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- Raise Your Prices
- "Management must raise prices, raise them a lot, and raise them frequently." Business writer George Stalk writes this eye-catching sentence in a recent blog on Harvard Business. He believes the 12-month run-up we've seen in commodity prices (ethanol +47 percent, wheat +40 percent) will continue to rise in the...
- Blog posts 2008-05-20
- "Crunch" Time
- Feel like you're running on an economic hamster wheel, powering an economy that benefits only a relative few? Jared Bernstein's "Crunch" is for you. So says reviewer Harry Hurt III in A Rock, A Hard Place and an Exit Strategy. Hurt walks through Bernstein's discussion...
- Blog posts 2008-05-19
- When Doing Business in China and India, Nothing Is Guaranteed
- Can you make money in India and China? That's the central question of Part II of "Billions of Entrepreneurs." The answer: maybe. Author Tarun Khanna shows that companies have made money in both countries, but that foreign firms in particular have found profits challenging. In India, local...
- Blog posts 2008-03-25
- Inflation + Slowdown = Pricing Dilemma for Food Makers
- As commodity costs have soared, analysts have been pleading with Kraft Foods to raise its retail prices. But the packaged-food giant has hesitated, worried that higher prices would send consumers scurrying to discount brands. Such is the dilemma created when inflation hits during an economic slowdown. ...
- Blog posts 2008-03-05
- The Causes of Our Economic Woes: an Alternative View
- The stock market fell and then rose nearly three hundred points in what had to have been a queasy day for investors. The turmoil in the markets and concerns about the economy are casting a shadow over an atypically gloomy meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos. The roots...
- Blog posts 2008-01-23
- Top 10 Business Stories of 2007 and What We Had to Say
- We're going to see a lot of 2007 wrap-up articles and blogs over the next couple of weeks (like our recently posted Best Productivity Tips of 2007) not to mention predictions for 2008. It's what you do in December, and we embrace it. BusinessWeek churned out a list of the...
- Blog posts 2007-12-17
- Why Indian CEOs Are in Great Demand
- News that Vikram Pandit will be the new chief executive officer of Citigroup, joining other Indians such as Pepsi's Indra Nooyi at the top of major U.S. corporations, comes at the same time that we learn that Tata Motors may buy Jaguar from Ford Motor. The Indians...
- Blog posts 2007-12-17
- Top 10 Misconceptions about Doing Business in China
- Think you know the basics of the business relationship between China and the U.S.? From safety recalls to the trade imbalance, issues surrounding the two countries' business dealings have been in the news a lot lately. Nonetheless, the Kiplinger Business Resource Center has an eye-opening article dispelling ten common misconceptions...
- Blog posts 2007-12-14
- Dirty China Could Lead to Clean Profits
- China has the green, it's just not green... yet... so says the latest from Forbes. There are two inconvenient truths that America faces: 1. China holds $1.3 trillion in foreign exchange reserves, most of which are U.S. Treasury Bonds, and 2. About 25% of the particulate matter in the Los...
- Blog posts 2007-12-04
- As Fed Prepares to Meet, All Eyes on... Greenspan?
- Perhaps you've been hearing a bit about Alan Greenspan's new book lately? The former Fed Chairman has been out flogging his memoir, "The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World," and from the media reaction we think sales should be alright. Greenspan was on 60 Minutes last night and...
- Blog posts 2007-09-17
- Economy Grows While Consumer Spending Stalls
- Energy prices continue to soar, the stock market's seen better days and the housing market leaves much to be desired. Is it really wise to get excited over a 3.4 percent growth in the GDP from the first to second quarter? Maybe not. Bloomberg.com attributes the growth...
- Blog posts 2007-07-27
- The Dollar Falls and Volkswagen Looks West
- Who would've thought a Fortune Global 500 company would be looking at the United States as a low-cost manufacturing site? But with the dollar's recent dismal performance on foreign exchange markets, Volkswagen finds it hard to justify importing to the U.S. market. The logical solution is either to start building...
- Blog posts 2007-07-09
- Get Your International Business Terms Right
- Don't make the mistake of calling a company global when it's really just international -- or even worse, saying a company is multinational when it's really transnational! For convenience, it's common to use the umbrella term international business to describe business activities that extend past the borders of a company's...
- Blog posts 2007-06-07
- Daily Dispatch: Ford, Dow Jones, Dell, Incomes Decline
- For the seventh straight month, Ford Motor Company's sales dropped in May, largely because of a 24 percent decline in sales to rental car companies and a 12 percent slide in sales of F-series pickup trucks. The F-series, the nation's best-selling vehicle, has also shown a seven-month decline...
- Blog posts 2007-06-01
- BNET Daily Dispatch: Alltel, IBM, EMI, and China - Blackstone
- The largest buyout deal in telecommunications history was agreed upon last night when Alltel accepted a $27.5 acquisition offer from a consortium of private equity firms, including the Texas Pacific Group and Goldman Sachs' private equity branch. Alltel chief executive Scott Ford said the buyout "delivers substantial and...
- Blog posts 2007-05-21
- RBA May Hold Rates in Dec: Economists
- The Reserve Bank of Australia RBA has left its options open for a pause in rate rises in December, following a guarded upgrading of its economic outlook, economists say.In its quarterly statement on monetary policy on Friday, the central bank said that at 3.5 per cent the overnight cash...
- News items 2009-11-06
- Calpers Knew in 2003 About Forex Trading Hits: Report
- (Reuters) - California Public Employees' Retirement System, knew it was paying uncompetitive rates on foreign-exchange trades as early as 2003, the Wall Street Journal said, citing a consultant who advised the largest U.S. public pension fund.Last month, California's attorney general sued State Street Corp STT, contending that State Street Bank...
- News items 2009-11-06
- Sept Factory Gate Inflation Highest Since April
- LONDON (Reuters UK) - Factory gate inflation unexpectedly turned positive for the first time in five months, with almost all sectors contributing to the rise, official data showed on Friday.The Office for National Statistics said non seasonally adjusted output prices rose 0.5 percent on the month in September, taking the...
- News items 2009-10-09
- Fed's Bullard: Don't Underestimate Inflation Risk
- By Emily KaiserST. LOUIS (Reuters) - There may not be as much slack in the U.S. economy as many forecasters believe, which means medium-term inflation risks could be higher, a Federal Reserve official said on Sunday.In a presentation to an economics conference, St. Louis Federal Reserve President James Bullard said...
- News items 2009-10-11
- Investors weigh risks of inflation and deflation
- Rising gold prices and falling government bond yields reflect investors' uncertainty over whether inflation or deflation is the threat to fear for price stability. This week's data should provide fuel for both sides of that debate.UK inflation data for September, due out tomorrow, should show a headline consumer prices...
- News items 2009-10-11
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