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China's GDP growth declines to 7% in 2015
04/15/2015
Grouped Articles
China’s First-Quarter Growth Slowest in Six Years at 7%
Wall Street Journal 04/15/2015
China’s True Growth Is a Mystery; Economists Weigh the Clues
Wall Street Journal 04/27/2015
China’s Economy Not Immune to Market Sickness
Wall Street Journal 06/30/2015
Washington Post 01/27/2016
Moody’s Cuts Its China Rating for the First Time Since 1989
WSJ 05/24/2017
Trade Fight With U.S. Complicates China’s Campaign to Contain Debt
WSJ 06/19/2018
Microsoft and the EU anti-trust investigation of Google- lengthy investigations that act as a distraction for management
04/15/2015
Grouped Articles
Microsoft, Once an Antitrust Target, Is Now Google’s Regulatory Scold
New York Times 04/15/2015
Google finally responds to Europe's antitrust charges
Economist 08/29/2015
Google Slapped With $2.7 Billion EU Fine Over Search Results
WSJ 06/27/2017
Nokia's acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent in April 2015- a remake of Nokia
04/14/2015
Grouped Articles
Nokia Is in Talks to Buy Alcatel-Lucent
Wall Street Journal 04/15/2015
Nokia Can’t Cut Its Way to Success With Alcatel
Wall Street Journal 04/15/2015
Nokia in Advanced Merger Talks With Alcatel-Lucent
New York Times 04/14/2015
Nokia Agrees to Buy Alcatel-Lucent
Wall Street Journal 04/16/2015
Nokia Agrees to $16.6 Billion Takeover of Alcatel-Lucent
New York Times 04/15/2015
Nokia Tries to Reinvent Itself, Again, by Taking Over Alcatel-Lucent
New York Times 11/29/2015
The Euribor 12 month rate at 0.187% in April 2015, and the impact on housing and homeowner mortgages in Spain, Portugal, Italy and other eurozone countries
04/14/2015
In Spain most mortgage interest rates are tied to the 12 month Euribor, set at about 0.3% above the 12 month Euribor rate, which was 0.187% in April 2015. In Portugal most morgage interest rates are set using the average of the 3 and 6 month Euribor rate, which are close to zero. The result is significant reduction in mortgage payments by a third to half of the original mortgage payment. This is providing significant relief to homeowners with mortgages in Spain, Portugal and Italy. Spain and Portugal suffer from a severe housing crisis and high unemployment. This result of the ECB monetary policy, aids the economic recovery in Europe.
Grouped Articles
Tumbling Interest Rates in Europe Leaves Some Banks Owing Money on Loans to Borrowers
Wall Street Journal 04/14/2015
E.C.B. Sees Early Progress From Its Bond-Buying Program
New York Times 04/15/2015
ECB’s Mario Draghi Signals Boost to Stimulus Program
Wall Street Journal 10/23/2015
Wall Street Journal 10/23/2015
Loan Growth Suffers at Spanish Banks
Wall Street Journal 11/13/2015
Economic Unease Puts Top Central Bankers Under Renewed Pressure
Wall Street Journal 01/22/2016
Avon U.S.
04/14/2015
Grouped Articles
Avon Explores Strategic Alternatives
Wall Street Journal 04/14/2015
Lackluster Avon Explores Makeover
Wall Street Journal 04/28/2015
Avon in Talks to Sell North American Business to Cerberus
Wall Street Journal 12/03/2015
Deal Gives Avon CEO Sheri McCoy a Chance to Revamp
Wall Street Journal 12/18/2015
U.S. Senate bill in April 2015 giving Congress final review authority over the nuclear deal with Iran
04/14/2015
With enough Democrats favoring a Congressional review of the nuclear deal with Iran to get the 67 votes to overide a presidential veto, a bipartisan compromise accepted by the White House provides for a 30 day review if the deal is submitted by July 9, 2015. The bill is the work of Senators Cardin and Corker in the U.S. Foreign Relations Committee.
