A new report from A.T. Kearney featured in theWSJ Real Time Economics blogsuggests that we probably need only three major auto companies. Right now they count seven — Ford (F), GM (GM), Chrysler, Toyota (TM), Honda (HMC), Nissan (NSANY)and Hyundai (HYMLF.PK). Among the other th...
Selling on Amazon is HUGE in China. In fact, by our own research, Chinese sellers make up over 63% of all third-party sellers on Amazon. And the number of Chinese businesses selling online to foreign consumers continues to soar –in 2023, cross-border e-commerce from Chinese sellers grew...
However, at a kid's birthday party one Saturday, a dad, who works in finance, came up to me and asked howmy WSJ bestselling bookwas doing. I told him nonchalantly that it was doing fine. Then he asked me when my next book was coming out. I told him probably sometime next yea...
The hardest part of making a movie isn't finding a movie idea or even the development process of writing a good movie script. It's getting someone to fund the process of bringing the story to life (do you have a million dollars lying around to fund a movie?). Fortunately, my lawyer ...
It’s 2023 and the old “you wouldn’t download a car” joke lost its appeal with the way so-called “ghost guns” are getting in criminals’ hands. Now, New York wants to do background criminal checks on anyone who wants to buy a 3D printer. ...
He also had a previous 10-year stint at the exchange from 1999 to 2009. He joined ASX in 1999 as its treasurer and “was then responsible for introduction of new interest rate futures products and customer management.” The judge in the ...
More Winners In A Rising Interest Rate Environment Exporters:As interest rates rise, the value of the US dollar rises because more foreigners want to own USD denominated assets. You need to buy US dollars tobuy US property, US stocks, US anything. An appreciating dollar will therefore hurt US...
The ultimate fix comes down to reducing the power of the passcode. We’re constantly told that we must create strong, unique passwords, and yet the most important device in many people’s lives is locked with nothing more than a six-digit passcode. Apple could protect users a...
Joe Nocera: I’ve just finished a couple of weeks in Delray Beach, Florida, and I have to tell you: It’s a whole different pandemic down here. The restaurants are full; the stores are hopping. Waiters and salespeople wear masks, but most other people don’t, not even in crowded bar...
Even if this increased scrutiny does not reveal all the existing fraud, the Kol- mogorov axiom of conditional probability allows us to derive an upper-bound (and thereby conservative) estimate of the detection likelihood, which in turn provides us with a lower-bound estimate of the pervasiveness...