Por MIN ZENG Pacific Investment Management Co., el fondo de bonos más grande del mundo, redujo sus tenencias de deuda soberana española e italiana, en medio de un fuerte repunte en ambos mercados este mes. La firma de gestión de dinero ha estado vendiendo deuda europea en las últimas dos semanas como parte de reducción [...]
By JONNELLE MARTE As attendance at the annual Berkshire Hathaway Inc. shareholders’ meeting has ballooned over the years, mutual-fund managers say it’s become trickier to land some personal time with Warren Buffettâbut easier to take a piece of him home. Just ask Steven Check, manager of the $19 million Blue Chip Investor fund, who owns [...]
By RICHARD SNOW Early in 1914 Henry Ford, spurred by a combination of wanting to cut down the high turnover in his workforce and what seems to have been genuine altruism, announced that henceforth the base wage in his factory would be five dollars a day. This at a stroke doubled the prevailing salary for [...]
By CECILIE ROHWEDDER London Many of Twenty8Twelve’s clothesâlike ripped jeans, oversize tops and scarvesâfaintly 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 âque el gobierno controla efectivamenteâ 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 â 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, [...]