Grouped Articles
White House Says Obama Would Sign New Iran Bill
Wall Street Journal 04/15/2015
The CIA Needs an Iran ‘Team B’
Wall Street Journal 04/15/2015
Obama Yields, Allowing Congress Say on Iran Nuclear Deal
New York Times 04/14/2015
Corker-Cardin’s Good Compromise
Wall Street Journal 05/03/2015
Senate Passes Bill Giving Congress Review of Iran Nuclear Deal
Wall Street Journal 05/07/2015
Americans’ Support for Iran Nuclear Deal Holds Steady — WSJ/NBC Poll
Wall Street Journal 06/30/2015
The security situation in Nigeria in 2015-2018
04/14/2015
Grouped Articles
Boko Haram’s Abduction of Girls Still Grips Nigeria
Wall Street Journal 04/14/2015
Nigeria Finds a National Crisis in Every Direction It Turns
The New York Times 07/17/2016
President Buhari Returns to Nigeria, Facing Serious Challenges
The New York Times 08/21/2017
2019: Africa heads into an election year | DW | 31.12.2018
DW.COM 12/31/2018
China's Shenzhen Stock Exchange
04/14/2015
Grouped Articles
Shenzhen’s Overshadowed Stocks Surge
Wall Street Journal 04/14/2015
China’s stockmarket: Skyward march
Economist 04/25/2015
China Shares Suffer Worst Week Since 2008
Wall Street Journal 06/19/2015
China Stocks Are Battered Anew
Wall Street Journal 06/27/2015
Shanghai Gets the Hook as Margin Lending Turns
Wall Street Journal 06/27/2015
China’s Economy Not Immune to Market Sickness
Wall Street Journal 06/30/2015
German writer and Nobel prize winner Gunter Grass
04/13/2015
Grouped Articles
Günter Grass Dies at 87; Writer Pried Open Germany’s Past but Hid His Own
New York Times 04/13/2015
Gunter Grass’s Germany, and Mine
New York Times 04/14/2015
Russian missile sales to Iran in 2015
04/13/2015
Grouped Articles
Russia Lifts Its Ban on Delivery of S-300 Surface-to-Air Missile System to Iran
Wall Street Journal 04/14/2015
Russian Missiles for the Ayatollah
Wall Street Journal 04/14/2015
Putin Lifts Ban on Russian Missile Sales to Iran
New York Times 04/13/2015
U.N. Moves to Lift Iran Sanctions After Nuclear Deal, Setting Up a Clash in Congress
New York Times 07/20/2015
Biotech cancer drugs based on immunotherapy
04/13/2015
Grouped Articles
How the Hottest Biotech Sprouted in Iowa
Wall Street Journal 04/13/2015
U.S. consumer stocks in 2015-2016
04/13/2015
Grouped Articles
U.S. Consumer Shares Cause Sticker Shock
Wall Street Journal 04/13/2015
U.S. Stocks Come Charging Back
Wall Street Journal 08/27/2015
Stretch of Market Volatility Makes It Stormy at the Top
The New York Times 07/15/2016
Politics and government in Brazil- 2014-2016
04/13/2015
Grouped Articles
An Escalating Corruption Scandal Rocks Brazil
Wall Street Journal 04/13/2015
Brazil’s Power Dynamics Shifting Amid Political Scandals
New York Times 04/26/2015
Wall Street Journal 04/18/2016
Michel Temer, Brazil’s Interim President, May Herald Shift to the Right
New York Times 05/12/2016
The CIA and the Iran nuclear deal
04/15/2015
Grouped Articles
The CIA Needs an Iran ‘Team B’
Wall Street Journal 04/15/15
Margarethe Vestager and the EU charges of anti-competitive practices against Google
04/15/2015
Grouped Articles
The Danish Politician Who Accused Google of Antitrust Violations
New York Times 04/15/15
Europe Challenges Google, Seeing Violations of Its Antitrust Law
New York Times 04/15/15
Europe Antitrust Chief Makes Case for Google Charges
Wall Street Journal 04/17/15
New York Times 04/18/15
EU Deepens Antitrust Investigation Into Google’s Practices
Wall Street Journal 08/23/15
Google Rebuts Europe on Antitrust Charges
New York Times 08/27/15
GE (General Electric) tax rate on industrial business profits back up to 20% without the tax breaks from GE Capital
04/14/2015
Without the tax breaks from GE Capital- which come from using lower tax jurisdiction countries and overseas business- GE's tax rate will now be the rate for other industrial business companies in the U.S. On the day the decision was announced for exiting the banking business GE shares were up 11%, showing that shareholders value the stability of the industrial businesses and the quality of management above the uncertainty generated by volatile earnings from GE Capital. GE shares once considered safe- before the use of GE Capital to generate higher returns- declined to $6 during the financial crisis of 2008, requiring government rescue of GE Capital.
