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...awakened to make money to cover the social sphere." Growing animated, he added: "We are not announcing some kind of revolution." Ironically, the reforms Lepper and the Kaczynskis denounced on their way to power have made the economy so resilient that their fulminations have not managed to shake investor confidence. Political shocks such as questioning the central bank's independence or promising new programs without new revenues are being largely absorbed. "The fundamentals are strong," says Balcerowicz. But if the government continues on its present course, for how long...
Leon Levy—a well-known Wall Street investor who died in 2003—and his widow Shelby White started the Shelby White-Leon Levy Program for Archaeological Publications at Harvard in 1997 to support research on terminated and unpublished field work from sites in Greece, Turkey, Cyrpus, Iran, and the Middle East...
...buyouts certainly add a new sense of urgency to a turnaround effort that until now some critics, such as GM's newest board member, Jerry York, investor Kirk Kerkorian's man in Detroit, had considered stuck in neutral. But things are not looking up at GM these days. The automaker recently disclosed it had lost $10.6 billion in 2005, not $8.6 billion as the company reported in January. March sales estimates prepared by outside analysts suggest that GM's market share has dipped close to 21% in March, a far cry from the 45% GM commanded in its heyday...
...thought would deliver their economy and culture to the colossus of the North. In Seoul, the attempt by U.S. corporate raider Carl Icahn to get a seat on the board of tobacco company KT&G has, says Jang Hasung, dean of Korea University's business school, "reignited anti-foreign-investor sentiment." The sale of a controlling interest in Shin Corp., owner of Thailand's leading telecommunications company, to Temasek Holdings of Singapore has been one of the catalysts for the Bangkok demonstrations against Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, whose family controlled Shin Corp. In France, an effort by the Italian...
...When E-Ton Solar debuted on the Taiwan OTC market on March 8, its share price quadrupled on opening day, soaring from $6.72 to $26.85. The performance gave E-Ton a market cap exceeding $570 million, vaulting it into the ranks of Taiwan's 100 largest public companies. Investor enthusiasm for the company, a spin-off from little-known maker of electric bikes and motors JI-EE Industry, is largely explained by one simple fact: E-Ton has pre-sold its entire 2006 production due to growth in demand worldwide...