- Pakistanis Pay Economic Toll as Regrouping Taliban Threaten to Widen War Taliban fleeing a Pakistani offensive are regrouping in the country’s northwest, threatening to spread and prolong a conflict that has strained the nation’s economy and may hamper efforts to attract foreign investment.
- Playboy Wants Partners to Make Brand Bigger Over Next Decade, Hefner Says Playboy Enterprises Inc. needs to make strategic decisions to expand the men’s magazine publisher in the coming decade, according to former Chief Executive Officer Christie Hefner.
- Kindle, Sony Electronic Readers May Get Biggest Payoff From Textbook Sale As Sony Corp.’s e-book devices vie with the Kindle to win over readers, the real showdown may come later: when a shift to electronic textbooks at schools threatens to eclipse the current market for the products.
- Murdoch Targets Sulzberger as Newspaper Ad Slump Shifts Fight to Readers The New York Times and Wall Street Journal are pursuing readers from regional U.S. newspapers in their fight to survive the worst advertising declines in the industry’s history.
- Cadbury's Carr Stared Down Goldman and RWE as Preparation for Kraft Duel Roger Carr, Cadbury Plc’s chairman, once thwarted Goldman Sachs Group Inc., then led by former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, from bidding for pub chain Mitchells & Butlers Plc in 2006.
- China Banks Filling Syndicated Loan Void as Royal Bank, Citigroup Retreat Foster’s Group Ltd., Australia’s biggest brewer, never borrowed from China until this year, when Bank of China Ltd. helped arrange $500 million in loans to refinance debt.
- Lithuanian Chernobyl-Type Reactor's Closure May Produce Economic Fallout In a cavernous hall in northeast Lithuania, workers tear apart the first of the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant’s four two-story turbines. The growing piles of steel parts, tubes and cowlings will soon fill nearby storage buildings the size of aircraft hangars.
- Carney Shows How Canada Controls Risk So Central Banks Worldwide Can Too Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney, the former investment banker who helped the country avert the worst of the financial crisis, says Canada’s experience provides lessons for the world.
- Whitney Says Goldman Sachs Lost `Tremendous' Talent to Hedge Funds Meredith Whitney, the analyst who cut her rating on Goldman Sachs Group Inc. last month, said the bank has lost some of its top-performing employees as executives left to start their own investment companies.
Bloomberg Daily News 23rd November 2009
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