Harvard Professor Ricardo Hausmann: Redistribution or Inclusion?
The issue of rising income inequality loomed large at this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos. As is well known, the United States’ economy has grown significantly over the past three decades, but More...
ICL Buys Germany’s Prolactal
Israel’s ICL, a global manufacturer of products that fulfill essential needs in the agriculture, processed food and engineered materials markets, announced that its ICL Food Specialties business unit More...
Mikhail Khodorkovsky Says Putin’s Support is Evaporating
– Regardless of a nearly 80% approval rating for Vladimir Putin, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who was once the richest man in Russia but is now living in exile in Zurich, thinks support for the More...
Dow Chemical, Loeb’s Third Point settle board debate
– Dow Chemical Co said it would add four independent directors to its board as part of an agreement with Daniel Loeb‘s hedge fund, Third Point LLC, avoiding a proxy battle. Shares of the largest More...
ICL IP Starts Production at New Israel Plant
ICL, a global manufacturer of products based on specialty minerals announced that its ICL Industrial Products segment has initiated start-up activities of its manufacturing facility in Israel for the production More...
Idan Ofer’s Israel Chemicals to Close Magnesium Plant Citing Costs
Israel Chemicals Ltd. (TASE: ICL) board of directors has instructed the company’s management to prepare to close its magnesium plant by January 1 2017 because, “as discussions are with the government More...
Israel Economy: Trade Data for July and January-July 2014
– Bottom line: The trade data for July contained no good news; rather there were several indications that things are getting worse. Exports continued to display weakness almost across the board, while More...
Harvard Professor Ricardo Hausmann: The Real Raw Material of Wealth
– Poor countries export raw materials such as cocoa, iron ore, and raw diamonds. Rich countries export – often to those same poor countries – more complex products such as chocolate, cars, More...
Rehypothecation
– Frankly, I don’t expect many readers to be familiar with the term above, let alone to know what it means. So let’s begin by turning to the fount of all knowledge in our age — Wikipedia. Here More...
Israel Chemicals (ICL) To Acquire Vale’s Majority Stake Of Brazil’s Fosbrasil S.A.
– Fosbrasil produces purified phosphoric acid and raw materials for fertilizers. Acquisition Expands ICL Performance Products’ Position in Global Markets for Purified Phosphoric Acid While Expanding More...