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...In response to “The loneliness of Mike Pence”:“While some corporations may revel in Biden’s industrial policy and the funds that it brings, genuine capitalists have no more use for this than they do for...
...A glut of central bank announcements next week looks sure to revive the turmoil. It may be a difficult time to be a forex analyst, but it looks like a brilliant moment to be a Japanese robot....
...Yet, as Charles Fishman wrote in The Wal-Mart Effect in 2006, Walmart derives all of its impact from us, “from our willingness to open our wallets, just a few dollars at a time . . ....
...Last year, Tesla promised to store information collected in China in local data centres, a significant blow to its global data gathering efforts critical to research and development....
...Espen Barth Eide, a former Labour foreign minister told the Financial Times after a centre-left victory for Norway’s Jonas Gahr Store yesterday....
...Refusal to acknowledge its power may just be its secret to success....
...foreign country’s laws, which may allow its acquisition by that country’s government”....
...As experts from the Rand Corporation noted in a testimony to the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission in 2019 “official propaganda has relentlessly promoted Xi in a manner that many have compared...
...“With public market values falling so much, a buyer needs to determine whether the valuation represents the new normal or whether there is going to be a V-shaped recovery in terms of earnings or valuation...
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on December 16, 2020. ©2020 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...From April onwards foreign banks can apply to take full control in any joint ventures they are a part of....
...Negative rates may be necessary to help support the flow of credit to non-financial corporations. But much of the heavy lifting will have to be done by fiscal policy....
...Idexx said in October that the animal health market had experienced a “V-shaped recovery”....
...First, higher wages can make employees more productive — Wal-Mart’s recent wage raises were justified on these grounds....
...As a result, consumers are left with too many options to choose from. “This is typical of Japan Inc....
...VinMart stores, for example, might make use of “smart cameras” to track how much time customers stay in a given section of the store....
...The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act was also once just an obscure statute, until companies such as Wal Mart started to face nine figure compliance costs....
...Instead, he said the “biggest stumbling block to an approach like this” would likely be retailers like Wal-Mart....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on August 22 2018. ©2018 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...climate deal exit) Bob Iger, Chairman and CEO, The Walt Disney Company (left after Paris climate deal exit) Rich Lesser, President and CEO, Boston Consulting Group Doug McMillon, President and CEO, Wal-Mart...
...Now, however, they may have a chance to get even richer by — God forbid — paying more in corporate taxes....
...and a chain of company stores selling products built in China....
...We believe Amazon may also pursue an even smaller store footprint than WFM’s, which average 39k sqft....
...Yet their biggest challenge may come from a crop of domestic names that are proving more able to compete on their home turf....
...Additional reporting by Nikkei staff writers Kosuke Takami, Masayuki Yuda and Mitsuru Obe A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on December 6. ©2017 Nikkei Inc....
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