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...lose?'" says the former schoolteacher, who sunk part of her life savings into stocks two years ago and often hangs out at a brokerage office near her home, watching the markets and playing cards with her friends. But her PetroChina play lost more than 12%, and her other investments have also fallen. In mid-November, Zhang gave up, selling all her shares. She says she lost 20% of the $13,500 she had invested. "That's enough," she says. "I won't invest in stocks anymore. I can't afford to lose my savings...
...Global Competitiveness Index is widely watched by countries that want to ferret out weak spots and by companies deciding where to invest. "We're taking the complexity of the world economy and simplifying it," says Jennifer Blanke, a senior economist at the WEF, "so that business and government can say, 'These are the obstacles going forward. What can we do to overcome them?'" In the overall ranking, the U.S. finishes first (same as last year) out of 131 countries, thanks in part to top scores in venture-capital availability (plentiful), domestic-market size (huge) and cost of firing workers...
...four years ago. It faces the same challenges confronting the rest of the Indian tea industry--intense global competition, fickle consumer tastes and labor disputes that have occasionally turned violent. India produces more tea than any other country in the world except China, but after years of neglecting to invest in marketing or technology, India has seen its exports fall behind those of Sri Lanka, Kenya and China in the $7.5 billion global tea market...
...music community. After having watched thousands of regular, working class employees laid off and no longer in the music profession, we are not.Whatever one might see as the future for record companies, the importance of their creative and business role to date cannot be denied. Record companies have invested enormous sums of money to find and develop talent, and to record and market music. They have been integral to the creative process, whether it is pairing a recording artist with the right song or helping to perfect that artist’s sound. On the business side, record companies have...
...DJing the parties, I just play the music the people want. I don’t invest that much into...