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06/23/2026
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Sovereign Wealth Funds dealing with American perception of sinister motives
01/25/2008
After Unocal and the Dubai Ports deal sovereign wealth funds try a new approach, building rapport and understanding and taking mostly small portfolio type ownership stakes.
Grouped Articles
Russia Government Fund Will Tread Carefully
Wall Street Journal 01/25/2008
China Tries to Reassure U.S. About Its Investing Plans
New York Times 02/01/2008
China Fund Confident of Getting More Cash
Wall Street Journal 05/13/2011
Lobbyists Smoothed the Way For a Spate of Foreign Deals
Wall Street Journal 01/25/2008
How Nokia competed in the days before the iPhone
01/25/2008
Nokia's strategies in developed and emerging markets worked well before it failed to develop smartphones. In 2008 Nokia increased market share and held the position held by Apple and Samsung in 2012.
Grouped Articles
From Nokia, an Executive Who Knows the Difficulties at Hand
New York Times 09/03/2013
Nokia Conducting Search for New CEO
Wall Street Journal 07/20/2010
Nokiaâs New Chief Faces a Culture of Complacency
New York Times 09/26/2010
Nokia Earnings Jump on Emerging Markets
Wall Street Journal 01/25/2008
Samsung Covets Low-End of Smartphone Market, Too
Wall Street Journal 03/21/2013
Nokia Losing Ground to Samsung in India
Wall Street Journal 03/22/2013
GM (General Motors) Restructuring in 2009.
01/24/2008
After the first government loan General Motors begins serious restructuring in February 2009 as mandated in the loan terms. The government oversight over the restructuring.
Grouped Articles
GM Shares Sharply Down as Western Europe Drags
Wall Street Journal 10/09/2008
Howes: Market drop revives talk of bankruptcy
Detroit News 10/10/2008
U.S. Auto Shares Plunge on a Grim Sales Forecast
New York Times 10/10/2008
Detroit Free Press 10/14/2008
General Motors, Driven to the Brink
New York Times 10/26/2008
How Detroit Drove Into a Ditch
Wall Street Journal 10/25/2008
Upjohn, Pfizer, J&J and Rogaine for baldness
01/24/2008
Grouped Articles
Rogaine Seeks Place in the Morning Routine
New York Times 01/24/2008
Nokia's failure to turn a huge investment in R&D into a smartphone before competitors
01/24/2008
Nokia's investment in R&D over the last decade exceeds that of Apple and Google. Yet the company blundered into a failure to invest this money effectively to stay ahead in new products like the smartphone that would eventually take over the market. At critical junctures Nokia decided to focus on ite existing strengths and not prepare for changing technologies that would upend the marketplace. Organizational dysfunction and slow decisionmaking compounded the process. Too much of the emphasis was on pure R&D without a focus on new exciting products with newer technologies.
Grouped Articles
Microsoft in $7 Billion Deal for Nokia Cellphone Business
Wall Street Journal 09/03/2013
Nokiaâs New Chief Faces a Culture of Complacency
New York Times 09/26/2010
The Inside Story of How the iPhone Crippled BlackBerry
Wall Street Journal 05/24/2015
Microsoft Phone Woes Spur New Cuts
Wall Street Journal 07/08/2015
Nokia's Bad Call on Smartphones
Wall Street Journal 07/18/2012
HTC Beefs Up China Push as U.S., Europe Lag
Wall Street Journal 08/14/2012
Nokia failing competitiveness and the Stephen Elop memo
01/24/2008
The "Burning Platform" memo by Nokia CEO Stephen Elop, tells Nokia employees that Nokia in 2011 is like a man in the North Sea who hears an explosion on his oil platform and sees it burning. He has to choose between standing there or to jump into the icy waters, and he chooses to jump and makes it against all odds.
Grouped Articles
Nokia's Turnaround Has Long Way to Go
Wall Street Journal 07/19/2013
Microsoft in $7 Billion Deal for Nokia Cellphone Business
Wall Street Journal 09/03/2013
Microsoft Gets Nokia Units, and Leader
New York Times 09/03/2013
Nokia's Stephen Elop: Next Microsoft CEO?
Wall Street Journal 09/04/2013
From Nokia, an Executive Who Knows the Difficulties at Hand
New York Times 09/03/2013
Nokiaâs New Chief Faces a Culture of Complacency
New York Times 09/26/2010
Nokia and the manufacturing town of Salo, Finland in 2012 and 2015
01/24/2008
The closing of the 850 worker factory in Salo on Finland's southwestern coast. The decline to 10% from 25% of Nokia's manufacturing done inside Finland, and the overall decline of the ICT (information and communications technology) sector in the GDP of Finland.
Grouped Articles
Microsoft Phone Woes Spur New Cuts
Wall Street Journal 07/08/2015
After Nokia Layoffs, Tech Workers in Finland Regroup and Refocus
New York Times 08/09/2015
Wall Street Journal 06/20/2012
Wall Street Journal 07/20/2012
Wall Street Journal 07/19/2012
Finland Trails Its Nordic Neighbors
Wall Street Journal 08/15/2012
Motorola- the collapse of an icon
01/24/2008
Grouped Articles
Motorola to Cut 4,000 More Jobs as Cellphone Sales Collapse by Half
Wall Street Journal 01/15/2009
Without a Hit Razr Sequel, Profit Drops for Motorola
New York Times 01/24/2008
Motorola.
