Inflationary pressures and low unemployment continue to have an impact on rising wages as well as increased costs related to third party service providers, which we proactively monitor and manage. Provision for Income Tax Expense Provision for income t...
If no one has told Donald Trump, then I will: His nickname on Chinese social media today is “Chuan Jianguo” — meaning “Trump the (Chinese) Nation Builder”— because of how his relentless China bashing and tariffs during his first term as president lit a fire under Beijing to double ...
We expect Asian corporate and bank credit fundamentals to stay resilient, aside from a few sectors and specific credits which may be impacted by tariff threats or US policy changes. Asian equity outlook 2025 by Asian Equity Team — 05 December, 2024 Many may expect the incoming Trump ...
But to get there – to McConnell that is, I thought it worthwhile to first look at Fareed Zakaria’s early 2024 FA article, “The Self-Doubting Superpower: America Shouldn’t Give Up on the World It Made” Fareed has a large public role in assessing US international politics as the host...
Well, I guess we shouldn’t have been surprised. But since I’ve never spent time listening to Trump speeches – I thought I would listen to Trump’s Second Inaugural . As David Bernstein et al. at the Substack,“Good Politics/Bad Politics” called it: “An Ugly Speech”. And it was...
Join us at IBM100.com A Letter from the Chairman 1 Dear IBM Investor: I am pleased to report that IBM had another strong year in 2010. Your company continued to outperform our industry and the market at large. We once again achieved record pre-tax earnings, record earnings per share, ...
Our pretax income margin rose to 14.6 percent, an increase of 1.2 points. Both margins are at their highest in the past 10 years. Significantly, as I will discuss, they were achieved primarily by remixing our business to higher-value segments and by driving efficiency through global ...
a few years ago I developed an hour-long presentation entitled “Why Does Ma Hate the Indians?:Responding to Loaded Questions in First-Person Interpretation.” In it, I open discussion on the topic with a focus on how interpreters and other educators can navigate the most difficult aspects of...
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA I OPINION OF CHRISTOPHER GREENWOOD. OC I I I. Introduction I 1. My full name is Christopher John Greenwood. I am Professor ofInternational Law in the Law Department at the London School ofEconomics, a post I have held since 1996. I Prior to that date, I was ...
Additional Credits and ThanksCopyrightPrologue: The Day my World ChangedI COME FROM a country which was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday.One year ago I left my home for school and never returned. I was shot by a Taliban bullet and was flown out of ...