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...Ford dominates the North American pick-up market so its chief executive was curious to look at the competition....
...The US heavy machinery maker sidestepped economic uncertainty, rising raw material costs and supply chain issues to deliver a blowout quarter of earnings on Thursday....
...Republican Senator Josh Hawley accused Apple of being so dependent on China that it can no longer express basic American values....
...Many companies adopted them as Americans were slow to return to the workforce following the disruption of the coronavirus pandemic....
...During my stay there were seven other guests (the large North American operations might have five times that number)....
...Temple Grandin, the American animal husbandry pioneer, recounts how one group of pigs in Illinois learnt to unscrew the bolts holding the pen divider to the wall....
...By my calculations, you could set up a simple gun-making shop with less than $100,000 in (used) machinery. With even moderate care, a gun can be perfectly functional for decades....
...But as Walmart charts its American dream elsewhere, the Issa brothers and TDR have a chance to rewrite the US-born growth strategy that Asda has struggled to translate in the UK....
...Adding to that laundry list, a July internal review by the bank into its involvement in creating supply chain finance investment funds with SoftBank-backed Greensill resulted in the Japanese conglomerate...
...That was far higher than the British at 21 per cent or the Chinese at 15 per cent, and topped the Americans at 36 per cent....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on May 5 2021. ©2021 Nikkei Inc....
...Nestlé is selling its languishing North American water business, while Danone is reviewing both product lines and brands....
...All said, watch out for Japan Inc....
...“Even in ordinary times, food insecurity in American households is an important problem, and unfortunately Covid-19 is amplifying that stress,” Bezos said on Instagram....
...The greatest directors, argues the American film-maker and screenwriter Paul Schrader, know how to wield the “scalpel of boredom”....
...Heifei Risever Machinery was founded by Mr Lai’s parents in Anhui province in 2001....
...Separately, American Electric Power this month said it would retire a massive 1,300-megawatt unit at its power plant in Rockport, Indiana, to settle a lawsuit over air pollution....
...Japan Inc: corporate governance battle The stage is set for a rare hostile takeover drama in Japan as Yoshiaki Murakami (below) –– the country’s most notorious shareholder activist –– sets his eyes on a...
...Mr Bonfield added that the North American construction market continued to be “very strong” and he did not expect any change to that picture in the US....
...Diana Singer, president of the American Society of Jewelry Historians, argues that ever-bigger and flashier rings speak to athletes’ changing status in society....
...As the US and China fire the opening shots of a trade war, tech-savvy American millennials are already being caught in the crossfire....
...Sure, you may want to buy cheap batteries, beer and laundry liquid on Bezos' retail hive-mind, but clothing with social status?...
...Harbin Power Equipment and Dongfang Electrical Machinery are now taking business off their European and US rivals in other countries....
...The heavy machinery maker also sharply increased its full-year earnings outlook to $9.75 to $10.75 per share, compared to the $7.75 to $8.75 a share range it gave just three months ago....
...But attempts to sway them have been complicated by the newcomers’ unfamiliarity with the machinery of policymaking. But perhaps the thorniest problem has been Mr Trump’s off-the-cuff unpredictability....
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