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...fewer Americans are likely to leave the couch and hit the mall with the same kind of alacrity and determination they have in years past. "Black Friday is going to be a gray Friday," says Marshal Cohen, chief retail analyst at the NPD Group, a market research firm in Port Washington, New York...
...with taxes at a uniform 15% for individuals and businesses, and regulations so streamlined it takes three days to set up a company and $200 a year in fees to run it. Woo's business, the Compagnie Mauricienne de Textile, founded in 1986, is part of that boom. Its Port Louis factory is so big that workers use roller skates to get around in it, yet so nimble that it can switch from an order for 200 designer dresses to 200,000 Wal-Mart T shirts without missing a stitch...
...Factiva representative notified Petersen in late July about the unusually high number of downloads coming from one server port at HBS. Petersen and other University library staff have been working with Factiva since August on the problem...
...early signs are that Dubai's NASDAQ deal will not meet the kind of congressional opposition--part security concerns, part xenophobia--that last year forced a Dubai entity, DP World, to sell its control of U.S. port operations. If the deal goes through, the government-controlled Borse Dubai would get 5% of the voting rights and two seats on NASDAQ's 16-member board. Dubai will also get the 28% share that NASDAQ holds in the London Stock Exchange (LSE). In the past year, Dubai companies have also gambled on a $5 billion investment for a 9.5% share...
...Regardless, the impact of this trip is bound to be short-lived in both countries and rapidly replaced in France by headlines announcing the wave of strikes protesting reform and economic upheaval. Even before he left for Washington on Monday, Sarkozy made a stop in the Breton port of Le Guilvinec to meet with infuriated fishermen demanding aid to offset sky-rocketing fuel prices. (They got it, but not before raucous crowds left Sarkozy sputtering in fury while responding.) French college students took to the streets Thursday to protest already approved educational reforms, and have pledged to join...