R.E.S.-ilience in Value Creation 《竹经：经商经世离不得立根创新》
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March 27, 2014 12:23 pm
Pension funds: Sleeping partner or good steward
By Sophia Grene
Should pension funds act as sleeping partners, whose role is no more than the price-setting of market participants, or do they have a more active part to play in the companies they own, acting as good stewards of their assets? Read more of this post
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March 26, 2014 9:05 pm
Internet revolutionises vintage watch collectors’ world
By Rachel Felder
Vintage watch collecting was once the preserve of well-informed enthusiasts. But that has all changed thanks to specialist websites and a handful of international dealers. Read more of this post
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March 27, 2014 11:41 am
LME halts plan to cut metals queues after court ruling
By Xan Rice
The London Metal Exchange has been forced to halt plans to reduce queues at its global warehouse network after a UK High Court judge ruled that its industry consultation was “unfair and unlawful”. Read more of this post
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March 27, 2014 9:16 am
Consumption tax rise gives Abe something to chew on
By Jonathan Soble and Jennifer Thompson in Tokyo
Call it the “beef bowl test” for Abenomics. On Tuesday, when Japan carries out a controversial increase in its national sales tax, the country’s two leading purveyors of gyu-don – cheap and hearty sliced beef on rice – will respond in starkly opposing ways: one by cutting prices, the other by raising them. Read more of this post
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HKMA fans local rate hike concerns
Karen Chiu and Imogene Wong
Thursday, March 27, 2014
A warning that local interest rates may rise more sharply and sooner than expected – posing downward risk in the homes market – was sounded by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority yesterday. Read more of this post
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| Casinos plan in Vietnam’s proposed SEZs gets mixed reactions |
by Nguyen Thi Thuy Anh, Zhang Jianhua
QUANG NINH, Vietnam, March 25 (Xinhua) — The plan to allow casinos and other forms of leisure to operate in special economic zones (SEZs) that are proposed to be build in three provinces in Vietnam has been met with mixed reactions. Read more of this post
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03.25.2014 18:19
Why Alibaba Fears Tencent’s Online Incursions
Two kingpins of the Chinese e-commerce sector are increasingly at odds and adjusting strategies
By staff reporter Zhu Yishi
| Alibaba Group chairman Jack Ma (left), Tencent Holdings chairman Ma Huateng (right) |
(Beijing) – Tencent Holdings is using its popular social networking app WeChat to push even deeper into the e-commerce territory dominated in China by Alibaba Group. Read more of this post
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March 27, 2014, 7:07 AM ET
“Culture of Compliance” Won’t Always Stop Fraud
Matt Keel, chief compliance officer at investment firm Sentinel Management Group Inc., said at the trial of the firm’s chief executive Eric A. Bloom that he still believed his former boss to be “an honest person…with high integrity.” Mr. Keel, according to prosecutors, had previously lauded Sentinel’s “strong culture of compliance” in a report. Read more of this post
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Activist Investors Often Leak Their Plans to a Favored Few
Strategically Placed Tips Help Build Alliances for Campaigns at Target Companies
SUSAN PULLIAM, JULIET CHUNG, DAVID BENOIT and ROB BARRY
March 26, 2014 10:37 p.m. ET
Shares of Rino International Corp. RINO 0.00% sank 28% in the two days after investment firm Muddy Waters LLC put out a report attacking the Chinese company’s accounting. Read more of this post
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China Soybean, Rubber Importers Renege on Deals
Canceled Contracts Add to Evidence Showing Rising Financial Stress in the Country
HUILENG TAN
March 27, 2014 6:07 a.m. ET
Chinese importers of soybeans and rubber are backing out of deals, adding to a wide range of evidence showing rising financial stress in the world’s second-biggest economy. Read more of this post
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Will DirecTV and Dish Catch Cable’s Merger Fever?
