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...Smart reads David v Goliath Large consumer goods companies are starting to feel the impact of their smaller, more innovative rivals....
...John Stumpf, chairman and chief executive, was put through the wringer in a blistering hearing on Capitol Hill....
...It looks more like the campus of a California tech company, such as Pixar or Google, than the outskirts of an industrial estate in Isleworth.”...
...As the judges started to deliver their findings, Sahlas listened intently for signs of which way the court would go....
...You can sign up here. “Are friends electric? Only mine’s broke down,” once sang Gary Numan about a prostitute service robot of the future....
...Chris Sumner, managing director of Fanuc UK, an industrial robot maker, cites his company’s client training programme....
...The Singaporean state-owned investment company also bought a 10% stake in Markit yesterday....
...(Financial Times) Chinese industrial companies’ profits surge in Q4: “Total profits earned by major Chinese industrial enterprises rose 17.3% from a year earlier in December to Rmb895.2bn ($144bn), according...
...It may be a sign of things to come as China Inc goes global. Related reading China and the US: access denied, FT Chinese companies look west to eastern Europe, beyondbrics...
...of frustrations over protectionist pressures from Capitol Hill....
...There are small signs of the Columbus area’s comparative prosperity....
...The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished down 5.1 per cent at 7997.28 while the Nasdaq Composite Index fell 6.5 per cent to 1,386.42....
...There are no signs of an early recovery in high-margin customers and the expectation is that more airlines will fail....
...Still, at 55.73, it continued to indicate signs of severe distress....
...Industrial production just hit a 10-year low. Housing starts remain incredibly weak....
...The battered stock soared 102.4 per cent to $14.59 after the company said it was well capitalised....
...It is the final investment left from the private equity group’s £300m Fund V, which it raised in 1993....
...BAE Systems has secured a $715m (£357m) order from the US government to supply nearly 1,500 mine-resistant vehicles in a further sign of the company’s push into the country’s lucrative defence market....
...Energy companies bucked the trend, closing broadly unchanged as oil prices rose above $95 a barrel....
...There were signs that traders were shopping for bargains....
...In a sign that US electricity companies are recognising that the Democratic-controlled Congress will seek to impose aggressive climate change initiatives, six companies, including Exelon, one of the largest...
...One train can hide another, goes the famous warning sign at French railway junctions. The same might be said for Indian entrepreneurs....
...Industrial production, after just one more month of mild decline, bottomed out in November....
...Yet, when Jinro, the largest maker of soju, was paralysed by industrial action this week, drinkers immediately started hoarding the rice-based liquor....
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