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...price peaked at $552 a share last spring, then fell to a 52 week low of $55. The stock last traded at $112 on the New York Stock exchange. Oz Mineral's stock price hit AU$0.55 when trading was suspended in December. Minmetal's will pay a 50% premium on that. Clearly, for China - whose voracious appetite for metals and minerals drove commodity prices sky high until last year's bust - the timing is now right. "These [Chinese] companies know this slump, while deep, will not last forever," says Xu Minle, a Shanghai-based analyst at logistics company...
...succeed, Gates will need backing from Obama, along with a plan to spend defense dollars more smartly, during the recession. Despite the protestations of lawmakers, defense spending is an inefficient way to create jobs because the skills that defense jobs demand require premium paychecks. (Civilians working on missile defense for Boeing in Arizona earn three times the state average, the company boasts--great for them, but not so good for taxpayers or the unemployed.) Gates has sent the White House $10 billion in military projects to include in the stimulus package--barracks, hospitals, clinics, child-care centers--that can more...
...land invasions by local farmers who chop down cacao to plant faster-yielding banana trees. "They destroy the forest forever," Rosenberg complains, pointing to a hole in one of his plantation's barbed-wire fences. Jorge Redmond, president of Chocolates El Rey, a Venezuelan company that has been processing premium cacao since 1929, says El Rey saw almost 865 acres (350 hectares) decimated recently when 40 families invaded. "A 10-year effort was destroyed in days," he says. "We were able to produce one batch of San Joaquin Private Reserve chocolate before this happened, but we will never taste that...
...Recent figures from media companies show that their online businesses are performing poorly as the recession worsens. The job of making money from premium content becomes even more difficult. There may be a simple reason for this. Almost everything on the intenet is free, even The New York Times . People get used to that. If those consumers coming online to see free content aren't substantially more appealing to advertisers than people who read magazines or watch TV, the entire system that has been created to make money on the next generation of content delivery won't work...
...bonus. But it does the raise the question: What, exactly, does a Wall Streeter produce? If a banker or a trader brings in $10 million of profit for his or her firm, it seems reasonable that the individual should get a cut of it. There's also a scarcity premium involved. Presumably, there are only so many folks out there who can bring in $10 million or $100 million in a given year, so you have to include some pay-to-stay money...