TOKYO, June 21 AFP June 21 2013, 9:05PM Tokyo investors will be eyeing key Japanese economic data next week as the market continues to digest the implications of a possible winding down of Fed stimulus later this year, dealers say. After weeks of wild volatility that saw the Nikkei briefly tumble about 20 per cent […]

A new report from IDC Manufacturing Insights — “Business Strategy: The Journey Toward the People-Intensive Factory of the Future” — claims that manufacturers, faced with tough economic challenges and a more complex marketplace — are rethinking how they operate. The survey points to the following key findings: The factory of the future will be measured […]

EUR Bulls And Bears Retreat To Lick Wounds Dean Popplewell Contributor Will EUR Bulls Face The FOMC Matador? Dean Popplewell Contributor As expected, Chairman Ben Bernanke and his buddies at the U.S. Federal Reserve were hawkish, but being aggressively so against expectations has reopened many of this month’s asset class price wounds. Yesterday, the Fed […]

General Motors is a new company. That’s right—the old, hulking (and recently bankrupt) giant of American industry has the DNA of a startup. That fact wasn’t clear to me until recently, when I sat down with Plant Manager Bill Tiger and Lead Human Resource/Labor Relations Manager John Raut at GM Baltimore Operations, located in White […]