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...Nooyi, though, is hardly done investing in developing markets. Pepsi announced in September that it would spend $500 million in India over three years to triple its business there. And a month later, Pepsi unveiled plans to invest $1 billion over the next four years to boost production in China as well. "China represents a lot of thirsty individuals," says Jim Gregory, CEO of branding agency CoreBrand. "The opportunity is especially strong when the locally produced products like milk have such terrible quality-control issues. The Chinese will be flocking to American beverage brands for our quality standards alone." They...
...Treasury Department is quickly running out of money to invest in troubled banks. A TIME.com analysis of public records shows that nearly one-third, or $216 billion, of the $700 billion that Congress approved to be spent just six weeks ago has already been spent or will soon be sent to just 67 banks. That's a small fraction of the up to 1,800 financial firms that are expected to apply for government assistance...
...assuming the "macro market" continues - and looking at certain measures like volatility, Merrill thinks it will continue at least into the first quarter of 2009 - does that mean you should pick out some industry-focused funds, or ETFs, to invest in? Well, maybe not. Keep in mind that you still have the daunting task of picking the right industries. What might be a sounder strategy, if you aren't satisfied with broad-based mutual funds and insist on playing games in the stock market, is finding stocks that haven't been tracking their...
Nigerian entrepreneur Toks Abimbola addressed the obstacles facing African economic development and investment at an intimate gathering in Winthrop House’s Tonkens Room yesterday. Abimbola serves as the managing partner of Shoreline Energy International, a leading African holding company currently valued at over $120 million. The group aims to build infrastructure in sub-Saharan Africa through the acquisition of construction, oil, gas, and power companies. With years of experience in international business, Abimbola attested to a recent change in the prospects for African development. While the continent had previously been plagued by political strife and corruption, he said...
...This generation will learn eventually, like every one that came before, that politicians are men as well and, along with political systems comprised of men, are subject to flaws, weaknesses, and limits of their own. Accordingly, we ought not invest all our hope in vehicles inevitably incapable of requiting it. Christopher B. Lacaria ’09, a Crimson editorial writer, is a history concentrator in Kirkland House. His column appears on alternate Mondays...