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What’s On the Menu?
By AMY MA Chef Richard Ekkebus is a regular visitor to Hong Kong’s wet markets, where he samples vegetables harvested in the city’s green hinterland and buys fresh seafood plucked straight from the South China sea. But you won’t find many of these ingredients in the dishes he cooks at Amber, the two-starred Michelin restaurant [...]
Dell adelantará su informe de resultados trimestrales
Por DEBBIE CAI Dell Inc. anunció el martes que informará sus resultados del primer trimestre fiscal el jueves, tres dÃas hábiles antes de lo que estaba programado. La compañÃa tenÃa programado anunciar los resultados el 21 de mayo. El periodista de la cadena CNBC David Faber citó el martes a fuentes que afirman que los [...]
Swearing In the Enemy
By AYAAN HIRSI ALI Author Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who recently became a U.S. citizen, argues that immigration reform needs to include measures to detect the radically anti-American beliefs of some newcomers who seek to become Americans. On April 25, 2013, I took the oath to become a citizen of the United States. Perhaps only those [...]
The Cold Truth About Emotional Investing
By ANDREW BLACKMAN When it comes to investing, emotion is commonly seen as a weakness that must be shunned. But new research from professors David Tuckett and Richard Taffler suggests that emotions play an inevitable part in all investing, by amateurs and pros alike. Journal Report Insights from The Experts Read more at WSJ.com/WealthReport More [...]
A Soaring Space for Artifacts and Ideas
By H. GEORGE FLETCHER Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève/Michel Nguyen The daring exposure of the supporting ironwork emboldened later architects. Outside architectural circles, the name of Henri Labrouste (1801-75) is scarcely known in America. This undeserved fate is now being set to rights by a splendid exhibition at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. In Paris, by contrast, [...]
Too Clever by Half
By PETER PLAGENS Courtesy of the artist and Gana Art Gallery, Seoul ‘RW001-001′ (2004) by Seung Woo Back Minneapolis More Real? Art in the Age Of Truthiness Minneapolis Institute of Arts Through June 9 The history of art is filled with visual hoaxes, such as Arcimboldo’s 17th-century paintings of vegetables arranged to look like human [...]
To Blog or Not to Blog
By ALEXANDRA LEVIT A few years ago, experts would tell you that if you didn’t have a blog, your career would self-destruct. So, millions started them, even if writing a compelling post each day was their version of waterboarding. Then, there was a backlash. The same experts said the blogosphere was too crowded and you [...]
Investidor brasileiro entre os que assumem menos risco
Por MEIR STATMAN Quanto risco você está disposto a assumir? A recomendação tradicional na hora de tomar decisões de investimento é que temos que usar a razão, não a emoção. Mas, mesmo acreditando que temos de ser frios e analÃticos quando investimos, as emoções estão trabalhando sob a superfÃcie de uma forma que não podemos [...]
Exchange Finds the Pulse of Commodities Trading
By SHIBANI MAHTANI To feed Asia’s growing demand for commodities, India’s Financial Technologies group embarked on an ambitious projectâto establish a new pan-Asian exchange, focusing on select commodities and currency derivatives. Singapore Mercantile Exchange, one of the world’s newest, went live in August 2010. Though less than 2 years old, the exchange witnessed close to [...]
When Payroll Firms Implode
By ANGUS LOTEN Stephen Voss for The Wall Street Journal ‘It’s just such a terrible feeling,’ says Kerry Koletar, shown at her family’s Baltimore flower shop, which might be left on the hook for unpaid taxes. An estimated four in 10 business owners farm out management of their payrolls. But many, including Kerry Koletar of [...]
