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  • Volcanic boom: Winning companies April 22, 2010
    There's a silver lining to every cloud, even the one made up of volcanic ash. While air carriers are licking their wounds from losing an estimated $200 million a day due to the eruption of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland, many other firms are smacking their chops at the opportunity to attract new customers. So who got rolling as the planes stayed on the ground?
  • What China Inc. wants next March 29, 2010
    For only the second time in recent history, a large, thriving, privately owned Chinese company has stepped up and stepped out -- buying a big brand known the world over.
  • Will Greece turn from euros to gyros? March 24, 2010
    Athens is abuzz with a rumor: Greece might leave the euro zone and adopt a new currency -- a Greek euro, so to speak, something of a cross between a drachma and a euro to be used only internally. Some hungry economists have jokingly given the new money a nickname: the "Gyro."
  • Welcome to the United States of Iceland March 11, 2010
    It's time to start paying attention to the financial sinkhole that Iceland is trying to climb out of -- the view from inside of it is eerily similar to our own.
  • Emerging markets at home February 16, 2010
    It has become an investing truism of late: If you want stocks with high-octane potential, you're wise to invest in the fast-growing economies of emerging markets. The result has been frenzied demand for such stocks and skyrocketing valuations.
  • What happens if China's 'bubble' pops? February 5, 2010
    World-renowned short seller Jim Chanos -- the hedge fund manager who called the fall of Enron and the systemic problems cause by subprime mortgages --recently turned his gimlet eye on China. He saw a country whose rapid rise was hiding massive flaws: grossly inflated real estate prices, irresponsible construction lending, massive overbuilding, a banking system larded with bad loans, and unreliable government data. Fitch Ratings weighed in this week saying that China's banks face the greatest "bubble risk" of any Asian country.
  • China's ahead in the green-tech race February 24, 2010
    Quick: which nation builds the most wind turbines? If you guessed America, with its blustery Great Plains dotted with whirring GE blades, you'd be wrong. In 2009, China became the planet's largest producer.
  • Sovereign wealth funds on the hunt February 16, 2010
    After months of relative silence, sovereign wealth funds, the huge, state-owned vehicles that export-rich countries use to invest their reserves, are on the prowl again.
  • Ukraine online: You've got crop reports! February 16, 2010
    The U.S. is helping Eastern Europe connect to the Internet in an effort to spur development.
  • Playing the China boom December 11, 2009
    It happens every weekday: A group of ladies gathers at the cavernous, badly lit stock-brokerage office on Shanghai's Xiangyang Lu in what was once, when China was colonized by European powers last century, known as the French Concession. There are usually at least four, and sometimes as many as eight.
  • The unstoppable Fung brothers December 9, 2009
    On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, William Fung, the CEO of Li & Fung Limited, a large Hong Kong-based sourcing company founded by his grandfather, awoke in his Boston hotel room with an inexplicable urge to meet his sister, who lives in San Francisco, for lunch at their favorite sushi restaurant there.
  • What on earth is up with 'Russia's GPS?' December 1, 2009
    Russia's ballyhooed satellite communications system (and Putin's pet project) suffers technical setbacks and malfunctioning devices.
  • New ETF is a way into smaller China November 11, 2009
    If Burton Malkiel, author of the famous "A Random Walk Down Wall Street" and Princeton University economist, is right, the majority of U.S. investors aren't profiting enough from China's rapid growth.
  • China's record debt has economists worried December 11, 2009
    In a world still awash in economic worry, China has stood apart as the one country that has come through the global slump with only the briefest of hiccups.
  • French bankers bid 'adieu' to guaranteed bonuses November 5, 2009
    Banks in France, including non-French ones, will no longer be allowed to offer guaranteed bonuses to traders and other staff under new rules announced Nov. 5. The only exception is for signing bonuses for new employees, and they are limited to a maximum of one year.
  • Preparing China's yuan for the world stage November 16, 2009
    President Barack Obama's visit to China this week has increased the spotlight on one of the top hot-button issues in U.S.-China relations: revaluing the Chinese currency.
