Teknik pemasaran selalu menelurkan inovasi baru. Tapi, tak jarang ide itu kurang berhasil. 100 peti mati ke sejumlah perusahaan –di antaranya bergerak di bidang media–, memang mampu mencuri perhatian masyarakat. Namun, aksi Sumardy, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Buzz&co ini berbuah ganjaran pemeriksaan oleh aparat kepolisian dan dikenai wajib lapor. Dalam pengakuannya, Sumardy mengatakan pengiriman peti [...]

The Obama administration wants to help more struggling Americans stay in their homes by reducing the amount they owe on their troubled mortgages, a top Treasury official said on Saturday. “We are very definitely trying to facilitate more principal reductions,” said Timothy Massad, Treasury’s acting assistant secretary for financial stability. “It is a very important [...]

True confessions: I live in a bubble. Washington, D.C., the area I call home, appears to be one of the only two places in the country (the other being Seattle) where real estate is doing very well, thank you. So around me, I see home prices stable and rising, and houses getting sold within days [...]

NEW YORK  — Psssh. That’s the sound of the air being sucked out of the job recovery. All eyes in the financial world are on the government’s monthly labor report due Friday, hoping to see that the job market continued to grow in May. But after several indicators pointed to a recent slowdown in job [...]

A double-dip in home prices, pessimistic consumers and a slowdown in regional manufacturing raised concerns on Tuesday that the economy’s soft patch could become protracted. “The question is, ‘Is the softer data we’re seeing transitory, or is it likely to persist throughout the remainder of 2011?’ Right now, that’s an open question that investors are [...]

LONDON— Indonesia ternyata merupakan negara yang paling ramah bisnis di dunia. Survei BBC World Service menempatkan Indonesia sebagai negara yang memiliki budaya terbaik di dunia bagi orang-orang yang memulai bisnis baru. Indonesia bahkan mengungguli Amerika Serikat (AS), Kanada, India, dan Australia. Sebaliknya, Kolombia,Mesir,Turki, Italia, dan Rusia memiliki kultur yang kurang maju dalam inovasi dan kewirausahaan. [...]

Chicken drumsticks are finding their way to American dinner tables as a slowdown in exports has kept more of the dark meat in U.S. grocery stores and warehouses. Historically, chicken dark meat — long shunned by U.S. consumers in favor of white meat chicken breast — has largely been exported by U.S. chicken companies. Now, [...]

Produk makanan-minuman Malaysia membanjiri pasar Indonesia sejak berlakunya kesepakatan ASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement. Berlakunya perjanjian perdagangan bebas ASEAN-China menyulitkan ruang gerak industri lokal. Indonesia menjadi surga impor. “Minuman cokelat asal Malaysia gampang ditemukan daripada yang buatan Indonesia,” kata Yus Amin, 24 tahun, warga Nunukan, Kalimantan Timur. Makanan dan minuman dari negeri jiran itu memang [...]

Buying a new home can be an exciting time, whether it’s your first home or your fifth. However, your savings, your credit rating, and your financial freedom are all on the line when purchasing a new home. You want to feel comfortable when it is time to sign on the dotted line and feel good [...]

LOS ANGELES, Calif. – Three years into the mortgage meltdown, California homeowners still have little relief from the foreclosure crisis. Last week, state legislative committees failed to clear three separate bills designed to help struggling homeowners and hold banks more accountable during foreclosure proceedings. This news comes as the number of foreclosures continues to rise, [...]

If Congress does not raise the limit on U.S. government debt before the specter of default becomes reality this summer, President Barack Obama will need to decide which bills to pay — and choose between market mayhem and a firestorm over missed benefit payments. The Obama administration and lawmakers are locked in talks over how [...]

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With the government about to hit its $14.3 trillion debt limit, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has warned of “catastrophic” consequences and a new recession if Washington is not able to borrow more. A divided Congress has run out of time to raise the debt limit before Monday’s deadline, forcing Geithner into an emergency reallocation of [...]

It seemed like the perfect China play, a way for investors to cash in on the world’s fastest growing economy. China MediaExpress Holdings Inc, which provides advertising on buses that clog the smog-choked streets of the country’s largest cities, was on a tear on the Nasdaq stock exchange. After rising 45 percent in 2009, the [...]

When faced with unaffordable mortgage payments, your house can feel more like a cage than a home. You may feel trapped because it’s hard to know what to do to improve your situation, and you may just want to give up. Don’t give up! The reality is you don’t have to be a prisoner to [...]

The “Made in the USA” label may be poised for a comeback, a new study argues. The next few years will bring a wave of reinvestment by U.S. multinational manufacturers in their home base, as rising wages and a strong yuan currency make China a less attractive production center, the paper by the Boston Consulting [...]