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...dispatched to the ship-knackers' yard. Even pleasure boats can present a threat; among craft posing potential disposal hazards, Greenpeace lists the Pacific Princess, otherwise known as TV's Love Boat. In some countries, however, shipbreaking represents a business opportunity. Five nations - Bangladesh, China, India, Pakistan and Turkey - account for 90% of the world's shipbreaking industry. But increasingly, countries that break up ships are learning that they pay a price: workers' safety standards in the yards are notoriously low, and some countries object to being a dumping ground for richer countries' toxic waste. The legal framework around shipbreaking, like...
Much of the world remains unbanked. China's 1.3 billion people, for example, carry about 10 million credit cards, compared with 1.2 billion in the U.S. In Mexico only 1 in 5 people has a bank account. Rising middle classes in developing countries are low-hanging fruit for multinational financial-services companies. "In the next 25 years, you'll see economic wealth distributed more evenly with the world's population," says John Bond, HSBC's outgoing chairman. "Demand for financial services in emerging markets is going to grow consistently and probably grow faster than it will in the more mature...
...trucks like the F-150 and its finance and global business, which includes Mazda, Volvo and Land Rover. (Another brand, Jaguar, is losing money.) On the cost side, the U.S. carmakers are dragged down by the huge burden of benefits for retired workers, such as health care, which account for $930 of the cost of each of GM's vehicles, $560 of Ford's and only $110 of Toyota's--putting the Americans at a severe disadvantage. Ford loses $258 for every car it produces, compared with Toyota's profit of $1,698 per vehicle, according to Banc of America...
Start at www.savingforcollege.com for the basics on what 529s are, and for information about other tax-advantaged ways to invest-such as the Coverdell Education Savings Account. Under "College Savings 101," click on "College Calculator" to see how much money you need to save (depending on where you think your kid will go to college) and how much you need to set aside in order to get to that goal. Click on "529 Plans," and you get information on all the different plans states offer (including prepaid tuition plans, which are also sometimes called "529s," even though they...
...Japan, blames undisciplined individual investors-a category that Livedoor?s CEO Takafumi Horie helped cultivate. As in the United States seven years ago, the rise of Japan?s Internet sector has stoked a surge in online brokerage companies and individual stock investing. According to some estimates, individual investors now account for 50% of the Japanese market?s total trading volume. ?Many Japanese households have started to join in the stock market, and a lot of money went into technology stock shares,? says Aida. ?They got panicked. This should be a lesson for them.? Indeed, on Thursday, Japan?s market staged...