  • Disney comes to China November 4, 2009
    China's announcement on Wednesday that Walt Disney could go ahead with its long-planned theme park in Shanghai raised a few eyebrows in Hong Kong. That's because Disney's first foray into the China market, via Hong Kong in 2005, has been tepid at best -- and embarrassing at worst.
  • Tax-free Champagne, anyone? October 29, 2009
    Not even Franz Kafka could have dreamed this one up.
  • Forget China, Brazil's a cheaper investment October 28, 2009
    Brazil has a lot of reasons to celebrate these days. It recently won the competition to host the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, as well as the 2014 World Cup.
  • It's China's world. (We just live in it) October 8, 2009
    You wouldn't think the men who run the oil-rich country of Nigeria would have much spring in their step these days. The nation is plagued by a never-ending guerrilla war, one that has trimmed the country's oil production to two-thirds of its potential capacity.

  • Hillary Clinton to Big Business: Cough it up! February 22, 2012
    The Secretary of State wants American companies to focus their efforts -- and their cash piles -- on spurring job growth by investing at home and abroad.
  • The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs February 22, 2012
    Mike Daisey has released the script of his controversial monologue on the Internet
  • Tableau to IPO next year February 22, 2012
    Tableau Software is planning to go public in 2013, Fortune has learned.
  • Receptos raises $50 million February 22, 2012
    MS drug developer nets big money.
  • Chris Christie is wrong on Buffett February 22, 2012
    Chris Christie's blunt talk crosses the line.
  • Greece deal pits investors against the government February 22, 2012
    The Greek bailout could keep investors from making additional sovereign debt purchases, further exacerbating the crisis.
  • How Amazon beats Android February 22, 2012
  • Wealth advice from Arianna's mom February 22, 2012
    When I ask powerful women what made them who they are, they often tell me about their parents and then say, "Oh, my mother...!"
  • Jon Stewart's private equity ommision February 22, 2012
    Late last month I made a short cameo on The Daily Show, as part of a larger segment on Bain Capital.Being eminently narcissistic, I watched the clip without bothering to watch Jon Stewart's subsequent Bain-related interview with Yale finance professor Jonathan Macey (who I recently criticized for ignoring dividend recaps in a PE-defending op-ed). But I did get around to it yesterday -- the full, unedited version -- and wanted to note two things for those who also saw it:
  • The iPhone is (still) saving the mobile industry February 22, 2012
    FORTUNE -- The iPhone has been, by many measures, one of the most successful products in business history. Nearly 200 million iPhones have been sold in four and a half years, 37 million of them in the last three months of 2011. Apple's market cap has soared from $104 billion in June 2007, when the first iPhone was sold, to $480 billion today.
  • Larry Page: Google should be like a family January 20, 2012
    In an exclusive interview with Fortune, Larry Page, Google's original CEO, who reassumed the position a year ago, speaks with obvious pride about the "family" environment Google tries to encourage, how it differs from his own grandfather's workplace, and how free food encourages people to eat less. And while he doesn't rule out charging for those meals one day, don't count on its happening anytime soon.
  • 'I work for a Best Company!' January 20, 2012
    Interesting assignments, unfaltering support, stints abroad: No wonder these folks love their workplaces.
  • 25 top-paying companies January 28, 2012
    Engineers at Devon Energy take home an average $178,305 total compensation annually. See which other Best Companies to Work For offer big paychecks.
  • 25 Top Companies for Leaders January 6, 2012
    These companies go above and beyond the call of duty when it comes to grooming talent.
  • How do great companies groom talent? January 5, 2012
    You can't build a great business without nurturing from within. Meet the firms that are doing it right.
  • Toyota back on track February 9, 2012
  • 100 Best Companies to Work For January 19, 2012
  • 100 Best Companies to Work For January 27, 2012
  • The future issue December 29, 2011
  • Investor's Guide 2012 December 8, 2011

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