Anonymous “Slovenia is a great place to live, but it is not an optimum location for doing business,” was one of the key messages of the FDI Summit Slovenia 2016, which was attended by 100 leading representatives from business and…
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The future of share buybacks under Trump
By Theo Vermaelen “Buyback lovers were relieved after the defeat of U.S. presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton who was a vocal critic of share buybacks. Her criticism boils down to the argument that buybacks are short-term price manipulation tools and come at…
Trump’s ‘revolution’ between globalization and protectionism
By Antonio Lettieri “Maybe 2016 will be remembered as the year in which triumphed populism on both shores of the Atlantic, in the US with Donald Trump’s election and in Britain with Brexit. And 2017 could be the year in…
Questions for the potential next sheriff of Wall Street
By Andy Green, Andrew Schwartz, and Gregg Gelzinis “The movie image is iconic: The Wall Street wrongdoer, whose fraud was uncovered by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, is hauled off to face the music. Despite being only…
6 reasons why Trump is too weak to save American jobs
By Les Leopold “Donald J. Trump believes he can bully and bribe companies into keeping jobs in America. Shortly after his election, he “persuaded” Carrier, an Indianapolis division of United Technologies, to refrain from exporting 700 jobs to Mexico. Meanwhile, Rexnord,…
Kraft versus Unilever: A showdown postponed
By Simon Caulkin “Like a bubble sluggishly rising through murky waters, corporate governance is climbing the political agenda. Everyone intuits that something is wrong – including Theresa May and Donald Trump – but neither of them has an inkling how…
How the Democrats can hijack the tax reform debate
By Harold Meyerson “What with the president’s war on immigrants, his travel ban, his Putinphilia, his threats to Obamacare, and his cabinet picks, congressional Democrats have spent most of the last month busily saying “No,” with the occasional “Maybe” thrown…
Out-of-luck’ is gaining
By Maria Gutzeit “It’s not only the Rust Belt that feels angst. There is a line in this country above which you may survive, and below which life will be incredibly hard. Not hard as in “pull yourself up by…
Apple deserves to feel Trump’s pressure on jobs
By Eric Reguly “Donald Trump, now President, loved bashing the auto makers during the election campaign and his tirades worked a charm among the voters in the rust-belt states and the regions that have been swamped by Chinese and Mexican…
Why are stock markets soaring?
By Simon Caulkin “Shaking off the doomy prognostications of mainstream economists, stock markets on both sides of the Atlantic have surged since the Brexit vote in June and Donald Trump’s election as US president, hitting high after high. Why?”… [Click…
