Financial Outlook For A Troubled Global Industry

A Comparative Review of Global Transportation Energy Outlook

In 2010, the global transport sector consumed about 2,200 million tons of oil equivalent. About 96% of this amount came from oil. It shows that more than 60% of the oil consumed globally goes to the transportation sector. Road transport accounts for the bulk of the transportation energy consumption. The light-duty vehicles (LDVs), including light trucks, light commercial vehicles, and minibuses...

Global Outlook for Ice And

Floating freshwater ice is a key component of cold-regions river and lake systems. Ice creates and controls unique aquatic habitats and related biological productivity and diversity. It also poses major challenges (for example, flood threats) and opportunities (for example, transportation) for communities. Changes in freshwater-ice cover have largely mirrored trends in air temperature, with lar...

Troubled Waters: The Future of Global Fisheries

It is becoming increasingly apparent that the vast blue expanse of ocean—the last frontier—is not as inexhaustible as it once seemed. While we have yet to fully explore the reaches of the sea, technology has granted humans the ability to harvest its wealth. We can now fi sh anywhere, at any depth, for any species. Like the American frontier range’s bison and wolf populations brought to the brin...

Financial policies on firm performance: The U.S. insurance industry before and after the global financial crisis

a r t i c l e i n f o In this study, the advanced panel threshold regression model was used to test whether a marginal threshold value representing optimal financial decisions exists respective to the holding ratio of free cash flow, the debt ratio, and the dividend payout ratio determined by the U.S. life and property–casualty insurance industry. The results indicated that an optimal financial...

The financial outlook for the Social Security Disability Insurance program.