| 1 Barclays Chief Is U.K.'s Best-Paid Banking Boss
Barclays
confirmed CEO Bob Diamond pocketed a $10.58 million bonus for 2010 and
nearly £14 million in Barclays shares tied to prior years' incentive
plans, making him the best-paid British banking boss.
Obama Restarts Terrorism Tribunals
The
Obama administration lifted its freeze on new military trials at
Guantanamo Bay and for the first time laid out its legal strategy to
indefinitely detain prisoners who the government says can't be tried but
are too dangerous to be freed.
2 • AGENDA: King Right on Inflation, Wrong on Banks 3 • Pressure Mounts on Prince Andrew 4 • Trichet Says Central Banks Eyeing Inflation • Moody's Downgrades Greece • Broadbent to Replace Sentance at BOE 6 • Plastic Surgeon and Net's Memory Figure in Google Face-Off in Spain • France Investigates Attack on Computers • Chirac Trial Suspended on First Day 7 • Fed Unlikely to Remove Its Economic Stimulus Just Yet • CAPITAL JOURNAL: As Budget Battle Rages On, a Quiet Cancer Grows • Consumers Ratchet Up Borrowing 8 • Beef Industry Carves a Course • Deficit-Cut Salesmen Hit the Road • GOP Sen. Ensign Won't Run Again in Nevada 9 • Gadhafi's Circle Debates Regime's End • Bahrain Protesters Defy Police • Oman Removes Powerful Economy Minister 10 • Behind Libya Rifts, Tribal Politics • Egypt Arrests Security Officials • Israel Considers Military 'Upgrade' 11 • Gates Apologizes to Karzai • Heavy Fighting Erupts in Western Ivory Coast • U.N. Says World Vulnerable to Food Crises 12 • China Looks to Lift Imports • North Korea Pressures Would-Be Defectors • Taiwan Spy Case Centers on Lockheed System |
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| 13 Obama's Libyan Abdication
Will the U.S. let Gadhafi slaughter his way back to power?
Europe Hectors America
One reason it's hard to take Europe seriously.
The Tokyo Campaign Finance Inquisition
Complex rules reduce transparency and protect the ruling elite.
14 OPINION • The Euro's Debatable Future 15 OPINION • A Political Currency • GEORGE P. SHULTZ, WILLIAM J. PERRY, HENRY A. KISSINGER AND SAM NUNN: Deterrence in the Age of Nuclear Proliferation |
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| 16 TV's Next Wave: Tuning In to You
Data-gathering
firms and technology companies are aggressively matching people's
TV-viewing behavior with other personal data and using it to help
advertisers buy ads targeted to shows watched by certain kinds of
people. 15th in a series.
17 • China Media Push Into the Web |
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| 32 Field of Unlikely Dreams in Hanoi
When
an American businessman started the Hanoi Capitals baseball team two
years ago, the boys struggled to get a hit. The team—still without a
real diamond—recently won Vietnam's first youth baseball tournament.
Tip of the Day
Ukraine's Shakhtar Donetsk is poised to advance to the Champions League quarterfinals when it plays host to AS Roma on Tuesday.
33 • Green Movement's New Mascot: the Slimy Snot Otter 34 • WORLD AT A GLANCE: World Watch 35 • BUSINESS AT A GLANCE: Business Watch |
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| 21 Toyota Moves to Downsize Its Board
Toyota
will unveil a long-term strategic plan that will cut sharply the number
of board members, a move that has renewed long-simmering tensions
within the Japanese auto maker's management.
Bulgari Gives LVMH a Bump
LVMH,
already the luxury-goods industry's No. 1 player, is propelling itself
far ahead of its two main rivals with takeover of Italian jeweler
Bulgari —an acquisition that bolsters the high-fashion-and-jewelry
industry's strategy of grouping many labels under one roof.
Merger to Create PC Drive Giant
In
a deal that caps a wave of consolidation and will create a dominant
supplier of computer disk drives, Western Digital agreed to buy
Hitachi's disk-drive business for about $4.3 billion in cash and stock
22 • Leather Costs Hit by Supply Squeeze 23 • Daimler, Rolls Eye Engine Maker • Warner Bros. Fires Charlie Sheen 24 • BOSS TALK: Coffee Talk: Starbucks Chief on Prices, McDonald's Rivalry • Kuoni Buys Gullivers Travel • Subway Runs Past McDonald's Chain 25 • Deutsche Bank Lifts Its Profile in the U.S. • ING Targets State Repayment 26 • Nomura Promotes Foreigner, Female to Senior Roles 27 • European Shares Decline 28 • Banks Get Back to the People Business • BP to Keep Algeria Assets 31 • Life After CEO • Finance and Tech Signal Bold Attitudes on Ethics |
| 36 HEARD ON THE STREET Still No Healthy Budget Allocations in China
Beijing
just isn't spending enough. A Ministry of Finance's report shows that
budget allocations for spending on health care and education remain
lackluster, leaving Chinese reluctant to spend more and save less.
HEARD ON THE STREET LVMH's Highly Priced Bulgari Jewel
Bulgari might prove a jewel in the strategic sense, but the financial returns appear significantly less mesmerizing.
HEARD ON THE STREET IBM Shows H-P How to Serve Clients
Technology's
consultants and outsourcers are doing brisk business. Still,
considering valuations and volatility, investors must tread carefully if
they wade into the sector.
Overheard
Citigroup
Chief Executive Vikram Pandit, a fan of pecan pie, has something of a
sweet tooth. And last week he seemed to be channeling his inner child.
"Being at Citi reminds me of being in a candy store. We have everything,
so whatever you want, we can offer it to you," he told students during
his passage to his home country of India last week. That's something of
an update from Citi's old financial-supermarket concept.
The intensely private Mr. Pandit has been loosening up a bit now
that Citi got the U.S. government out of its shareholder register,
turned losses into profits and lightened the burden of unwanted
businesses and bad loans. He even proclaimed relief last month that,
"We're no longer the world's biggest bank, thank God." Shareholders,
though, aren't as likely to loosen up as much until they get some
dividend candy, and that isn't likely until at least next year.
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| R1 Heavy Weather
The
European property market is finally emerging from its recessionary
deep-freeze, but there are still plenty of icy patches where investors
can slip.
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R2 • Streets on the Thames • Eastern Promises R4 • Bollinger Boulevards R6 • The East's Frozen Assets R7 • Live and Let High R8 • Europe's Top City Locations |
