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One of the attractive features of financial assets is linked to their ability to increase or preserve their buyers wealth. Soaring prices provoke investors euphoria, their decline - paralysis. In 2010 capital in the USA has moved from the stock market to the bonds market that directly reflects low inflation expectations and current low interest rates. High demand on government securities is due to new economic growth deceleration expectations.

The article contains a thorough analysis of a variety of causes that have provoked the present financial crisis now spreading globally. Special attention is drawn to specific factors of the crisis origin and sudden expansion. The article emphasizes some peculiar features of the financial crisis progress in emerging economies. Underlined are particularities of concepts of and run through the financial markets adjustments. The author comes to the conclusion about assets overvaluing and extreme cyclical factors susceptibility in the majority of developing countries.

The article contains a thorough analysis of the world financial derivatives market with special reference to theoretical issues. It puts forward and traces Black-Scholes options valuation model. The author underlines particularities of advanced practical derivatives price calculation, using the math formula of the Nobel Prize winners. Some practical features of the concept and its implementation within notorious Long-Term Capital Management hedge fund are emphasized.

The article contains thorough analysis of major ecological and social problems that face the mankind now. The progress in their solution is traced. Some specific features of the sustainable development concept and its implementation on the global scale are emphasized. Particular features of fast development of China and India are outlined, which are quickly transforming into world powers. The state of the global meat industry, emerging nanotechnology market.and issues of biofuel consumption are considered.

The article contains a thorough analysis of various approaches to calculating the balance of payments. The retrospective evolution of scientific views on the problem of evening up the balance of payments is traced. The monetarist approach to the balance of payments adjustment is emphasized. The author underlines the IMF significant role in developing the balance of payments calculation methodology.

The paper proposes a quasi-geostrophic baroclinic model of Jupiter's Great Red Spot as a localized eddy formation in a continuously stratified rotating atmosphere under the action of a horizontal shear flow in the f-plane approximation. On the basis of the theory of ellipsoidal vortices, an analytical relationship is obtained between the geometric dimensions of the vortex, the potential vorticity of the vortex core, and the characteristics of the background flow. Measurements of a number of characteristics of both the vortex and the background current in the Voyager 1 (1979), Galileo (1996), and Cassini (2000) missions were used. Based on the theory, the vertical size of the Jupiter's Great Red Spot was calculated, which turned out to be close to the same characteristic measured in the Voyager 1 (1979) mission. Based on the theory, an e-stimate of the vertical size of the Great Red Spot of Jupiter was obtained, which is consistent with the e-xperimental data of the Voyager 1 mission (1979).