By Joshua Brustein March 27, 2014
The two largest satellite television companies in the country are talking about joining forces as a way to combat the pending merger of the country’s two biggest cable companies. Dish Network’s (DISH) chairman, Charlie Ergen, has reached out toDirecTV’s (DTV) chief executive, Mike White, and my colleagues at Bloomberg News report that White isn’t quite convinced about the idea. Read more of this post
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Pitfalls of Reverse Mortgages May Pass to Borrower’s Heirs
MARCH 26, 2014, 7:57 PM 22 Comments
The only solace for Isabel Santos as she spends her evenings huddled over stacks of yellowed foreclosure notices is that her parents are not alive to watch their ranch-style house in Pleasant Hill, Calif., slipping away. Read more of this post
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Why Movie Streaming Sites So Fail to Satisfy
MARCH 26, 2014
A team of web designers recently released an astonishingly innovative app for streaming movies online. The program, Popcorn Time, worked a bit like Netflix, except it had one unusual, killer feature. It was full of movies you’d want to watch. Read more of this post
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The SEC’s Corporate Proxy Rules Need a Rewrite
More than token ownership should be required to get a proposal on the ballot.
EDWARD S. KNIGHT
March 26, 2014 6:34 p.m. ET
Communicating with shareholders is a crucial part of the job for 21st century business leaders, and most of them understand the value of doing it. The proxy-proposal system is an important, regulated part of this process for publicly traded companies. It gives investors the option of bringing an issue to a vote by all shareholders and ensures that the owners have a voice in how their company is managed. But the current process is outdated, burdensome and costly. Read more of this post
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How Oculus Goggles Became More Than a Virtual Reality
Facebook’s Big Acquisition Rose From a Hotel Demonstration Two Years Ago
IAN SHERR
March 26, 2014 9:29 p.m. ET
Brendan Iribe traces the surprising rise of Oculus VR Inc., Facebook Inc. FB -6.94% ‘s second-largest acquisition, to a demonstration in a hotel meeting room two years ago. Read more of this post
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How to Choose Advisers For a Growing Startup
Hyman Created Her Own ‘Personal Board’
THE ACCELERATORS
Updated March 27, 2014 12:16 a.m. ET
Early on, startup founders often struggle with a range of decisions regarding strategic moves and relationships. Basically, they need advice. Read more of this post
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The Marketing Decoder: La Brea Bakery
The company is remaking its brand image for the first time in its 25-year history
SARAH NASSAUER
Updated March 26, 2014 11:28 p.m. ET
La Brea Bakery, a company known for its crusty loaves sold in Costco, COST -1.26%Albertsons and other large grocery stores, is attempting to remake its brand image for the first time in its 25-year history. Read more of this post
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Scientists Write New Chapter for Cosmos
Discovery of Dwarf Planet, Non-Planetary Rings Challenge Theories on Solar System
ROBERT LEE HOTZ
Updated March 26, 2014 6:23 p.m. ET
Scientists added two discoveries to the inventory of celestial real estate in the solar system: a dwarf planet found far beyond Pluto’s orbit, and a set of rings, like those around Saturn, that encircle a distant asteroid. Read more of this post
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Mar 26, 2014
The Top 13 Biggest Buybacks Over the Past Five Years
Tech companies have dominated the buyback blitz over the past five years.
