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...bottled beer production. The Boston Beer Company, Inc. issued a recall earlier this week of faulty glass bottles containing their signature brand Samuel Adams beer. “It is roughly 25 percent of our total inventory,” said Seana Phillips of the company’s Investor Relations Office. “Our medical experts think that less than one percent of those bottles actually contain glass.” The defect was discovered in several bottles during a routine quality-control inspection at a brewery in Cincinnati. Affected bottles have been removed from stores and warehouses...
...AFSCME decided to try an approach that had been codified into law in Great Britain three years earlier: "say on pay" votes, a method meant to harness investor sentiment into a unified message more forceful than any one shareholder complaining to a company's board of directors could deliver. After AFSME petitioned for such votes at a handful of companies in 2006, a swath of other investors, including heavyweights like the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) and TIAA-CREF, which sells retirement investments to educators, submitted shareholder proposals at dozens of companies in 2007. Of the eight companies that...
...economic front, back in 2000 the U.S. invested $33 billion in Russia, which accounted for 22% of foreign direct investment in the country and made the U.S. Russia's top foreign investor. In the first nine months of the 2007, U.S. investment in Russia amounted to $8 billion, while direct investment amounted to $3.6 billion, pushing the U.S. third behind the U.K. and the Netherlands in Russia's list of foreign investors. Clearly U.S. corporations are more cautious about investing in Russia than they were eight years ago - which is hardly surprising given Moscow's willingness to trample over even...
...Except that it doesn't. Banks and insurance companies are regulated; the credit swaps market is not. As a result, contracts can be traded - or swapped - from investor to investor without anyone overseeing the trades to ensure the buyer has the resources to cover the losses if the security defaults. The instruments can be bought and sold from both ends - the insured and the insurer...
...Europe point out that the dollar's continued slide against most international currencies has largely been fueled by domestic American factors - notably the credit tension and business failures in the wake of the subprime crisis, and wider signs that the U.S. has or is entering into recession. But plummeting investor confidence in the American economy has only accelerated the greenback's erosion, which in a little over two years has depreciated from $1.1826 per euro in January, 2006 to Thursday's $1.56. The result is that products manufactured by companies paying euro-fixed salaries and supplies wind up in stores...