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Features : Sony’s New Board Game

The Japanese blue chip is leading a makeover of the way that countrys companies are governed. When Japans Sony announced...

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FRANCE Whoever it was who said that inflation was dead forgot to tell bond investors. Theyre snapping inflation-linked bonds as...

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UNITED STATES As timings go, it could be better.With the United States preparing for war in Iraq, financial information provider...

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We have always been run along business principles. Eitan Raff, chairman of Bank Leumi, the bank founded by Thedor Herzl...

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SWITZERLAND Is this, finally, the future of private banking? UBS, the Swiss bank that runs the worlds leading private banking...

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JAPAN Toshihiko Fukui Call it the revenge of the old guard. The late February nomination of Toshihiko Fukui as the...

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THE NETHERLANDS When Icarus flew too close to the sun and melted the wax on his artificial wings, he plummeted...

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“As businessmen we are pretty young, and so we havent many traditions of corporate behavior as a country. RUSSIA Mikhail...

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UNITED KINGDOM Sushil Wadhwani As a member of the Bank of Englands Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) from 1999 until last...

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EUROPE To hedge or not to hedge has always been a vexing question for corporate treasurers, but recently its got...

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ITALY Its a sharp shot across the bows, and its unlikely to be the last we hear of it this...

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EUROPE Europes airline companies have fallen off the radar screens of analysts at US investment bank Lehman Brothers. The banks...