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Preparing Chinas yuan for the world stage (17 November 02:49) |
| President Barack Obama's visit to China this week has increased the spotlight on one of the top hot-button issues in U.S.-China relations: revaluing the Chinese currency. |
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New ETF is a way into smaller China (11 November 11:06) |
| If Burton Malkiel, author of the famous "A Random Walk Down Wall Street" and Princeton University economist, is right, the majority of U.S. investors aren't profiting enough from China's rap... |
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Chinas record debt has economists worried (11 November 08:06) |
| In a world still awash in economic worry, China has stood apart as the one country that has come through the global slump with only the briefest of hiccups. |
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French bankers bid adieu to guaranteed bonuses (06 November 12:14) |
| Banks in France, including non-French ones, will no longer be allowed to offer guaranteed bonuses to traders and other staff under new rules announced Nov. 5. The only exception is for signi... |
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Disney comes to China (04 November 08:29) |
| China's announcement on Wednesday that Walt Disney could go ahead with its long-planned theme park in Shanghai raised a few eyebrows in Hong Kong. That's because Disney's first foray into th... |
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Tax-free Champagne anyone (29 October 11:47) |
| Not even Franz Kafka could have dreamed this one up. |
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Forget China Brazils a cheaper investment (27 October 10:25) |
| Brazil has a lot of reasons to celebrate these days. It recently won the competition to host the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, as well as the 2014 World Cup. |
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Its Chinas world We just live in it (08 October 06:34) |
| You wouldn't think the men who run the oil-rich country of Nigeria would have much spring in their step these days. The nation is plagued by a never-ending guerrilla war, one that has trimme... |
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Why Obama is taxing Chinese tires (08 October 06:25) |
| "No, we are not in a trade war," chief White House economist Lawrence Summers declared when I raised the prospect with him two days after the Beijing regime lobbed U.S. auto parts and chicke... |
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Inside the Afghan drug war (30 September 09:19) |
| Afghanistan's drug economy is as pervasive as its poppy fields. Photographs by Benjamin Lowy |
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The Good Soldiers - Book review (30 September 09:15) |
| Let me be direct. "The Good Soldiers" by David Finkel (Sarah Crichton Books/FSG) is the most honest, most painful, and most brilliantly rendered account of modern war I've ever read. I got n... |
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Russian love for the NBA (26 September 12:41) |
| Read full story for latest details. |
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Chinese car market - both boon and headache (24 September 09:09) |
| With Western markets still struggling to escape the effects of the recession, automakers are increasingly focusing their attention on China -- and rubbing their hands with glee. Car sales in... |
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The capitalist who loves North Korea (15 September 06:53) |
| James Kim, an American businessman turned educator, once sat in the very last place that anyone in the world would wish to be: a cold, dank prison cell in Pyongyang, the godforsaken capital ... |
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Travel in style to developing countries (11 September 08:50) |
| When pharmaceuticals giant GlaxoSmithKline made a big push to build its business in the developing world last year, it enlisted Abbas Hussain, a native of Madras, India, to run the new ventu... |
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The new king of luxury (02 September 07:08) |
| It's easy to envy the charmed life of François-Henri Pinault. |
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Investing in foreign currency (31 August 07:25) |
| Investing in currencies is tricky for the average person. The traditional alternative, buying foreign stocks, doesn't offer the diversification of currency investing because such stocks are ... |
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Global fast food comes to America (27 August 12:04) |
| Recession or not, international restaurant concepts are fanning out in the world's hungriest fast-food market. |
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Rio Tinto - China strikes back (24 August 09:18) |
| After officials in Beijing last month arrested four Rio Tinto executives for allegedly stealing secrets from Chinese steel companies, China took a brutal public relations beating internation... |
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Spas take off in Asia (21 August 07:43) |
| Yue-Sai Kan -- one of the most recognizable women in China with a cosmetics empire and her own TV show -- often needs to get away from the grueling pressures and polluted skies of Shanghai a... |
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Argentinas cattle crisis (11 August 08:24) |
| Around these parts, Americans anxiously watch our favorite summer economic indicator -- the price of gasoline -- to get a sense of where the economy may be headed. But in Argentina, locals a... |
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Chinas amazing new bullet train (06 August 07:14) |
| When lunch break comes at the construction site between Shanghai and Suzhou in eastern China, Xi Tong-li and his fellow laborers bolt for some nearby trees and the merciful slivers of shade ... |
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Can Jordan build on its relative success (05 August 08:31) |
| "We live in a bad neighborhood," one of King Abdullah's top advisors is telling me. "Sometimes, no matter how hard we try or how much progress we make, political events in this part of the w... |
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Adventurous mutual funds for uncertain times (04 August 07:39) |
| Today's market is particularly tough for individual investors. Stocks have been wildly volatile, bonds offer low yields, and the experts caution that even when the economy recovers, growth w... |
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Washington learns to treat China with care (30 July 12:10) |
| America met with its lead banker this week and was forced to answer plenty of tough questions about its spending habits Attention should be given to the fiscal deficit Chinas finance ministe... |
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Curbing a yen for Japanese stocks (29 July 12:27) |
| Investors have been putting more money into Japanese equity funds than theyve been taking out for four straight weeks according to fund flow tracker EPFR The streak is the longest since the ... |
