MSL | International Equities - Round 1

• Every team has a budget of $2,00,000 at the beginning.
• There are 6 companies in which you can invest your amount depending upon the news and rumors given.
• You cannot invest more than 60% of the budget in one stock at a time. You need to invest in at least 2 stocks in each round.
• The first round only includes buying of shares. Short selling of shares is not allowed.
• The team with the maximum profit at the end of both the rounds is the winner.

COMPANIES

1. Toyota (Automobile) - $30
2. Microsoft (Technology) - $40
3. JP Morgan (Banking & Finance) - $80
4. Boeing (Aviation)- $60
5. Amazon (E-commerce) - $40             
6. Nike (Apparel & Accessories)- $90

NEWS 

• U.S. business spending plans gauge flat in January: A gauge of business investment plans was unexpectedly flat in January, suggesting a slowdown in economic growth after a brisk expansion over the last two quarters even as Boeing reported a surge in aircraft orders last month. Boeing received 224 aircraft orders in November, sharply up from only 46 in October.
• Accenture and Microsoft launch new hybrid cloud platform to accelerate enterprise-wide adoption: Accenture and Microsoft Corp. have expanded their long-standing strategic alliance with the introduction of the Accenture Hybrid Cloud Solution for Microsoft Azure, a powerful hybrid cloud platform designed to bring new capabilities, economics and innovation to the enterprise. Working with Avanade, the companies are co-funding and co-engineering this platform with new hybrid cloud technologies and services to help enterprises build and manage enterprise-wide cloud infrastructure and applications.
• Amazon just launched PRIME NOW, a standalone app that delivers things in 1 hr in NYC: It is available to prime subscribers in region of Manhattan. It has over 10 million new customers. It is a Positive sign for future growth as its prime members who get unlimited two- day shipping for $99 a year to spend almost twice as much as non prime members.
• Google Inc Enhances Shopping Feature To Counter Amazon: Google Inc has been nurturing a dream of becoming a giant force in e-commerce for a long time, and it may be coming closer to it. To penetrate deeper into e-commerce, the internet giant plans to enhance Google Shopping to make it more like Amazon.com, Inc.
• Toyota to Introduce World's First Predictive Safety Cruise Control System: Toyota is to introduce the world’s first predictive cruise control system, Intelligent Adaptive Cruise Control, capable of foreseeing and automatically reacting to other vehicles ‘cutting-in’ to the equipped vehicle’s lane.
• Toyota fined $70m by US for failure to report deaths: Japanese carmaker Toyota has been fined a record $70m (£46.4m) by US regulators for failing to report deaths and injuries to authorities. It is the largest civil penalty to date levied against a carmaker by the US government.
• After its FIFA World Cup marketing campaigning fuelled profit and sales, 4th quarter net income of NIKE Inc., the world's largest sporting goods maker, rose 23% y-o-y comprehensively beating the analysts' estimates. The stock has already outperformed the S&P 500 Index this year.
• Despite a sub par growth in net income, falling revenues and a declining pattern of EPS over the last year, some street experts rate JP Morgan in BUY category based on the convergence of positive investment measures by the company and attractive valuation levels.

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