How Do You Manage?: Learning how to handle the press By ROXANA POPESCU Dealing with reporters is a skill that most people do not pick up until they are faced with the need. But good media relations can help advance your career or cause - and they should start before the crisis hits.
Investing: Speculation or sound investing? By CONRAD DE AENLLE Yield spreads on emerging-market debts have reached their lowest levels ever. Are these markets really so safe, or are investors just more willing to take risk?
Investing: Merger mania as a malady By CONRAD DE AENLLE Mergers often are poorly timed, with the volume of deals increasing just ahead of peaks in the stock market. And there is little evidence that they improve the fortunes of shareholders.
Offshore stock funds eke out gains in the first quarter By BARBARA WALL After market gyrations in February, the average offshore stock fund posted a gain of 3 percent in the period versus 1 percent for the average offshore bond fund, according to data from Morningstar, the provider of research on mutual funds.
Finding travel deals By SHELLEY EMLING A hard-fought agreement to open up the trans-Atlantic airline market holds out the promise of slightly cheaper airfares - next spring.
Don't bank on rising stocks if the Fed cuts rates By NORM ALSTER The assumption that a rising U.S. stock market will follow a Fed rate cut as surely as night follows day is widely held. But some analysts argue that investors need to look at other factors for a realistic assessment of the state of the market.
General Electric, sleeping giant of Wall Street By CONRAD DE AENLLE GE is one of the largest businesses on earth, with a market value of more than $360 billion and profit last year that exceeded $20 billion. Yet the stock has lost 4 percent over the last five years.
Investing: A new headache By CONRAD DE AENLLE The Japanese economy has come off life support at last. As great a relief as that must be for those with a stake in the patient's well-being, it also leaves them free to fixate on niggling aches and pains.
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