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...justice. If firms gave at all, they sponsored causes that might further their business or extend their marketing. That's changing, as governments squeeze their budgets and a new, less self-interested type of charity takes hold. There has been a sharp rise in the number of not-for-profit foundations throughout Europe. And a network of foundations is beginning to lobby for pan-European legislation. According to the Brussels-based European Foundation Centre, about a quarter of the 61,000 foundations in the European Union were established in the past decade. In Belgium, one-third of the country...
...Considering the problems that plague UFJ, it's difficult to see why it is being courted so ardently. Formed three years ago through the merger of three ailing banks, UFJ Holdings has yet to turn an annual profit, losing $3.6 billion last year alone. It's carrying $42 billion in bad loans on its books and without assistance will probably be unable to comply with a government order to cut that amount by half within the next seven months. Worse yet, the winning bidder will be acquiring a bank at which some executives could face criminal charges for hiding information...
Manufacturers aren't giving up on their bigger, higher-profit-margin SUVs but are adding more safety features. Ford is including a roll-stability-control system as standard equipment on four 2005 models, including the Explorer. The all-new 2005 Jeep Grand Cherokee will have optional electronic stability control, which can detect skidding and automatically slow the car, along with a new tire-pressure monitor (rollovers can be caused by a blown tire) and side-curtain air bags. You'll pay extra for some of these features, but they may well help SUVs turn the corner toward improved safety...
...million U.S. subscribers, almost 1 million of whom signed up in the past year alone. In Northern California's Bay Area, Netflix's largest market, the company accounts for an astonishing 10% of all movie rentals. Launched in 1999, the company, based in Los Gatos, Calif., posted its first profit last year ($6.5 million) as revenues grew 78%. It has inspired copycats abroad--Zip in Canada (www.zip.ca) and Lovefilm in Britain www.lovefilm.com) Netflix skillfully exploits two defining consumer trends of the past decade: the ubiquity of the Internet, and the rocket-fueled growth of DVD players. The first commercially available...
This humdrum era for stocks, which analysts say could last at least several more years, has given new life to strategies designed to profit in a stalled market. All but vanquished during the long bull run of the 1990s, "market timers"--who try to catch a stock's highs and lows as it trades in a narrow range--are sprouting again. So are "market neutral" investors, who through options and other techniques try to hedge away any market movement but gain from temporary stock-price discrepancies...