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BUSINESS / NEWS Mon Apr 28, 2008 @ 8:18am neoform

BusinessWeek -- As production declines, state-run Pemex struggles to find new reserves under daunting restrictions on foreign involvement Carlos Morales Gil, head of exploration and production for Petróleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, Mexico's state oil company, is sunburne.. Read More

BUSINESS / NEWS Tue Dec 19, 2006 @ 2:08pm mrmdc

Yahoo News -- The Thai government said it would lift controls on foreign investment in stocks after the market plunged nearly 15 percent on Tuesday, rattling regional bourses amid worries about a repeat of the 1997 Asian financial crisis... Read More

BUSINESS / NEWS Tue Dec 19, 2006 @ 8:20am neoform

BBC News -- Thai stocks fell to their lowest in two years as foreign investors led selling in response to Bank of Thailand moves designed to halt currency speculation... Read More

BUSINESS / NEWS Tue Nov 7, 2006 @ 3:49pm mrmdc

Christian Science Monitor -- For China, it's a record buildup of foreign capital. For the rest of the world, it serves as a reminder: To an increasing degree, bureaucrats in Beijing aren't just guiding their own economy, but the world's as well... Read More

BUSINESS / NEWS Wed Jun 18, 2008 @ 8:15am neoform

BusinessWeek -- Presidential opponents McCain and Obama go head-to-head with competing plans for reducing U.S. reliance on foreign oil With gas prices rising and billions of additional dollars flowing to the Middle East to buy oil, energy policy is turning into a batt.. Read More

BUSINESS / NEWS Tue Apr 22, 2008 @ 8:23am neoform

BusinessWeek -- The H-1B system needs an overhaul. For now, let's award visas to the highest-paid foreign workers and top graduates from top U.S. schools The U.S. government will use a random computer lottery to determine which of 163,000 applicants receive the 85,000.. Read More

BUSINESS / NEWS Thu Nov 1, 2007 @ 8:14am neoform

CNN -- Detroit, Michigan, is often thought of as the automaker capital of the country, but increasingly, foreign auto plants are heading south, to a region known for more than its charm. Almost every foreign auto factory that's opened since the '90s has sprouted.. Read More

BUSINESS / NEWS Wed Aug 22, 2007 @ 11:00am neoform

New York Times -- For years, the Bush administration has shrugged off concerns about the trillions of dollars that the United States owes to China, Japan and oil-producing countries in the Middle East, arguing that these debts give no undue leverage to foreign governments... Read More

BUSINESS / OPINION Fri Jun 22, 2007 @ 4:46pm neoform

BusinessWeek -- Want to hire cheaper foreign workers instead of Americans? A lawyer tells you how to game the immigration system—and it's all on YouTube The video looks as though it could have been shot at almost any sleepy corporate seminar in the country, with one.. Read More

BUSINESS / OPINION Tue May 22, 2007 @ 11:22am neoform

BusinessWeek -- Global investing is hot, and finding a good foreign mutual fund is tough. Of the 16 diversified funds rated "A" in the foreign category by BusinessWeek, only these five are still open to new investors COLUMBIA ACORN INTERNATIONAL FUND Z (ACINX)5-yr. av.. Read More

BUSINESS / NEWS Tue May 15, 2007 @ 9:20am neoform

BusinessWeek -- Two senators are probing how Indian outsourcing firms use U.S. work visas, with an eye on new restrictions Concerns about foreign companies that benefit from a visa program designed to make the U.S. more competitive are taking center stage in Washingto.. Read More

BUSINESS / OPINION Mon May 7, 2007 @ 12:15pm neoform

Alter Net -- Leaders of developing countries are often forced to work with institutions that promote and protect foreign investment -- with little regard for the costs to democracy and the environment. When Bolivian President Evo Morales took office in January 2006.. Read More

BUSINESS / NEWS Mon Apr 23, 2007 @ 12:56am neoform

CNN -- Thailand's military-appointed legislature will debate proposed changes to foreign-business ownership rules this week that are still making foreign firms nervous despite government efforts to soothe their fears. Business chiefs fear foreign companies wi.. Read More

BUSINESS / NEWS Tue Feb 27, 2007 @ 3:42pm mrmdc

Bloomberg -- President George W. Bush's campaign to turn Iran into an economic pariah is being rebuffed from Spain to Malaysia as countries and companies pursue long-term agreements to tap into the world's second-largest reserves of oil and gas. Royal Dutch Shell P.. Read More

BUSINESS / NEWS Sat Feb 10, 2007 @ 10:55am neoform

Yahoo News -- The world's major developed economies show solid growth, but foreign exchange fluctuations, the rising power of hedge funds and dwindling energy supplies are a concern, G-7 finance officials said Saturday. The finance ministers and central bankers also.. Read More