MINORU – SEMUA TENTANGMU

01. Sabtu Malam
02. Merindukanmu
03. Kuingin Kau Tahu
04. Sampai Pada Saat Itu
05. Sejak Kau Tinggalkan
06. Hampa Sendiri
07. Jangan Pernah Berhenti
08. Tak Kan Kulupa
09. Untuk Yang Terindah
10. Sebelum Kau Tidur
11. Silence
12. Semua Tentangmu

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M3Y – CERMIN HATI – MY LOVE STORY

01. Kau Di Hati
02. Kembalikan Cintaku
03. Cermin Hati
04. Raja Playboy
05. Sweetheart
06. Percuma
07. Kumenanti Seorang Kekasih
08. Terlanjur Sayang
09. Adakah Esok
10. Cermin Hati
11. Untitled

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JUWITA – MAYBE YES MAYBE NO

01. Maybe Yes Maybe No
02. Kau
03. Sapi Ucul
04. Ayo Gembira
05. Goyang Gasing
06. Tolong Aku Papa
07. No Comment
08. Katanya
09. Ini Rindu
10. Jaran Kepang
11. Ketahuan….

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INDOCEMENT AWARD 2008 : HADIAH TOTAL RATUSAN JUTA RUPIAH

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Selama ini PT Indocement Tunggal Prakarsa Tbk. (“Indocement”) juga dikenal di masyarakat melalui produknya Semen Tiga Roda. Kepercayaan yang diberikan oleh masyarakat terhadap produk Semen Tiga Roda tercermin dari makin kokohnya posisi Indocement dalam industri semen nasional. Dengan penguasaan pasar mencapai lebih dari 30%, kepercayaan masyarakat telah mendorong perusahaan tumbuh semakin sehat dan berkembang secara signifikan.

Sebagai wujud apresiasi kepada masyarakat luas, Indocement menyelenggarakan sebuah kegiatan berskala nasional, guna mengapresiasi peran serta masyarakat, terutama kalangan kontraktor, pengembang (developer), akademisi, dan praktisi di bidang konstruksi dan bangunan. Merekalah yang selama ini memberikan kontribusi terpenting bagi pertumbuhan dan kinerja perusahaan.

Indocement Awards untuk pertama kali diselenggarakan pada tahun 2008 dan diharapkan dapat menjadi ajang tahunan yang bisa meningkat kualitasnya dari tahun ke tahun. Untuk tahun ini, Indocement Awards terbagi ke dalam lima kategori penghargaan (award) yaitu :
1. Indocement Contractor Award
(DEADLINE : 15 September 2008 cap pos)
Pemenang akan mendapatkan piala, sertifikat dan uang tunai sebesar :
Juara 1 = Rp 50jt ; 2 = Rp 25jt ; 3 = Rp 10jt

2. Indocement Developer Award
(DEADLINE : 15 September 2008 cap pos)
Juara 1 = Rp 50jt ; 2 = Rp 25jt ; 3 = Rp 10jt

3. Semen Tiga Roda Writing Competition Award
(MAHASISWA Diploma dan Strata 1)
(DEADLINE : 15 September 2008 cap pos)
Juara 1 = Rp 15jt ; 2 = Rp 10jt ; 3 = Rp 5jt ; 3 Pemenang Harapan = Rp2jt

4. Semen Tiga Roda Architectural Artwork Competition Award
(DEADLINE : 15 September 2008 cap pos)
Juara 1 = Rp 25jt ; 2 = Rp 15jt ; 3 = Rp 10jt ; 3 Pemenang Harapan = Rp3jt

5. Semen Tiga Roda Concrete Competition Award
(MAHASISWA Diploma dan Strata 1)
(DEADLINE : 15 September 2008 cap pos)
Juara 1 = Rp 15jt ; 2 = Rp 10jt ; 3 = Rp 5jt ; 3 Pemenang Harapan = Rp2jt

Nah Lumayan Tuch … Aku Dulu Pernah Menang di Salah Satu Kategori … lumayan lho … cuma butuh kerja keras aja … tapi sayangnya INDOCEMENT kali ini pengumumannya payah nga dikasih tema besar yang mau ikutan juga bingung mau daftar tapi nga tau Topik or Temanya … yach gue doain beruntung deh kalian yang pada pengen daftar … pemenang harapan aja dapet Rp2 juta lho … hari gini uang segitu lumayan bisa buat bayar kos beli bensin yang aduhai naik … (kasihan rakyat kecil) … pesen aku kalo sekalian daftar kasih kritik ke INDOCEMENT kok pengumumannya nga kaya tahun kemarin ….

