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...holds on this his job, the hiring of Krawcheck underscores the fact that Bank of America has a growing honesty issue with shareholders. Krawcheck has a reputation on Wall Street as being Ms. Clean. Fortune magazine (TIME and Fortune share the same publisher) once dubbed Krawcheck the "last honest analyst" on Wall Street...
...charging stations. The effort isn't limited to Japan: Nissan has formed 27 partnerships around the world to clear the way for EVs. "They know people are going to need [an electric-vehicle ecosystem] and it's got to be part of the package," says Chris Richter, senior research analyst for CLSA, a Hong Kong-based brokerage. "Nissan is pulling together the whole package of subsidies, charging, recycling of batteries - the whole kit." (See the 12 most important cars of all time...
...Tatsuo Yoshida, senior analyst at UBS Securities Japan, says, "Nissan is very shrewd leveraging politicians and political power." Nowadays, many local and regional politicians jump at the chance to be perceived as sensitive to environmental concerns and so are eager to partner with Nissan. "They want an EV-assembly site or a battery-assembly site as an icon," says Yoshida. "So the motivation of the politicians and the motivation of Nissan matches. It's very clever." (Watch TIME's video about charging your electric car for 60 cents...
...agreed on last year with Rio Tinto. But with the negotiations stretching long past their original June 30 deadline, steadily climbing prices for iron ore have steelmakers sweating. "Clearly the Chinese insistence that the price be cut further no longer can be sustained," says Jim Lennon, a Macquarie Bank analyst, who notes that talks "have gotten increasingly acrimonious...
...living things and even desirable members of families," says Robertson. While popular culture in the west often casts robots as forces of evil that pose a threat to world peace - or worse, job security - Japan "tends to see robots as a force for good," says Damien Thong, a technology analyst with Macquarie Securities in Tokyo. (See the silver screen's most memorable robots...