The working business afternoon for 2 graduating students

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Originally uploaded by Pedroo.

Nicoline sits across and despairs with Microsoft Office. She's been tackling the form functions in order to find a way to create check boxes for a survey she needs to send out. It's all part of her thesis work based on the influence of perceived quality in the car rental industry taking into consideration your customers try your services abroad.

On this side I'm reading through corporate annual reports and newspapers to get to a research topic that's interesting enough to pursue in the context of my Applied Economics class.

In the meantime the TV is on showing Bloomberg. We get access to "on the spot" business updates, the latest quarterly earnings, growth rates and political updates.

The US growth data just came out: a under 50-year tendency 3,1% growth. Shell's profit is up but output is down.

For more, switch on your TV or go to Bloomberg Online.