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Financial markets have had the wind at their backs for the last few years. Historically low interest rates, the economic rise of China, India, Russia and Brazil, and consistently strong corporate earnings made for heady increases in stock and commodities markets around the world. This has created the illusion that...
The first trend is the ever popular commingling of computing and entertainment in your living room. Yet Dell lives at the office. "We're seeing more and more of our technology intersecting with home entertainment," says Ro Parra, a senior vice president of Dell's home and small-business group...
The second reason for Dell to go retail is more prosaic. For years, Dell's direct-shipment model proved especially good for selling to businesses, which generate 80% of its sales. But the business market is becoming more commoditized, and prices are in a free fall. So everyday shoppers are...
A democracy of more than 1 billion people, many profiting from a reformed economy, India is turning itself into a primary player in the global marketplace. Readers welcomed the rise of a free society, although not without a few misgivings about the lingering effects of the caste system and corruption...
Tensions are spiking in the Middle East, and so is the price of oil, which reached $77 per bbl. That's a record, and not a good one as far as motorists and investors are concerned. Nor is it happy news for inflation, which is already at a 16...