01/24/2008
Grouped Articles
Wall Street Journal 06/18/2010
Motorola Sells Networking Unit for $1.2 Billion
Wall Street Journal 07/19/2010
In Phone Wars, Motorola's Hopes Ride on the Droid
Wall Street Journal 07/26/2010
Wall Street Journal 04/08/2011
Wall Street Journal 07/28/2011
After Google, Motorola to Face Identity Crisis
New York Times 08/21/2011
Failure of the Copenhagen talks on global warming and climate change.
01/23/2008
The European view expressed by German Environment Minister Rottgen in an interview for Der Spiegel.
Grouped Articles
Paris Deal Would Herald an Important First Step on Climate Change
New York Times 11/29/2015
Unknown 12/29/2009
Economist 12/30/2009
China, India, U.S. Take Steps Toward Emissions Deal
Wall Street Journal 12/12/2011
U.S. Given Poor Marks on the Environment
New York Times 01/23/2008
Wall Street Journal 01/23/2008
Johnson Controls strategies
01/23/2008
One of the few auto parts companies that have continued to operate outside of bankruptcy protection.
Grouped Articles
Johnson Controls' Next Boss Would Pare Auto-Parts Units
Wall Street Journal 08/09/2013
Johnson Controls Tells Critics Take a Seat
Wall Street Journal 01/20/2014
Johnson Controls Considers Spinning Off Car Parts Unit
New York Times 06/10/2015
Johnson Controls to Spin Off Automotive Business
Wall Street Journal 07/25/2015
Johnson Controls Said to Be in Advanced Talks to Combine With Tyco
Wall Street Journal 01/25/2016
Tyco Merger Will Shift Johnson Controls’ Tax Liability Overseas
New York Times 01/25/2016
New U.S. standards for truck emissions and fuel economy in 2010
01/23/2008
Grouped Articles
Ford Is Hoping to Give the Once-Great Explorer a Second Life
New York Times 05/27/2010
Wall Street Journal 01/17/2014
Truck Emissions and Fuel Economy Are Targets of New Federal Standards
New York Times 10/25/2010
Five Car Makers Back White House's Tougher Fuel Economy Rules
Wall Street Journal 07/27/2011
New-Car Fuel Economy Reaches Record Level
Wall Street Journal 02/13/2012
Detroit Is Feeling Less Pain at the Pump
Wall Street Journal 02/25/2012
Joseph Stiglitz on the way the Obama administration handled the economy and his vision for the future.
01/23/2008
A squandered opportunity says Stiglitz of Obama's handling of the economy. He presents his vision and solution and action plan.
Grouped Articles
Washington Post 09/06/2011
Japan Is a Model Not a Cautionary Tale
New York Times 06/09/2013
Charlie Rose Talks to Robert Reich
BusinessWeek 10/21/2010
Geithner's Plan: Loopholes Galore
BusinessWeek 04/01/2009
New York Times 04/01/2009
Voters’ Second Thoughts on Hope and Change
New York Times 11/04/2014
Russian GDP growth in 2009 and 2010.
01/25/2008
Prospects for the Russian economy after the worst of the economic crisis in early 2009.
Grouped Articles
Oil's Crash Stirs Unrest in Russia as Slump Hits Home
Wall Street Journal 12/19/08
Gazprom Puts a Positive Spin on First-Half Results
New York Times 06/27/09
Russia Facing Long Recession, World Bank Says
New York Times 06/25/09
A Weakened Russia Looks to Europe
Wall Street Journal 09/11/10
Medvedevâs Economic Reforms Likely to Continue Under Putin
New York Times 09/24/11
Russia Talks of a Stability Beyond Ties to the U.S.
New York Times 01/25/08
Russia's finance minister, Alexei Kudrin, and Russia's finances
01/25/2008
Kudrin on higher military spending of 3% of Russia's GDP, exceeding the amount spent on education. He sees this as endangering Russia's finances. Kudrin's focus on building the Russian Stabilization Fund helped Russia weather the 2008 global financial crisis. He is one of the St Petersburg officials who helped bring Putin to the Presidency. A slowing economy and a decline in oil prices would have an impact on the Russian economy. Analysts say Russia needs an oil price of $120 to support the current level of spending.
