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China Kanghui looks like a done deal: It appears Medtronic closed it. For the record Mr D Cameron Findlay was the contact officer o...

I got a lot of nominations for CEO dead-pool but very few with clearly enunciated reasons and the reasons are what is going to determine th...

There is an old-and-in-bad-taste game of celebrity dead-pool. The object is to pick famous people who will die in the next six months. Point...

Nick Hempton (my cousin), his eponymous band and Champian Fulton (my friend) are playing at the Smithfield Sunday Sessions - 8.30 pm on Su...

Yesterday's post did not get much traction because the punch line was at the end. So here is the short version. I asked this man ( D...

I have spent considerable time pondering dumb deals done by Carlyle in China. Indeed I wrote a  post  that suggested that Carlyle's du...

Focus Media has accounts that suggest it is massively cash generative. According to their accounts they are sitting on over $500 million in ...

Not an investing post at all. Just using the power of a blog with a lot of readers to ensure something gets done and to make a record of wha...

The WantWant China Times just published a short article under the title  Canny securities firms shower fund companies with treats . What i...

The adverts on an LCD screen are worth more in a high-traffic location than a low traffic location. They are worth more when people are pred...