THERE were the starlings: aerobatic teams with mesmerising group displays. There were the albatrosses: Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner and Airbus’s A380, heavy airliners that still manage long, effortless flight. And there ...
FOUR years ago Brazil struck oil—up to 350km (220 miles) offshore and buried under deep water and thick layers of rock, sand and corrosive salt. In places, the oil fields ...
Larry Rohter, a DealBook colleague, is the author of “Brazil on the Rise: The Story of a Country Transformed” (Palgrave Macmillan), which came out this week. He writes about the ...
Burgers and beer — an American meal if there ever was one — could soon have a distinctly Brazilian flavor. Burger King Holdings is in advanced talks to sell itself ...
Over the last two decades, the number of children of foreign-born parents has doubled, while the number of children of native-born Americans has fallen, according to a new report from ...
11:02 a.m. | Updated Burger King is in advanced talks to sell itself to a little known private investment firm called 3G Capital, people involved in the negotiations told DealBook ...
Reinhart and his wife Carmen Reinhart presented a paper at the symposium that finds the U.S., Germany and other advanced economies may face a decade of slow growth and high ...
THERE were the starlings: aerobatic teams with mesmerising group displays. There were the albatrosses: Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner and Airbus’s A380, heavy airliners that still manage long, effortless flight. And there ...
THE merits of high-frequency trading (HFT) are under scrutiny in America, thanks to the “flash crash” of May 6th when the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged by nearly 1,000 points ...
AS A child growing up in Afghanistan, Saad Mohseni watched his father listening to the BBC World Service and Voice of America: they were almost the only way of obtaining ...
AFTER 89 years in the skies, North America’s oldest airline seems ready to ditch. Compañía Mexicana de Aviación filed for bankruptcy protection on August 2nd and has been in a ...
THE machine that sputtered badly during the slump in world trade is now firing on all cylinders. Figures released on August 13th showed that the German economy grew by 2.2% ...
The high-speed rail link China Railway Construction Corp. is building in Saudi Arabia doesn’t just connect the holy cities of Mecca and Medina. It shows how Asia, the Middle East, ...
Each week adds a new item to the growing list of grievances between the United States and China. The value of China’s currency, arms to Taiwan, human rights in Tibet, ...
In Washington, on Wall Street, and in anxious boardrooms and kitchens across the country, concerns are rising about the possibility that the U.S. economy could slip back into recession—a so-called ...
