Tuesday, January 31, 2012

apple Picks John Browett, European electronics retailer, Dixons' CEO.

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Apple picked a new boss of retail and it is a surpise.  They picked the head of Britain's Dixons's: a buy your box heare kind of fir...

Take Your Losses Upfront: Banco Santander Takes a 3.1 Billion Euro Hit

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Profits Tumble at Banco Santander 1/31/201 Spain's largest bank, Banco Santander, announced that its profits were down by 98% in the f...
Saturday, January 14, 2012

Innovation Is Alive and Well at Milliken

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Kodak, once a big U.S. innovators is in a terminal decline.  John Bussey in this 1/12/2012 Wall Street Journal video shows what textile mak...
Wednesday, December 28, 2011

WSJ Video: Google, KKR Set California Solar Deal

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Wall Street Journal reporters discuss Google Inc. and KKR & Co. Inc. investing jointly in a California solar-power project (12/20/2011):...
Sunday, November 20, 2011

Nov 13 2011: Boeing Hits it Big at the Dubai Air Show.

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Andrew Parker reports from the Dubai airshow that Boeing has won its largest order (estimated at $26bn) in its 95 year history. (The video ...

Entrepreneurs Come in Many Shapes, Especially in the Emerging Economies.

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In the U.S., eighty percent of job growth comes from small and medium sized businesses.  Forty years ago, when Antoine van Agtmael coined th...
Thursday, November 17, 2011

The Birth of Arbitrage

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Arbitrage is the simultaneous buying and selling of an asset in two separate markets to exploit a price difference. The Benchmarks Aren...
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The Birth of a New Acronym

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I know of an agency in Washington that thought its status diminished by having a FLA, so it used a TLA instead. ("What's that?...
Monday, October 31, 2011

Nabors CEO Eugene Isenberg's $100 Million Severance-Type Paymen

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MarketWatch asks "Is Shareholder Capitalism Working?"  MarketWatch columnist David Weidner and Mean Street host Evan Newmark discu...
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