Nih aku kasih linknya untuk tau tentang lomba dan seluk beluknya
INDOCEMENTAWARDS 2008

Technical Analysis

The aim of technical analysis is to forecast price trends in future basing on the historical data along with the one of the volume. Technical analysts are sure that any fundamentals and even expectations have affection to exchange rates changing being the factors of the market. Any private investor can have an access to the technical analysis tools in order to compute his or her trading decisions. Though, we can not state that these tools figure out unreliable estimations. Technical analysis has been in use for centuries, that’s why its premises are based on the experience, prolonged observation and can be considered quite reliable. Japan traders started using the technique of candlestick which is still popular in the 18th century, so, it is thought as the oldest one.

The end of the 19th century gave birth to the Dow Theory that used the writings of Charles Dow, who was an editor and co-founder of Dow Jones. Recent decades gave a number of new tools along with the amelioration of the old ones that was caused by the development of computer-based technologies.

There are three suppositions laying at the basis of technical analysis:

Everything should be considered at the market movement;

Price movement has a purpose;

History is to repeat its occasions;

Relying on these statements, technical analysis can be described as the mathematical analyzing of historical data and carrying out price forecasts.

The technical analysis is aimed at the fact that there is a certain direction or a chart pattern for the price movement, but not at finding out the reasons of such movements, like complicated business environment, low earnings and level of management and other fundamental factors. Anyone can gain the profit by posing himself in the trend direction, from the point of view of technical analyst. In the uptrend situation you should consider a buy decision, whether if the downtrend occurs you should try to sell. Technical analysts use different patterns in order to create the a price chart that will suit the future market and the price would follow the pattern.

Forex Trader should consider technical analysis as a key factor for success. Technical analysis basic overview is historical market prices analysis for the purpose of predicting price trends or having an adequate picture of prices movement in future. The concept of Forex Technical Analysis is made up of mathematical equations along with other technical applied towards Forex prices. Deep knowledge of the Forex Technical Analysis techniques is required for profitable dealing with Online Forex Market. The traders using technical analysis invest their money thoughtfully and monitor the daily prices movement precisely that lets them reach the profit. You can choose some basic technical indicators offered at our Forex Technical indicators page among lots of other ones. You should keep in mind that theoretical knowledge added to the thoughtful strategy gives the key to good results and positive trading. You shouldn’t ever use the methods you understand not clearly. There is always a choice from a number of methods offered, so you can use the one you are good at and invest adequately for successful Forex trading.

Non Farm Payroll (NFP)

Non Farm Payroll is a measures overall strength of the labor market and the employment rate. It accounts for about 80% of the workers who contribute to GDP, reflecting all business employees excluding private household employees, general government employees, and employees of nonprofit organizations. The full report also represents estimates on weekly earnings of these employees and the average work week. NFP is very necessary as a general indicator of the health of the economy; usually it affects the dollar in forex trading. NFP rises steadily: since 1990 it has increased from 109,144 in January of 1990 to 135,106 in May of 2006. When NFP rates are lower than expected it causes selling of the US dollar on the belief that it is weakening, and the opposite is true for an unexpectedly high NFP. NFP is published at 8:30am EST on the first Friday of every month. It tends to cause an average move of 124 pips in the EUR/USD.

New Home Sales

This indicator is sometimes referred to as New Singly-Family Houses Sold. Interviews of about owners of about 15,000 or 10,000 builders of selected building projects are the bases for it. It shows the number of newly constructed homes that were sold during the month.

It helps to measure the demand for housing as well as the economic momentum. Buying a house means that people feel pretty comfortable and confident in their own financial position. Actually, this narrow piece of data has a significant effect through the economy, and therefore across your investments and the markets. Tracking economic data such as new home sales helps the investors to gain specific investment ideas and provides them with a broad guidance for managing a portfolio.

The construction of a new home requires a lot of construction jobs, and income of those jobs will be returned into the economy. Homebuilder and the realtor gain their profit when the house is sold. Purchasing a house brings provides buyer with a great variety of consumption opportunities. Furniture and home appliances, such as washers, refrigerators and dryers and are just a few items new homebuyers might purchase. A hundred thousand new households that appear around the country every month multiply the economic “ripple effect”. The market effect of the report is usually insignificant. Existing home sales report, which has a sample data pool four times as large and is released earlier in the month, is much more popular.

Forex – What is it ?

The international currency market Forex is a special kind of the world financial market. Trader’s purpose on the Forex to get profit as the result of foreign currencies purchase and sale. The exchange rates of all currencies being in the market turnover are permanently changing under the action of the demand and supply alteration. The latter is a strong subject to the influence of any important for the human society event in the sphere of economy, politics and nature. Consequently current prices of foreign currencies evaluated for instance in the US dollars fluctuate towards its higher and lower meanings. Using these fluctuations in accordance with a known principle “buy cheaper – sell higher” traders obtain gains. Forex is different in compare to all other sectors of the world financial system thanks to his heightened sensibility to a large and continuously changing number of factors, accessibility to all individual and corporative traders, exclusively high trade turnover which creates an ensured liquidity of traded currencies and the round – the clock business hours which enable traders to deal after normal hours or during national holidays in their country finding markets abroad open.

