Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin of Russia has suggested merging Ukraine’s national energy company with the Russian gas giant Gazprom,
a move that, if approved in Kiev, would put Ukraine’s strategic network of gas pipelines under Moscow’s control.
A number of big and small companies — including eBay’s PayPal unit, Intuit, VeriFone and Square — are creating innovative ways
for individuals to avoid cash and checks and settle all debts, public and private, using their cellphones.
The Conservatives and Liberals have formed a coalition they call a ‘new kind of politics’ – but not new enough to represent all of the United Kingdom.
Great Britain has been transfixed by an election last Thursday that resulted in no clear winner.
Could it be that banker bonuses and other pay for performance incentives are not just ineffectual, but could actually breed bad performance?
In this fascinating video of Dan Pink’s talk on the Surprising Science of Motivation from a TED event in Oxford, you can find out why the answer is yes.[br]
The nation’s five largest banks – JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Citigroup and Wells Fargo – which dominate the derivatives business,
have dispatched trade groups, paid lobbyists and their own executives to lobby Washington in full force …
Ever since computerized trading became dominant in the nation’s stock markets in recent years,
market experts have been warning that the lack of consistent rules among exchanges and the increasing complexity and speed of computer trading systems could destabilize markets.
It seems things are continuing to move along nicely in Rosario, Argentina, where our friend / colleague / and devoted reader Sr. Dr. Claudio Pairoba lives,
because we just received his excellent translation into Spanish [br]
As Congress prepares to hold hearings into the April 20 explosion that sank the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, a billion-dollar question is bobbing on the oil-slicked waves: Whose fault is it?
So far, BP, the British company that leased the deepwater rig, has commanded the spotlight.
Even as they struggle to understand the origins and particulars of Thursday’s chaos,
regulators, traders and academics seem to agree the gist of the solution is that markets need uniform rules for intervening when a stock goes into free fall.
Even as they struggle to understand the origins and particulars of Thursday’s chaos,
Cable news anchors and financial Web sites struggled to keep up as the Dow fell nearly 1,000 points and then mostly rebounded in a matter of minutes Thursday afternoon …
Web sites like Bloomberg.com were hammered by traffic, causing technical problems, though the company’s Bloomberg terminals remained up and running …
