New York Times (August 18)
“Some of the images from NASA’s flagship Terra and Aqua satellites are downright heartbreaking. They seem to make the case that we’re inexplicably intent on engineering our own expulsion from the garden, in a kind of late-breaking, self-inflicted Old Testament dismissal… Having dodged the bullet of cold war nuclear annihilation, we face a new threat just as global, man-made and potentially lethal. A sense of emergency is what is urgently needed.”
Tags: Cold war, Emergency, Global, Heartbreaking. Expulsion, Lethal, Man-made, NASA, Nuclear annihilation, Satellites, Self-inflicted, Threat
Euromoney (August Issue)
“The value of mergers and acquisitions by Japanese companies of those in southeast Asia has reached $8.2 billion over this year to date, according to Dealogic, further demonstrating Japan’s relative strength on a regional and global basis. That makes Japan the highest single-country bidder for any southeast Asian companies.”
Tags: Global, Highest bidder, Japan, M&A, Southeast Asia, Strength
The Economist (August 10)
China’s emissions are a worldwide concern. “Since 1990 the amount of CO2 pouring from Chinese smokestacks has risen from 2 billion tonnes a year to 9 billion—almost 30% of the global total. China produces nearly twice as much CO2 as America. It is no longer merely catching up with the West. The average Chinese person produces the same amount of CO2 as the average European.”
Institutional Investor (March 21)
“One of the victims of Japan’s tsunami was somewhat unexpected: The Global IPO market.” A number of companies, many with no connection to Japan, postponed their IPOs. The IPO market began the year in a much healthier state, but jittery investors raised fears of “a sharp post-offering slide,” even for those issuers who successfully complete their offerings.