Just as on any other market the trading on Forex, along with an exclusively high potential profitability, is essentially risk – bearing one. It is possible to gain a success on it only after a certain training including a familiarization with the structure and kinds of Forex, the principles of currencies price formation, the factors affecting prices alterations and trading risks levels, sources of the information necessary to account all those factors, techniques of the analysis and prediction of the market movements as well as with the trading tools and rules. An important role in the process of the preparation for the trading on Forex belongs to the demotrading (that is to trade using a demo-account with some virtual money), which allows to testify all the theoretical knowledge and to obtain a required minimum of the trade experience not being subjected to a material damage.

NAPM: National Association of Purchasing Managers

The NAPM report measures the condition of the manufacturing sector, and more generally the entire economy, by calculating for data about new orders, production, employment, deliveries, and inventory, in descending order of importance. It totalizes the surveys of over 250 companies within twenty-one industries covering all 50 states, and it is published on the first business day of the month at 10 am EST and contains the previous month’s data. A rate over 50% indicates that manufacturing growth, while a rate below 50% means its recession. The NAPM index is also considered to be an early symptom of inflationary pressures. Diffusion indexes are calculated for each of report’s categories (which are new orders, production, employment, inventories, delivery times, prices, export orders, and import orders), with a reading over 50% indicating expansion relative to the prior month, and a sub-50% reading indicating contraction. The NAPM precedes all other economic releases of the month, even the employment report, and the tone of subsequent releases could be guessed basing on the NAPM survey. The bond market’s reaction to the report is often determined by the prices paid and vendor deliveries indexes, especially during periods of inflation concerns. National Association of Purchasing Management (NAPM) monthly releases one of the most popular data series on the U.S. economy, called the Report on Business. Purchasing Managers Index (PMI), which is most cited single feature of the report, presents summary statistics, which indicates whether the manufacturing sector is expanding or contracting. NAPM recently extends its coverage of the U.S. economy in order to represent the condition of U.S. non-manufacturing activity.

A local report, produced by the Houston affiliate of NAPM since January 1995, provided similar insights into the workings of the Houston economy. It is one of 16 regional reports from around the nation. This monthly review of 80 or more local companies presents helpful and well-timed data about a number of economic indicators; besides of it, this survey yields an overall measure of local expansion or contraction. The use of this new tool to analyze the local economy compared to its national counterpart is the subject of this issue. The NAPM has compiled informal and formal reports on U.S. economic conditions since it was established in 1915. Information mostly on price and supply conditions for various commodities had been the main interest of the association for the first 15 years, but in 1930 a committee was formed to expand the reporting basis. Formal structure slowly emerged through the years, and today the panel of 300 members statistically reflects the composition of U.S. manufacturing; they selected by Standard Industrial Classification code and geographical region. Since this year, a separate panel regularly reports on U.S. non-manufacturing industries. Data are collected from member companies on a number of manufacturing-related series regarding production, employment, new orders and export orders, prices, inventories and imports. On the first business day of each month, the results for the previous month are being reported, along with a preview of government series that will be reported later. The NAPM’s reported series are highly correlated with the published government series released weeks or months later. That’s why they require thoroughly studying and testing. For example, NAPM employment correlates well with the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ manufacturing employment report, and NAPM industrial production with the Federal Reserve’s Industrial Production Index.

If accelerations and decelerations are similar, the index is neutral with a value of 50; more decreases than increases puts the value under 50, indicating contraction, and more increases than decreases moves the value of the index above 50, implying expansion. Some indexes have break-even value lower than 50, for example inventory (which has a break-even value near 42) and employment and prices (with a neutral value of 47).

Purchasing Managers Index for manufacturing represents the combination of five of the reported series, which are: inventory (weighted at .10), lead times (.15), employment (.20), production (.25), and new orders (.30). A PMI value below 43.6 is the symptom of recessionary conditions in the United States. A PMI value less than 50 indicates contraction, and above 50 indicates expansion is under way in U.S. As variations in this index can explain about 60 percent of the changes in U.S. gross domestic product, the PMI is sometimes used to draw broader conclusions about the U.S. economy as a whole.

Orders, Sectoral Production and Inventories

It is the results of a survey of 350 purchasing managers on recent trends in orders, production, employment, delivery speeds (vendor performance), and inventories as well as prices for the products they buy. Respondents indicate whether activity in each category has been higher, lower or unchanged from the previous month.

An overall index reading above 50% implies expansion of the manufacturing sector; below 43% implies recession. Growth in other sectors — service and construction — can sustain gains for the whole economy when manufacturing weakness is only moderate. This survey is also considered an indicator of corporate purchasing managers’ plans.

Source: Institute for Supply Management

Frequency: Monthly at 10:00 a.m., first business day of the following month