Grouped Articles
Putin Pledges Stimulus for Russian Economy
Wall Street Journal 06/21/13
Russia Looks to Borrow to Plug Funding Gap
Wall Street Journal 09/19/13
Russia Prepared to Let Ruble Slide
Wall Street Journal 01/30/14
Red Alert on Russia Is Premature
Wall Street Journal 02/03/14
Russia's Power Play Hits Economic Weak Spot
Wall Street Journal 03/04/14
Russia Economy Worsens Even Before Sanctions Hit
New York Times 04/16/14
Merck and Vytorin
01/24/2008
Grouped Articles
Heart Group Backs Drug Made by Ally
New York Times 01/24/08
Contrarians Grantham, Rodriguez, Schiff, Arends, Granville, Roubini and others- 2010-2012
01/24/2008
U.S. stock market investing and contrarians. Skepticism about the stock market rallies of 2010-2012, and the greater influence of macroeconomic forces, which include oil prices volatility with international tensions, the eurozone financial crisis, and continuing fall in housing prices. Changes in fiscal policies and tax policies resulting in withdrawal of government support are other uncertainties.
Grouped Articles
Number of the Week: Volatile August for Stocks
Wall Street Journal 09/03/11
The Doomsayers Who Got It Right
Wall Street Journal 01/02/09
Why I Don't Believe In This Santa Rally
Wall Street Journal 12/29/10
Beware a Bernanke-Fueled Market Bubble
BusinessWeek 05/13/10
Wall Street's Clearance Sale Leaves Few Bargains
Wall Street Journal 06/06/09
Charlie Rose Talks to Nouriel Roubini
BusinessWeek 05/13/10
Merck Marketing and the Justice Department
01/24/2008
Grouped Articles
Wall Street Journal 08/09/11
Heart Group Backs Drug Made by Ally
New York Times 01/24/08
Nouriel Roubini, the man the European Central Bank calls to know whats around the next corner.
01/24/2008
Nouriel Roubini, global nomad, thinking in ways outside of the ordinary and outside of the typical in the economics profession, studied under Jeffrey Sachs and worked with Shiller at Yale. He has his own blog and since 2005 has predicted just the kind of crisis in the economy we are facing.
Grouped Articles
New York Times 08/17/08
The Real Mandate Is to Bridge the Wealth Gap
New York Times 11/09/08
Treasury’s Got Bill Gross on Speed Dial
New York Times 06/21/09
How the Fed Can Avoid the Next Bubble
Wall Street Journal 10/06/09
Experts See Another Global Dip Ahead
Wall Street Journal 01/28/10
Fear of a Double Dip Could Cause One
New York Times 05/14/10
Nokia and Motorola approach to markets
01/24/2008
How Motorola slipped and Nokia picked up after losing market share and set strong direction in emerging markets.
Grouped Articles
Without a Hit Razr Sequel, Profit Drops for Motorola
New York Times 01/24/08
Nokia Earnings Jump on Emerging Markets
Wall Street Journal 01/25/08
Wall Street Journal 04/08/11
Wall Street Journal 07/28/11
Nokia Sees Silver Lining in Google Deal
Wall Street Journal 08/15/11
Google's Big Bet on the Mobile Future
New York Times 08/16/11
Failure of the Board of Directors to correct a company's course before it goes into bankruptcy- GM (General Motors) to MF Global
01/24/2008
Grouped Articles
The 40-Year Club: America's Longest-Serving Directors
Wall Street Journal 07/16/13
Wall Street Journal 09/10/13
Wall Street Journal 01/09/09
BusinessWeek 06/01/09
Wall Street Journal 06/02/09
G.M.’s Board Is Seen as Slow in Reacting to Safety Crisis
New York Times 09/07/14
Motorola founder Robert Galvin
01/24/2008
Grouped Articles
Son of Founder Turned Motorola Into Cellphone Giant
Wall Street Journal 10/13/11
Motorola to Cut 4,000 More Jobs as Cellphone Sales Collapse by Half
Wall Street Journal 01/15/09
Without a Hit Razr Sequel, Profit Drops for Motorola
New York Times 01/24/08
Differences within the Iranian government on its position in the negotiations with Western nations in Istanbul in 2012 and in 2013
01/23/2008
Differences between Ali Khamanei and Ahmadinejad on what the Iranian position should be in the negotiations over the Iranian nuclear program and sanctions. Efforts to impeach Ahmadinejad by a faction in the government. The differences between factions under the new government in 2013.
Grouped Articles
Nuclear Talks Divide Hard-Liners in Iran
Wall Street Journal 10/20/13
New York Times 11/03/13
Sohrab Ahmari: An Iranian Insider's View of the Geneva Deal
Wall Street Journal 11/27/13
Military Chief in Iran Scolds a Top Official
New York Times 12/11/13
A Nuclear Deal Is Likely to Hit Hurdles in Iran
New York Times 11/20/14
In What Way Is Iran a Reliable Negotiating Partner?
Wall Street Journal 03/03/15
Visteon.
01/23/2008
Auto parts companiy formerly connected with Ford Motor Company that is reorganizing under Chapter 11.
Grouped Articles
Johnson Controls Bids for Visteon Businesses
Wall Street Journal 05/22/10
Wall Street Journal 10/29/12
Wall Street Journal 01/23/08
Airline emissions cuts.
01/23/2008
EU airline emission cuts.
Grouped Articles
Economist 09/24/09
Wall Street Journal 09/28/11
Countries Consider Retaliation for Europeâs Airline Emissions Fee
New York Times 02/17/12
U.S. Given Poor Marks on the Environment
New York Times 01/23/08
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