periphery of the expanded European Union (EU). The …
The Royal Africa Company was an English (British after 1707) slave-trading company. It bought slaves on the west coast of Africa and shipped them across the Atlantic. It then transported goods back to Europe. The company was formed from an earlier group of English traders called the Royal …
The Royal Dutch Shell Company is a multinational petroleum (oil) company that began in the 1800s from a merger of two companies (1907), one of which was English and the other Dutch. Currently Shell is a private company, the second largest oil company, and one of the …
Royalties are compensation paid to a party in exchange for the use of its asset; the transaction is typically called licensing. The most common assets for which royalty payments are made are intellectual property and intangible assets. Examples of intellectual property include trademarks, patents, and copyrighted work such …
Russia is the largest country in the world and a major political player, being a member of the United Nations (UN) Security Council, the Group of Eight (G8) industrialized nations, and the Council of Europe. Main industries of the Russian economy include mining and extractive industries producing coal, …
RWE is a power, natural gas, and water resources company based in Essen, Germany. RWE came into existence in 1898 when a contract was signed for a power plant to be built in Essen to provide power for that city. With over 63,000 employees, it is now the …
The third-largest supermarket chain in North America, Safeway, Inc., is also the 10th largest retailer in the United States. It had, as of January 3, 2009, some 1,739 stores in the United States and Canada. The company was formed by Sam Seelig in April 1912, and was initially …
Wages and salaries are the main forms of payments made to an employee for her/his work or services performed. Salary is a fixed periodical payment paid to an employee for regular labor or services, generally into a bank account, while wages are habitually paid by the day or …
Businesses rely upon increasing market share, sales revenue, and profit, and the responsibility for maintaining and facilitating this growth and profitability is met by salespeople. A sale is the art of providing a product or service to a customer for a real or perceived monetary value, such that …