Grouped Articles
Price of Selling GE Capital? Tax Breaks
Wall Street Journal 04/14/15
General Electric: Banking on de-banking
Economist 04/18/15
Wall Street Journal 04/01/16
GE Warns It Might Put Subprime Lending Unit Into Bankruptcy
WSJ 05/03/18
G.E. to Spin Off Health Care Division as Part of Major Reshaping
New York Times 06/26/18
Russia- Iran relations
04/14/2015
Grouped Articles
Russia Lifts Its Ban on Delivery of S-300 Surface-to-Air Missile System to Iran
Wall Street Journal 04/14/15
Russian Missiles for the Ayatollah
Wall Street Journal 04/14/15
U.N. Moves to Lift Iran Sanctions After Nuclear Deal, Setting Up a Clash in Congress
New York Times 07/20/15
Relief for mortgage holders in Spain, Portugal, France and other eurozone countries as the Euribor rate approaches zero in 2015
04/14/2015
The Euribor rate is close to zero in April 2015. Mortgage rates in Spain, Portugal and other eurozone countries are set at a level of Euribor plus 0.3%. This means significant savings for homeowners with a mortgage in Italy, Spain and Portugal, countries where mortgage holders badly needed relief, especially following the housing crisis in Spain with high unemployment. In some cases this has cut the mortgage payments by a third of the amount owed. Euribor below zero could lead to a situation where homeowners are owed money by banks which could then reduce the mortgage principal owed. In Italy, Spain and Portugal mortgage rates use Euribor plus about 0.3% for setting mortgage rates. This is one way in which the ECB's monetary policy is helping the economic recovery in Europe.
Grouped Articles
Tumbling Interest Rates in Europe Leaves Some Banks Owing Money on Loans to Borrowers
Wall Street Journal 04/14/15
E.C.B. Sees Early Progress From Its Bond-Buying Program
New York Times 04/15/15
GE (General Electric) decision in 2015 for repatriation of foreign earnings and $6 billion in taxes
04/14/2015
Grouped Articles
Price of Selling GE Capital? Tax Breaks
Wall Street Journal 04/14/15
IBM's Watson Health unit in partnership with Apple, J&J, and Medtronic for health data business
04/14/2015
Grouped Articles
IBM Positions Itself as Large Broker of Health Data
Wall Street Journal 04/14/15
Behind Ginni Rometty’s Plan to Reboot IBM
Wall Street Journal 04/21/15
Apple, IBM and Japan Post See Profit in the Old-Age Market
New York Times 04/30/15
IBM Revenue Falls 13% Despite Big Gains in New Fields
New York Times 07/20/15
IBM Adds Medical Images to Watson, Buying Merge Healthcare for $1 Billion
New York Times 08/06/15
IBM: A Billion People to Use Watson by 2018
WSJ 10/26/16
Gunter Grass and a new generation in Germany
04/14/2015
A journalist from German newspaper, Die Zeit, describes his frustration with Gunter Grass and the moral superiority displayed by some writers from the early postwar period.
Grouped Articles
Gunter Grass’s Germany, and Mine
New York Times 04/14/15
Founding a biotech in midwestern U.S.- Dr. Charles Link, Newlink Genetics and Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa
04/13/2015
Dr. Charles Link a researcher at the National Cancer Center in Maryland, says he decided to go back to his roots in Iowa in the 1990's to raise his children in the U.S. midwest. He did cancer research at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa, and founded NewLink Genetics in 1999 to develop drugs based on his research on immunotherapy, using the body's immune system to fight cancer. Genentech has invested $150 million in the company. NewLink went public in 2011.
Grouped Articles
How the Hottest Biotech Sprouted in Iowa
Wall Street Journal 04/13/15
Republican Vote in Iowa Caucus Hinges on Newcomer Turnout
Wall Street Journal 02/01/16
BlackRock performance
04/13/2015
Grouped Articles
BlackRock’s Chief, Laurence Fink, Urges Other C.E.O.s to Stop Being So Nice to Investors
New York Times 04/13/15
BlackRock Says Assets Grew 8% in Quarter
New York Times 04/16/15
BlackRock Chief: Markets Will Be ‘Fine’
Wall Street Journal 01/18/16
VW CEO Martin Winterkorn 2007-2016- a period of rapid global growth for VW
04/13/2015
Grouped Articles
Volkswagen Faces Fight Over Future Leadership of the Company
Wall Street Journal 04/13/15
As Boardroom Struggle Ends, Volkswagen Looks to the Future
New York Times 04/26/15
Volkswagen Scandal Pressures CEO
Wall Street Journal 09/23/15
Volkswagen’s Chief in the Vortex of the Storm
New York Times 09/22/15
Volkswagen C.E.O. Martin Winterkorn Resigns Amid Emissions Scandal
New York Times 09/23/15
Volkswagen Ex-CEO Martin Winterkorn Indicted in Emissions Probe
WSJ 05/03/18
BlackRock CEO Laurence Fink
04/13/2015
Grouped Articles
BlackRock’s Chief, Laurence Fink, Urges Other C.E.O.s to Stop Being So Nice to Investors
New York Times 04/13/15
BlackRock Says Assets Grew 8% in Quarter
New York Times 04/16/15
BlackRock Chief: Markets Will Be ‘Fine’
Wall Street Journal 01/18/16
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