Por JON HILSENRATH A questão de zilhões de dólares hoje em dia é: quando o Federal Reserve, o banco central americano, pegará a rota de saÃda? Investidores, bancos e muitos outros participantes do mercado estão obcecados com a questão de quando terminará a polÃtica de relaxamento monetário e as suas amplas implicações. Quando o Fed [...]
By TOM LAURICELLA The competition is heating up in the market for exchange-traded funds that mature like bondsâand that is good news for investors worried that interest rates might rise. Journal Report Insights from The Experts Read more at WSJ.com/WealthReport More in Investing in Funds & ETFs A New Era for Do-It-Yourself Investing Four Tips [...]
Por DINNY MCMAHON en Taiyuan, China Miao Lingquan costumava pagar os agricultores de pimenta que compareciam em massa à frente da sua porta no tempo de colheita com dinheiro guardado em caixas empilhadas até a altura da sua cintura. Mas agora o escritório do empreendedor, que faz pasta de pimenta do tipo malagueta para exportar [...]
By RUPERT MELLOR Enlarge Image Close Cornelia Doerr Stroll to Piazza San Marco, the colonnaded square with more truly iconic buildings than most capital cities. ONCE THE WORLD’S premier mercantile superpower and matchless mecca of high culture, the newly Italian Venice was all washed up when in 1895 its leaders dreamed up a contemporary-art exhibition [...]
Por NICHOLAS HASTINGS El ejercicio de aumento de capital de Deutsche Bank no solo es una buena noticia para Deutsche Bank; también podrÃa serlo para el euro. El banco podrá ser alemán. Podrá figurar entre la élite de la zona euro. Y los casi 3.000 millones de euros que recaudó a través de la colocación [...]
By ALEXA BRAZILIAN Enlarge Image Close Tim Street-Porter INLAY ALL THE WAY | Furniture accented with mother-of-pearl abounds in rooms in Ms. Duke’s homes Shangri La. THE AMERICAN TOBACCO heiress Doris Duke (1912-93) was many things: philanthropist, horticulturalist, seductress, surfer, collector and world traveler. She was also a woman of many houses (eight, to be [...]
Por JON HILSENRATH Nos últimos anos, sempre que o presidente do Banco do Japão, Masaaki Shirakawa, se reunia com outros lÃderes de bancos centrais do mundo todo, muitas vezes fazia advertências, metodicamente preparadas, sobre os limites da polÃtica de dinheiro fácil que eles vinham seguindo. Shirakawa via o Banco do Japão como um pioneiro. Já [...]
By CHRIS HERRING It won’t involve the craze of Linsanity leaving town, but this coming off-season still figures to present a number of tough, important questions for the Knicks going forward. Two or three of those questions stand out above the rest: Does the team need to get substantially younger to lessen the risk of [...]
By ANJALI ATHAVALEY and RICHARD MORGAN Enlarge Image Close Clay Williams Mayor Michael Bloomberg addressing the New York Tech Meetup in 2011. The upcoming mayoral election will see the city’s growing technology sector play a bigger role in politics. New York’s burgeoning technology sector wants to flex its newfound political muscle in this year’s mayoral [...]
By SARAH E. NEEDLEMAN This week will bring the long-awaited opening up of a new realm of Web addresses in which just about any wordâsuch as dot-furniture or dot-arcticvacationsâcan serve as a domain name. And to some, that spells opportunity. Beginning Thursday, the organization that oversees the Internet will start accepting applications to manage new [...]