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Management's ultimate goal is to become one of the world's top five automakers. That will require finding another gear. But the joke quotient is certainly down, and as O'Neill points out, "that's a pretty good index of our progress...
...First, the Labor Department report Friday morning that the PPI - the producer price index, which measures inflation at the wholesale level - actually fell 0.4 percent in June, the biggest drop in PPI since a 0.5-percent fall in February 1999. That's a free pass for Greenspan to cut rates if he wants...
...percent in June after May's upwardly revised 0.4 percent hike. That was a soft number, but look at what kept the overall number in positive territory - auto sales. Those about to tighten their belts do not buy new cars. And the University of Michigan's respected consumer sentiment index rose to 93.7 percent in July, according to a Reuters report, compared with a reading of 92.6 percent in June...
...monitor and query the databases of news sites, chatrooms and Usenet groups for trends, product information, gossip about your company and your competitors. "We identify the best sources for a topic, company or individual then mine the information automatically, aggregate it, filter it, clean it, index it, relevance-rank it, auto-categorize it and move it into the matrix," says Vora. Often the most useful information is already sitting on a company's own network. E-mail from customers and clients can be a goldmine if it's harvested and made searchable. Vora cites - but won't name - a global...
...Changoiwalas are not alone. This past March, India's markets crashed, knocking 16% off the national stock index. Investors across the country were rattled, and Calcutta was rocked to the bone. Daily volume on the city's exchange plunged by more than 80% and has yet to recover. Officials reckon that 400 of the bourse's 450 active brokers are near bankruptcy. And most of them are no longer showing up at the office. The Calcutta Stock Exchange, India's third- largest and one of the most venerable in Asia, looks like some backwater bus depot, rather than the bustling...