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Going global with emerging markets (16 July 08:27) |
| The numbers are in, confirming what many already suspected: Emerging markets are the flavor of the month (or at least the quarter). |
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McDonald's wins with global palates (16 July 02:20) |
| While the latest headlines from McDonald's may be distinctly American -- its $4 Angus Burger recently debuted with much fanfare -- it's abroad and not at home that McDonald's has been doing ... |
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McDonalds wins with global palates (16 July 02:20) |
| While the latest headlines from McDonalds may be distinctly American -- its $4 Angus Burger recently debuted with much fanfare -- its abroad and not at home that McDonalds has been doing its... |
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Online gambling for the Facebook generation (16 July 02:14) |
| If your favorite book happens to be Seabiscuit, you already know the answer to the following question: What are the three legal forms of online gambling in the United States? |
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Meet Shell's new CEO (16 July 01:57) |
| Royal Dutch Shell this year has toppled Exxon Mobil from the top of the list of Fortune Global 500 companies, just as the Dutch oil company gets a new CEO. Peter Voser, 50, is a Swiss financ... |
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How Dr. Z plans to fix Mercedes (16 July 01:50) |
| How easy should it be to climb into the back of a Mercedes-Benz wearing ski boots? And how important is it for the quality image of the brand that you can trample with those boots on the car... |
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Gearing up on Honda stock (16 July 01:46) |
| With consumer spending weak and America's auto industry in shambles, automakers sure don't hold a lot of investment appeal these days. |
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How Facebook employees can cash out (14 July 12:22) |
| The Russian investment company Digital Sky Technologies has begun a tender offer to purchase up to $100 million of common stock from current and former Facebook employees, according to sourc... |
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China on the march, again (08 July 09:12) |
| As the U.S. stock market tosses and turns, sustainable growth -- both in corporate profits and economic output -- seems far off. In China, on the other hand, recovery already seems to be a r... |
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G-20 winners and losers (03 April 03:40) |
| How was the G-20 summit in London? "We did OK," said President Barack Obama. "I go back home satisfied," said Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. "We'd never thought we'd obtain such broad... |
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At Davos, an upside-down world (29 January 11:37) |
| At last year's gathering of the world's elite at this Alpine ski resort, the tone was one of unbridled optimism. CEOs, government leaders and heads of NGOs had the luxury to discuss the rapi... |
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At Davos an upside-down world (29 January 11:37) |
| At last years gathering of the worlds elite at this Alpine ski resort the tone was one of unbridled optimism CEOs government leaders and heads of NGOs had the luxury to discuss the rapid gro... |
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The man who outfoxed the market (27 January 04:53) |
| These are brutally difficult times for automakers worldwide, but as crises go, this one could be a lot worse for Wendelin Wiedeking, Porsche's chief executive for the past 16 years. |
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India scandal wont spark reforms (24 January 01:29) |
| When a scandal the size of Indias Satyam emerges the flurry of reaction gives the appearance of major change in the works B Ramalinga Raju who has admitted to inflating his software companys... |
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India scandal won't spark reforms (24 January 01:04) |
| When a scandal the size of India's Satyam emerges, the flurry of reaction gives the appearance of major change in the works. B. Ramalinga Raju, who has admitted to inflating his software com... |
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A CEO masters micro-credit (12 January 04:34) |
| Most retired CEOs don't really retire. They serve on boards, teach at business schools, fund charities. Percy Barnevik's retirement plans are more ambitious: He intends to lift millions of p... |
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Future of wireless is Down Under (05 January 11:33) |
| Move over, Korea and Japan. Australia may soon be the envy of the world when it comes to advanced wireless networks and services. |
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How to sell in China (18 December 08:14) |
| A few years ago, publishing and information-services company Wolters Kluwer decided to try selling in China, figuring the country's growing business community would make it a ripe market for... |
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Iceland: The country that became a hedge fund (04 December 09:29) |
| On a gloomy morning in early August, more than a month before Wall Street and the world's financial system seized up, a senior aide to Iceland's Prime Minister paid a visit to the Russian em... |
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Iceland The country that became a hedge fund (04 December 09:29) |
| On a gloomy morning in early August more than a month before Wall Street and the worlds financial system seized up a senior aide to Icelands Prime Minister paid a visit to the Russian embass... |
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10 most accountable big companies (14 November 06:05) |
| Which Global 500 firms are most socially responsible See how the top 10 on Fortunes list are showing their commitment to social and environmental goals |
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10 most 'accountable' big companies (13 November 04:26) |
| Which Global 500 firms are most socially responsible? See how the top 10 on Fortune's list are showing their commitment to social and environmental goals. |
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Where business is booming (04 November 03:42) |
| Cold, landlocked, and boasting as its largest metropolis the city of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan may not be top of mind for most Americans. But the Canadian province is one of the richest spots ... |
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China's drive into U.S. car market stalls (31 October 03:43) |
| It's been more than three years since Chinese auto makers first sent chills down Detroit's spine with plans to sell cars in the United States beginning last year. China, now the world's seco... |
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