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...Indeed, the best-selling kei such as the Move and Suzuki's Wagon R are practical and conservative. But manufacturers introduced 11 new models last year, among them sportier, more technologically sophisticated cars geared for younger buyers. Mitsubishi automotive designer Akinori Nakanishi likens the company's new Mitsubishi i to an iPod Nano on wheels, down to the bright colors. (A deluxe version comes with a docking port for a Nano and a satellite navigation system.) Mini design might sound like dull work-tight budgets, less room for bells and whistles-but Nakanishi says his team welcomed the challenge...
...cost of loans for housing and credit cards would inch up, and stocks traditionally suffer when rates rise. Still, after so many years trapped in an economic twilight zone, the Japanese may find such worries almost a pleasure to contemplate. As Tatsushi Shikano, a senior economist at Mitsubishi UFJ Research and Consulting, says: "It's a sign that things are going back to normal...
...corporate balance sheets around the world are as healthy as they have been in years. In Japan, corporate profits have climbed for four straight years (the longest sustained increase since the 1970s) and consumer spending is rising briskly on the back of declining unemployment. Yuji Shimanaka, chief economist at Mitsubishi UFJ Research and Consulting in Tokyo, says Japan is now in "a golden cycle." So, for now, is much of the world. "It comes down to very simple macroeconomics," says Subir Gokam, an economist at CRISIL, India's largest credit-rating firm. "The global economy is growing without much inflationary...
Meanwhile, the opportunities to offset emissions are growing. Conservation International, for instance, helped Mitsubishi and Pearl Jam funnel their offsetting funds into rain-forest protection in Madagascar. And Coldplay did more than enough to offset its last album, X&Y, by protecting forests in Mexico and Ecuador. Internet ventures with names like TerraPass, myclimate and Drive Neutral enable commuters and air travelers to calculate their emissions and neutralize the damage. Some even aim to turn a profit...
...correct these deficiencies and restore confidence in its regulatory stringency. Among most major M&A players, however, confidence is not the problem. Nomura is reportedly adding 20 people to its 100-person M&A team. Lehman is expanding its M&A desk by a third, and Merrill Lynch and Mitsubishi UFJ Securities have said they too are bulking...