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...Nokia, the story goes, didn’t have enough software savvy to keep up with visionary Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and design whizz Jony Ive....
...The buildings aren’t especially ritzy....
...Negative rates are not going to happen in America in GREED & fear’s view....
...Executives from four of Formosa Plastics Groups’ listed companies — Formosa Plastics, Nan Ya Plastics, Formosa Petrochemical and Formosa Chemicals & Fibre — have all seen revenues decline recently as the...
...His first stab at private equity was a firm called M&G Capital. It lasted just five years....
...“I think it’s happening much faster than most well-educated business people in America understand,” says veteran investor Jeremy Grantham, co-founder of Boston asset manager GMO....
...Investors cheered the changes, as shares in Newell Rubbermaid rose 4.5 per cent to $21 in midday trading....
...Samsung now has more than 1,000 designers in Seoul, London, San Francisco, Shanghai, Tokyo and Delhi, according to Dennis Miloseski, Samsung’s design studio head in North America....
...Now imagine that most of the world’s plastic nose trading occurs in Switzerland. After being purchased by Toy Corp’s Swiss employees, the raw noses are shipped to the Netherlands for painting....
...“I didn’t want my reputation or my net worth dependent on people I didn’t really know trading securities I didn’t understand in time zones I rarely visited.”...
...a trading background....
...the fact that people don’t say ‘there’s a digger’ but ‘there’s a JCB’.”...
...P&G’s list of partners includes other large corporations, such as food groups ConAgra and General Mills, and rivals, including its Glad brand plastic bag joint venture with Clorox, set up in 2003....
...“But there’s now a lot of negativity baked in so in a way it doesn’t surprise even if something is more negative than consensus.”...
...Options being considered by the maker of power equipment include using providers of derivatives contracts that are based outside the US “so that you don’t have those restrictions”, Mr Fearon said....
...The banking sub-index rose 2.2 per cent, with Chinatrust Financial rising 1.1 per cent to T$18.2, while Formosa Plastics – set to benefit from lower tariffs – climbed 2 per cent to T$67.50....
...Mitsubishi’s five-year-old plastic bag business – a tiny part of its huge trading and investment empire – is an example of how China is playing a more central role in the operations of some of Japan’s biggest...
...He had a collection of plastic superheroes in his office....
...Then, after applying an intensive mask to my hair, I am manoeuvred into position under the plastic halo....
...Shareholder primacy, the idea that a corporation’s role is to maximise shareholder wealth above all else, has its roots in a 1919 Michigan Supreme Court case, Dodge v. Ford Motor Co....
...With nearly $117bn in revenues last year and 138,000 employees based in 67 countries, Cargill also ranks as America’s biggest privately owned company....
...“Early in my career, I was in a job that wasn’t very interesting and I said to my parents: ‘I don’t love this, I think I might quit.’ And they said: ‘Are you kidding, you can’t quit!...
...Hon Hai Industries gained 3.2 per cent to T$129.50, while Cathay Financial Holdings rose 3 per cent to T$50.20. Nan Ya Plastics gained 4.3 per cent to T$49.30....
...At Sinano Sangyo, a small supplier of industrial plastics based in southern Tokyo, a sparkling metal worktop by the entrance provides a telltale sign....
...Management doesn’t want to demoralise staff.” But by about 6pm on Sunday September 14, the cat was out of the bag: the Barclays deal had run into problems and Bank of America had gone cold....
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