Finance after the crisis

• Vigilante on the move
  

  In the first in a series of profiles of financial institutions after the crisis we look at PIMCO, a giant fund manager (1)

• • • Cerberus, a private-equity giant, gets back to its roots
  • • Time to reassess how fund managers are rewarded
    • (13)

Business in Russia

• Privatisation with a twist

  From the EIU: Russia’s proposed $30 billion share sale may not yield the beneficial effects that privatisation usually brings

• • • DST, Russia’s emerging internet giant, and its allies
    • (26)
  • • The Yukos case haunts Rosneft (Mar 2010)
    • (25)
  • • Doing business in Moscow: A trust-based society

The mining industry

• Light at the end of the shaft

  A restructuring is restoring the shine to Anglo American, one of the world’s biggest miners

• • • Zimbabwe's giant Marange diamond field may prop up Mugabe (Jun 2010)
    • (11)
  • • Norway's Norsk Hydro does a big aluminium deal with Brazil's Vale (May 2010)

China's workforce

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  The rising power of the Chinese worker

  In China’s factories, pay and protest are on the rise. That is good for China, and for the world economy (162)

• • • The next China: As the supply of migrant labour dwindles, the workshop of the world is embarking on a migration of its own
    • (8)
  • • Chinese labour unrest is forcing Japanese bosses to change
    • (8)
  • • Arthur Kroeber of Dragonomics on the end of surplus Chinese labour and the impact it will have

BP and its oil spill

• The wages of failure

  Despite the howls, Tony Hayward’s departure as boss of BP was deftly handled. And other firms are trying harder not to reward bad leadership (42)

• • • Beyond the Horizon: BP seeks to put its troubles behind it
  • • Tony Hayward's payoff is nothing compared with what other departing bosses got
    • (40)
  • • Louisiana's businesses are being hit hard by the leak

Book publishing

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  The Day of the Jackal

  A leading literary agent’s bold e-books deal has traditional publishers worried

• • • The sickliest part of the books business is the shops that sell them (Mar 2010)
    • (8)
  • • Paper books are doing fine (Mar 2010)
  • • Prospero, our new blog on books, arts and culture

Telefónica finally gets Brazil’s Vivo

• Brazil calling

  Telefónica overcomes Portugal’s objections to its takeover of Vivo by offering a fabulous price for the Brazilian jewel

• • • Portugal's government blocks the bid for Vivo (July 1st)
    • (4)
  • • PT and Telefónica squabble over Brazil (May 2010)
    • (4)

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