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Today industrial parks outside the city center house research labs from Nokia and Ericsson. U.S. bearings producer Timken is investing $15 million in a factory that will start production this year. Intel has poured $525 million into two chip-assembly and -packaging plants, one of which opened in 2005, while...
As part of this escalating war by other means, former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently visited the U.S. and met with representatives of U.S. pension funds, whom Netanyahu encouraged to stop investing in any company that does business with Iran. One session with the state treasurer of Massachusetts and...
Netanyahu's efforts are just one part of a still small but growing U.S. finance trend known as "terror-free investing." Modeled in part on the economic boycott of apartheid-era South Africa, "terror-free investing" is designed to isolate countries on the U.S. terrorism list like Iran, Sudan and...
(2 of 2) In 2005, The Roosevelt Anti-Terror Multi-Cap Fund (ABMGF) launched what it claimed was the world's first mutual fund in the "terror-free investing" category, screening out the stock of companies that do business in Iran, Libya, Syria, Sudan and North Korea. Its investment choices...
In spite of such concerns, Iran says it has managed to attract more than $10 billion in foreign cash since U.S. sanctions were enacted. Perhaps for that reason, Tehran officials insist international pressure makes little difference to them - or to the European governments and companies that are resisting it. "There...