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China Advertises Globally for “National Champion” CEOs
The Chinese government recently ran an enormous help-wanted advertisement seeking professional managers for some of its biggest state-controlled companies, a novel but not unprecedented move that apparently reflected unhappiness...
Smaller Chip Breakthroughs Could Mean Bigger IT Profits
In recent years the limits of physics and finance faced by chip makers had loomed so large that experts feared a slowdown in the pace of miniaturization that would...
Downsized Chinese Bank Workers Protest Openly, Fruitlessly
This past summer brought heady days for China’s state-controlled banks. In July, the Agricultural Bank of China made its stock market debut, bringing in $22 billion for the largest...
Japan’s “Net” Right-Wing Inspired by US Tea Party
The demonstrators appeared one day in December, just as children at an elementary school for ethnic Koreans were cleaning up for lunch. The group of about a dozen Japanese...
German Bosses: “No FaceBook” Check on Job Seekers ???
As part of the draft of a law governing workplace privacy, the German government last month proposed placing restrictions on employers who want to use Facebook profiles when recruiting....
Global Pessimism re Sovereign Debt: Morgan Stanley
In a new report, Morgan Stanley analyst Arnaud Marès argues that the sovereign debt crisis is not confined to Europe. “It is a global crisis," he writes, "and it...
European Slowdown Confirmed By Recent Data
A gauge of German investor sentiment fell more than expected this month, while industrial production in the euro zone was flat in July, according to recent reports that reinforced...
EU Ratifies Big Trade Deal w South Korea, First Asian Partner
The European Union agreed Thursday to sign a sweeping new free trade agreement with South Korea — its first with an Asian trade partner — after Italy removed objections...
US-Linked Yuan-Based Private Equity Funds Exploding
TPG, one of the world’s biggest private equity firms, will be teaming up with the municipal governments of two of China’s biggest cities to raise nearly $1.5 billion and...
Yen-Yuan: China Currency “Valuation” Irrelevant for US Trade Deficit
For more than a decade, Beijing has kept the value of the renminbi, also known as the yuan, more or less constant to the dollar, a strategy that critics...


