The optimism in the company of the technology region Karlsruhe risen 2013 economic survey of the IHK Karlsruhe in the early summer in the early summer for the second time in a row. So, 30 percent expect better business than 2012 and 55 percent at least equal good business in the current year. However, clearly, the number of pessimists fell by 24 per cent in the autumn of last year to 15 percent. “If 85 percent of the Member companies for the coming months expect at least equal good business, which is a clear proof of the high competitiveness of the regional economy”, Chamber of Commerce President Wolfgang Grenke says. The confidence is reflected as well in the employment situation. More than every fifth company is planning more new hires. In addition, nine out of ten companies refer to their current business situation as good or are satisfied. The visible in the autumn of last year caution in assessing the future business development has again changed in confidence in the average of all sectors of the economy.

In the Early summer 2013 89 percent of businesses assess their current business situation as good or satisfactory. That would almost to the beginning of the year with 91 percent. According to report a few from a decline in business activity. Their share is 11 percent, compared with nine per cent of the previous economic survey. Most optimistic look business-related service providers in the future. The confidence prevails also in the industrial, construction and wholesale trade. However, the retail shows a strongly divergent expectations. Both of the skeptics and the proportion of optimists has increased, which currently outweigh the critical expectations.

Given the improved business prospects employment should tighten something in the coming months. The percentage of companies that want to hire additional employees is increased three percentage points to 21 percent. With a possible reduction in staff, 13 percent of the company, three percentage points less than at the beginning of the year sign up. Two-thirds of the operations plan, their staff to keep constant. The regional service companies report the highest compared to the other sectors of the economy need for personnel.

North Dakota has changed. The entire United States has changed. Dallas, 29.11.2013. Quiet villages, in which prevailed previously yawning emptiness, become boom regions, where oil and gas is encouraged. What we are seeing in the United States, is a revolution,”confirmed Christophe de Margerie, the head of the French energy group total.

The fracking method caused an oil rush, which will have a long-term impact on the whole world. This oil rush makes the United States already by 2015 the world’s leading oil producers ahead of Saudi Arabia and Russia. This shift in the global energy markets, will have consequences also for Europe. The increased supply in the United States is namely followed by a rapid decline, especially for gas. The prices in the United States are currently at one-third of the European import prices and one-fifth of Japanese prices. Electricity is cheaper, unlike in Europe.

A significant shift in the balance of power is imminent: experts fear the exodus of entire industries in the United States. The German chemicals group BASF has already invested in new production facilities in the United States. The European industry in a tight spot, she could not keep the equipment my experts. In addition she will lose significant market share in the next few years. Claudia Kamfert, energy expert of the German Institute for economic research (DIW) said, however, warnings are exaggerated. In many industries, the energy costs in the weight fell. The more efficiently a company work, the less worried must worry it about high electricity costs. A political debate about fracking or not fracking has been formed in Europe. While Britain wants to promote the technology quickly, France has itself, however, decide that Germany stands between enthusiasm and anxiety: Union and SPD agreed a moratorium on the fracking in the coalition negotiations. It is a technology with significant potential risk.” In Europe, the occurrences are manageable anyway. The theme is also for investors such as the AMTEX GmbH the current power shift relevant. Benefit the United States, benefit also investors: get this for contributed capital: shares of the conveyors and the fossil fuels in the ground. The ownership of the assets entered in the County Court, the equivalent of the German land register Office, binding. It participates so obtained gas and oil revenues in the United States. Also in relation to the subsidised commodity quantities AMTEX provides full transparency its investors: investors can check the results of their source in the Internet at any time. For more information,