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Petrobras has been plagued for years, and the capital structure inside the company is about as bad as it can be for the common stockholders who have high ambitions of huge gains down the road.
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ThinkstockThe U.S. campaign for a $15 hourly wage for fast-food workers is going global. A New York-based group called Fast Food Forward said today that fast food workers on six continents will join...
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ThinkstockThis weekend we covered something that should have been more controversial than it was made out to be. That would be whether it was safe to invest in emerging markets. It so happened that...
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ThinkstockEmerging markets have not been performing the way they have in many past bull markets. Most investor interest and direction from Wall Street strategists decided earlier this year that the...
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ThinkstockSaying that a recent decision by the European Parliament calls into question government support of European banks, Standard & Poor’s on Tuesday cut its outlook on 15 of the...
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ThinkstockBeing competitive among the manufacturing nations of the world amounts to more than just low wages. In fact, several emerging market nations known for their low-cost manufacturing are no...
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The Boeing Co.The company best known in the United States for its Subaru cars is preparing to build a new $98 million factory to fabricate a major part for the new 777X aircraft from Boeing Co....
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ThinkstockRussia is the world’s seventh largest economy based on gross domestic product (GDP). The CIA World Factbook puts its GDP for 2013 at $2.55 trillion. An even modest contraction would push...
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thinkstockThe capital markets have opened back up to Greece. The struggling, or very struggling, island nation in the eurozone (and one of the PIIGS), has tapped the capital markets for a 3 billion...
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Paying out $108 million to settle Foreign Corrupt Practices Act charges may sound expensive on the surface, but for a company like Hewlett-Packard it may be cheaper than it sounds if you consider its...
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Nokia announced Tuesday morning that the sale of virtually all the company's devices and services business to Microsoft had received approval from China's Ministry of Commerce.
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Walmart tried for at least the past two years to persuade the government of India to allow more foreign direct investment in the country so that the giant retailer could bring its superstores to the...
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ThinkstockMcDonald’s Corp. (NYSE: MCD) will close its three restaurants in Crimea, saying that it is “currently evaluating potential business and regulatory implications which may result from the...
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Thinkstock Independent oil refiner Valero Energy Corp. (NYSE: VLO) and Canada-based pipeline operator Enbridge Inc. (NYSE: ENB) have been granted licenses from the U.S. Commerce Depart to re-export...
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Wikimedia CommonsThe U.S. Treasury Department on Friday issued a license to Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) allowing the company to sell airplane parts to Iran. The license is related to the deal between the...
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