By CECILIE ROHWEDDER London Many of Twenty8Twelve’s clothes—like ripped jeans, oversize tops and scarves—faintly evoke the style of its famous backer: actress, model and paparazzi-magnet Sienna Miller. But, shhh, the brand isn’t advertising that Miller sister’s connection. Enlarge Image Close William Widmer for The Wall Street Journal Savannah Miller is creative director of Twenty8Twelve, started [...]

Por CHARLES ROTH Vale está entrampada entre Brasilia y Beijing. Y pese a que las cosas se ven mejor para la minera en Brasil, China está erosionando el panorama. Ser un campeón nacional brasileño, como Vale —que el gobierno controla efectivamente— y como Petróleo Brasileiro, tiene su precio. Petrobras, por ejemplo, debe subsidiar los precios [...]

By ANGUS LOTEN Small brick-and-mortar retailers who recently may have taken Amazon.com for a new and powerful friend are likely thinking twice these days. Last month, the online shopping giant joined these small stores in their long-running battle to force Web-based retailers to collect out-of-state sales taxes – an exemption that enables many online retailers [...]

By DENNIS NISHI Corrections & Amplifications Sara Mast turned her love of documentary film into a career in reality television. She began by taking a low-paying production job to make ends meet. Now she’s an executive producer for “The Hills,” an MTV reality show that follows the personal lives of a fashion-design student and her [...]

Por SHARON TERLEP, CHRISTINA ROGERS e EYK HENNING A montadora italiana Fiat SpA está tentando formular um plano para adquirir a parte da Chrysler Group LLC que ela ainda não tem e, então, abrir o capital da empresa combinada nos Estados Unidos para recompor seu caixa, disseram pessoas a par das negociações. A Fiat está [...]

By TOM HERMAN As the tax-filing deadline draws closer, beware of scam artists trying to lure you into handing over sensitive personal financial information that can be used to steal your identity and raid your financial accounts. Some crooks even try to pose as the Internal Revenue Service. Their emails, which may include an official-looking [...]

By RACHEL LOUISE ENSIGN Alina Lane’s 2012 tax refund came in the mail last week. But she planned how to spend the money long before it arrived. The 26-year-old will put a chunk of the roughly $3,800 refund toward paying her student loans from dental school after her residency ends. “When I finish the program, [...]

By ELIZABETH GARONE In this economy, you need to take advantage of every available resource to propel your career. Finding a mentor—and preferably a network of mentors—is an easy and smart way to get started. And, it won’t set you back financially the way hiring a career coach would. Here’s how. Develop a circle of [...]

By MICHAEL TOTTY M edical detective work may have just gotten a lot easier. Just how difficult it is gets highlighted every time an infectious disease sweeps the globe, as the new strain of swine flu did earlier this year. Current methods of testing for disease-causing microbes are pretty effective at discovering whether an infected [...]

By TOM LAURICELLA The competition is heating up in the market for exchange-traded funds that mature like bonds—and 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 [...]