Some 13 S&P 500 companies have each spent at least $25 billion in stock buybacks over the past five years, according to Howard Silverblatt, senior earnings analyst at S&P Dow Jones Indices. Seven of those 13 companies hail from the tech sector, led byIBMIBM -1.24%, MicrosoftMSFT -1.36% and Cisco SystemsCSCO -0.09%. Read more of this post
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Robert Shiller’s Nobel Knowledge
Yale University economics professor and Nobel laureate, Robert Shiller on the art of stock-picking and the complex psychology of investors
DAVID WESSEL
Updated March 26, 2014 11:02 a.m. ET
Robert Shiller Photograph by Jonas Fredwall Karlsson for WSJ.Money
ROBERT SHILLER, A 67-YEAR-OLDYale University professor best known for his early, accurate prediction that U.S. house prices were a bubble just waiting to burst, has long worked at the intersection of psychology and economics. He recently shared the Nobel in economics for insights into why prices of stocks and houses fluctuate as they do, particularly work showing that markets move too much to be explained by rational investors responding to changing fundamentals. Read more of this post
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How to Sell Garbage Disposals in China
Emerson’s InSinkErator Rejiggered to Munch Kitchen Favorites Like Eel, Bullfrog Skin and Duck Heads
JAMES R. HAGERTY
March 26, 2014 7:31 p.m. ET
RACINE, Wis.—About half of all U.S. homes have garbage disposals gurgling under kitchen sinks to grind up food waste. The rest of the world generally doesn’t share Americans’ enthusiasm for this gadget. Read more of this post
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Microsoft Boss Relaxes Windows-First Policy
New Version of Office for iPad Ends Practice of Using Apps to Drive Operating Software Sales
SHIRA OVIDE and STEVE ROSENBUSH
March 26, 2014 4:14 p.m. ET
Microsoft Corp.’s MSFT -1.36% new boss on Thursday will have his first shot at outlining a new, less Windows-dependent path for the company. But those who are the most likely customers for the shift won’t be easily won over. Read more of this post
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First Rule of Mergers: To Fight Is to Lose
Shareholders Challenged 94% of U.S. Public-Company Deals Last Year
LIZ HOFFMAN
March 26, 2014 12:06 p.m. ET
Corporate mergers are often fraught with uncertainty over whether the deal will succeed, culture clashes between the two companies and the fate of executives. Read more of this post
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How Box Inc. Is Battling the Web-Storage Giants
Firm Has to Show It Can Overcome Money-Losing Business Model
DOUG MACMILLAN, SHIRA OVIDE and SPENCER E. ANTE
March 26, 2014 7:53 p.m. ET
Box Inc. operates in the red-hot market for online storage, but it will have to persuade investors in its coming IPO that it can eventually overcome an expensive, money-losing business model built around a commoditized product. Read more of this post
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Speed Reading Returns
Apps and Classes Help People Adapt to Reading on Their Phones
ANGELA CHEN
March 26, 2014 7:00 p.m. ET
People read more than ever on mobile devices and usually in 10-minute bursts, giving rise to a new wave of apps that promise to make reading on a small screen easier. Angela Chen reports on the News Hub. Reading these days is often a few minutes on the phone in the grocery-store line, not an hour curled up with a book on the couch. This quick-hit reading is sparking a renewed interest in the art of speed reading. Read more of this post
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Cash, Paranoia Fuel Tech Giants’ Buying Binge
REED ALBERGOTTI and ROLFE WINKLER
March 26, 2014 8:15 p.m. ET
Facebook Inc. FB -6.94% is spending $2 billion to get into virtual reality. In the real world, the deal highlights a high-stakes race among the tech industry’s giants for continued dominance over a rapidly changing digital landscape. Read more of this post
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Cree’s Stock Puts Its Bright Idea in the Shade
DAN GALLAGHER
March 26, 2014 1:58 p.m. ET
If nothing else, Cree CREE -1.94% knows how to put all of its chips on the table.
Consider its move last year into selling LED light bulbs to consumers. For a semiconductor company accustomed to healthy margins, shifting to a segment selling mostly commodity products at thin margins seemed counterintuitive. The effect was predictable. Revenue in Cree’s lighting-product segment surged more than 40% year over year in the second fiscal quarter through December, while the gross margin for the segment slipped from 33.7% to 27.9%. Read more of this post
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Citi’s Stress-Test Mess
JOHN CARNEY And DAVID REILLY
March 26, 2014 6:02 p.m. ET
Citigroup C -0.28% is doing a good impression of the Keystone Kops. Read more of this post
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Mar 26, 2014
China’s Largest Bank Declares War on Alibaba
As Alibaba prepares for a listing in the U.S. that could raise as much as $15 billion, it’s also in a full-blown, potentially dangerous conflict with some of China’s most powerful government-backed companies. Read more of this post
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Winner in India Elections Will Face Battle to Restore Economic Growth
Investors Betting on Change Pushed Country’s Stocks to Record Highs
SHEFALI ANAND And DEBIPRASAD NAYAK
March 26, 2014 11:10 a.m. ET
MUMBAI—Investors betting on a change of government in India pushed the country’s stocks to record highs Wednesday. But whoever takes the reins after the elections that start next month faces an uphill battle to restore growth in Asia’s third largest economy. Read more of this post
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