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Your credit report affects your financial life in ways you may not imagine. It's the linchpin that determines whether you can get a mortgage, car loan or credit card--and how much interest you'll pay. It influences whether you can get utilities, and whether you'll have to pay your provider a deposit. It even affects the rates you pay on homeowner's and auto insurance...
...from U.S. investors via two entities it set up in the Cayman Islands. The bank used the money to acquire an 18% stake in Parmalat's Brazilian group. News of the transaction sent Parmalat stock soaring 17% in a single day. Bondi alleges that this transaction fraudulently made a loan look like an equity infusion, a charge the bank denies. The refinancing was even more controversial because Sala, it turns out, had an ownership interest in the company formed to handle it. Bank of America says it didn't know that at the time. Sala has been indicted along with...
...image that summed up the moral chaos of the Vietnam War: Brigadier General Nguyen Ngoc Loan abruptly executing a captured Viet Cong. Although Adams said later that he believed Loan's claim that the man he killed had just murdered one of Loan's closest aides and his family, the picture became a turning point in American attitudes toward a brutal, perplexing...
...Shinsei, Yashiro abolished promotions and raises based on seniority, the rigid classification of employees according to education and the hierarchical wearing of uniforms by the assistant-level "office ladies" at company headquarters. Then he really took on Japan's business practices. Employing un-Japanese ruthlessness, he slashed the bad-loan ratio to 5.7%, down from 20%, and then launched service-oriented new products. "We had to change our mind-set," he says. "You have to look for solutions to [customers'] problems." Oh, yeah, Yashiro makes money too. The bank's profits jumped 25% last year, to $637 million. "Things...
...Still, the decline may be temporary. Japan Inc. has fixed many of the structural problems that snuffed out previous recoveries: deflation has slowed, banks have largely cleaned up their bad-loan portfolios, and successful company restructurings are on the upswing. At a press conference last week, Economic and Fiscal Policy Minister Heizo Takenaka claimed to be unfazed by the new numbers, calling them a "minor adjustment phase in an upward climb." If only Japanese consumers were convinced...