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...parliamentary no-confidence vote; although Samak's six-party coalition, which controls two-thirds of the lower house, shot down the motion by a vote of 280-162, there's no end in sight to Thailand's political crisis. Investors, spooked by the continuing turmoil, have fled the Thai stock market, which has swooned more than 10% since the anti-government protests began in late...
...there's been no rush for the exits by the corporate giants that have helped keep Zimbabwe ticking along, including Royal Dutch Shell, British American Tobacco, and the Anglo American Corporation, which owns a platinum mine in the country. Many of the 79 companies listed on the Harare Stock Exchange are, in fact, earning solid returns, despite the daily misery of most Zimbabweans amid severe shortages of food, electricity and fuel. Last year the London-based commodities firm Lonrho began an investment fund called LonZim, aiming to snap up investments before the collapse of Zimbabwe's government. Zimbabwe's immense...
...stakeholder approach has its limits. It seems better suited to new, growing companies than established ones, where it can be an excuse for complacency. But when the stock market is going nowhere--as it has been since 2000--trying to please shareholders can be awfully discouraging work. There's a lot to be said for focusing on other priorities...
...pick it up in their teens, then drop it in their 20s. And 50% of them don't use any other drugs. Selling it is still illegal, but the pot dealer is no longer the panic-inducing bogeyman he used to be. In movieland, he's become a stock character, about as threatening as the hot woman's quirky roommate...
...question of preemptively taking himself out of consideration Crist will only say, "I don't want to deal with hypotheticals." In any case, says USF's MacManus, it's actually to Florida's benefit to keep Crist in the veepstakes game because it "raises not only his stock but the state...