| All that Jazz | 22-NOV-09 |
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| It’s that time of the year, when jazz musicians from around the world gather in India, tune their instruments, and begin to jam. Kicking off the season is Jazz Utsav ’09, organised by Seagram’s 100 Pipers and Capital Jazz in Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore over this weekend. |
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| Rich Jaroslovsky: Google Goliath confronts David in BT's Ribbit | 15-NOV-09 |
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| If a telephone company had a heart, Google Inc would be inspiring terror in it. As the newspaper, book and video industries can attest, Google has a knack for invading established markets and turning them upside down. Next up are the phone companies: Google Voice, still in testing, provides a free, powerful suite of Internet-based services that makes it a personal communications hub. |
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| Love, orchids | 14-NOV-09 |
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| Add a little colour to your living spaces with fresh orchids ordered from around the world. |
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| David Reilly: Bondholders take revenge on fee-hungry bankers | 08-NOV-09 |
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| Companies in dire straits often roll the dice in a bid to stave off bankruptcy. The problem is that last-ditch efforts to raise new funds or restructure often come at the expense of bondholders. Struggling companies, their advisers and lenders should think twice about such strategies after an almost $700-million judgment last month against Citigroup Inc, Bank of America Corp, Wells Fargo & Co and other lenders, in connection with the bankruptcy of home builder Tousa Inc. |
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| David Pauly: Buybacks show CEOs no wiser after the recession | 01-NOV-09 |
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| Corporate executives have learned nothing from the recession. As the economy recovers, they should use the cash they piled up during the bad times to build new plants and make sensible acquisitions while costs are low and they can leverage their spending with low-interest debt. |
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| Eric Pooley: Freakonomics guys flunk science of climate change | 25-OCT-09 |
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| Steven D Levitt and Stephen J Dubner are so good at tweaking conventional wisdom that their first book, Freakonomics, sold 4 million copies. So, when Dubner, an old friend, told me their new book would take on climate change, I was rooting for a breakthrough idea. |
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| David Reilly: Death-spiral capital relieves Fed's dilemma | 11-OCT-09 |
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| The simplest solutions continue to escape those trying to fix our broken financial system. Consider banks’ need to have enough capital on hand to weather market storms. Instead of requiring banks to simply raise and hold more common equity—the most important kind of capital—regulators are kicking around more convoluted ideas. |
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| Jonathan Weil: Banks have the world flying blind on depth of losses | 04-OCT-09 |
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| There was a stunning omission from the government’s latest list of “problem” banks, which ran to 416 lenders, a 15-year high, as of June 30. One outfit not on the list was Georgian Bank, the second-largest Atlanta-based bank, which supposedly had plenty of capital. It failed last week. |
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| David Reilly: Bank regulators need not meddle in accounting | 27-SEP-09 |
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| Here’s one thing that leaders of the Group of 20 (G-20) nations don’t need to work on at their Pittsburgh meeting—accounting rules. There is no surer way to give investors short shrift, or lay the groundwork for future financial crises, than to politicise accounting. Nor do investors need bank regulators sticking their noses into this area. If regulators want to ensure that banks are better able to withstand losses, they have the power to do so on their own. |
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| Cola-Cola invites fans around the world to express their Football Celebrations | 21-SEP-09 |
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| The Coca-Cola Company today unveiled elements of a global integrated marketing campaign inspired by the joyous dance celebrations familiar to Africa, the host continent for the 2010 FIFA World Cup™. The campaign developed to support its sponsorship of the landmark sporting event is an extension of the current Coca-Cola brand platform “Open Happiness. |
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| Hedge funds' ATM moves from Tokyo to Washington | 20-SEP-09 |
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| China is getting all worked up about the wrong thing when it comes to the US. Forget these nascent trade wars over tires, cars and chickens. China’s real problem is how quickly the dollars they hold in great quantity are getting all the respect of pesos these days. Sounds like hyperbole? Not when you consider what may be the hottest investment of 2010: the dollar-carry trade. |
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| AIG of drugmakers, Pfizer is too big to be guilty | 06-SEP-09 |
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| Pfizer Inc sales folks had one tough customer in psychiatrist Stefan Kruszewski. He didn’t buy their pitch to prescribe the anti-psychotic drug Geodon to children, a use that hadn’t been approved by federal regulators. Nor did he go for the so-called off-label uses, such as treating dementia in the elderly, they suggested. |
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| Ann Woolner: UBS whistleblower gets rewarded with prison time | 30-AUG-09 |
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| If he had kept his mouth shut and his head low, Bradley Birkenfeld would be a free man today. He didn’t, so now the former UBS AG banker wears an electronic bracelet on his ankle and, beginning January, will spend three years and four months in a federal penitentiary. |
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