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August 27, 2010 Corporate America Begins to Get the Message: U.S. Consumers Do Not Like Dealing with Foreign Telephone Agents, Says CFI Group

Source:BusinessWire

ANN ARBOR, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The percentage of consumers being funneled to call centers located in a foreign country declined for the second straight year, according to CFI Group’s latest Call Center Satisfaction Index...[more]

August 24, 2010 World stock markets fall as economy worries linger

Source:AP

BANGKOK — World stock markets retreated Tuesday as the strong yen knocked Japanese shares and investors anticipated more bad news from U.S. economic reports this week.Markets have spent most of August in the red as economic...

August 23, 2010 Inflation, not deflation, Mr. Bernanke

Source:MarketWatch

BEIJING (Caixin Online) -- In the wake of a barrage of bad economic data, the yield on two-year U.S. Treasury notes has tumbled to 0.5% and the 10-year note to 2.8%, almost reaching the levels after Lehman's collapse. Pundits in...

August 18, 2010 On The Front Line In China: Challenging Business Ethics

Source:Forbes

Last week brought a reminder of China’s troubling business ethics landscape when the government was forced to investigate reports that infants who consumed milk powder supplied by Nasdaq-listed Synutra International had premature...

August 18, 2010 Fiber Hungry Chinese Market Increases Share of Global Recovered Paper Trade

Source:RISI

BRUSSELS -- Annual trade data published online by RISI shows China accounted for 54% of global trade in recovered fiber in 2009, a substantial increase from its 34% share in 2004. The USA exported over two thirds of its...[more]

August 17, 2010 Say Yes To The Yen

Source:Forbes

The Japanese yen recently rallied to 15-year highs against the U.S. dollar along with hitting highs against other major currencies. Throughout the economic crisis, the yen has continued to display strength while other currencies...

August 16, 2010 China Overtakes Japan as World's Second-Biggest Economy

Source:B loomberg

China surpassed Japan as the world’s second-largest economy last quarter, capping the nation’s three- decade rise from Communist isolation to emerging superpower. Japan’s nominal gross domestic product for the second quarter...

August 16, 2010 Apple staff allegedly sold secrets worth $1m

Source:The Register.co.uk

Asian companies negotiating contracts with Apple allegedly paid more than $1m in kickbacks to an Apple manager in exchange for confidential information about what Cupertino would be buying. That's according to a suit field by...

August 13, 2010 Growth of Euro-Area Economy Beats Forecasts

Source:NY Times

The euro-area economy grew 1 percent in the second quarter, a much better rate than had been expected, due largely to Germany’s best quarterly performance since reunification, according to data released Friday.

August 11, 2010 Safety Focus Moves To Technology

Source:Forbes

Since the consumer products safety crisis of 2007 relating to goods sourced from China, controls have been tightened by Chinese and importing governments. At the same time, changes in the structure of production were hastened by...

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