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Por MARCUS WALKER e CHARLES FORELLE Há cada vez mais sinais de que os mercados financeiros europeus acreditam que a crise de dívida da zona do euro está perdendo força — o euro subiu para perto de seu ponto mais alto em dez meses na semana passada —, mas a fraqueza da atividade econômica na [...]

By MELISSA KORN Business-school professors are making a morality play. Four years after the scandals of the financial crisis prompted deans and faculty to re-examine how they teach ethics, some academics say they still haven’t gotten it right. Melissa Korn reports on Markets Hub. Photo: Getty Images. Four years after the scandals of the financial [...]

By PAUL BECKETT With Satyam safely sold and the nation’s attention squarely on the slanging match that passes for an election campaign, it might seem like India’s biggest corporate scandal will gently fade to black. Paul Beckett In a way, it will. B. Ramalinga Raju, Satyam’s founder and self-confessed fraudster, sits in a Hyderabad jail [...]

By DIANA RANSOM From smSmallBusiness.com MANY SOCIAL VENTURES—even the ones that eventually become self-sustaining—may never yield enough of a financial return to attract traditional backers or investors. As a result, a social entrepreneur’s task of raising financing poses unique challenges. For one thing, social ventures are often structured as nonprofits, which means they can’t offer [...]

By KRISTINA PETERSON, PETER NICHOLAS and JACK NICAS Enlarge Image Close Reuters Members of the House of Representatives leave the U.S. Capitol, adjourning after their final vote of the day on Friday. In a deal expected to end long delays for fliers soon, Congress speedily approved a bill to revoke the furlough of federal air-traffic [...]

By SUSHIL CHEEMA Ian and Barbara White-Thomson are selling their dream summer house, an oceanfront five-bedroom on Peaks Island, near Portland, Maine. They bought it only three years ago. But it’s become a 4,208-square-foot burden. Maine Dilemma View Slideshow Bob Delaney Ian and Barbara White-Thomson’s second home on Maine’s Peaks Island. The couple, who make [...]

By SARAH E. NEEDLEMAN (See Corrections & Amplifications item below.) BANDERA, Texas — In hard times, some small-town Americans are turning to a new livelihood with relish. Among them are Andrea and Ben Guajardo. They began selling hot dogs from a pushcart on Main Street in November. Ms. Guajardo is a grant administrator for a [...]

By PAUL BECKETT New Delhi Scene One – The grungy, dimly-lit upstairs conference room at the Press Club of India on Monday afternoon. About 20 journalists, maybe less, sit under the creaking fans; a lone, dusty water cooler surrounded by glasses sits on a table at the back. Two officials from National Election Watch and [...]

By JOSEPH EPSTEIN One of the enduring mysteries of literary history is the appearance in 19th-century Russia, that vast and barbarous country, of the greatest writers of fiction in all of literature. Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoyevsky are supreme among the novelists of all nations, with Ivan Turgenev not far behind. Then there is Anton [...]

Por DAISUKE WAKABAYASHI, de Tóquio A Sony informou na quinta-feira que deve fechar o atual ano fiscal com um aumento de 16% no lucro líquido, ao fazer melhorias na parte operacional para estancar uma hemorragia financeira em sua divisão de eletrônicos. Na próxima etapa da campanha do diretor-presidente Kazuo Hirai para promover uma virada do [...]