...isk control Korea Investment & Securities is enhancing its private equity operations as the nation’s major brokerage seeks to get ahead in the burgeoning domestic hedge fund industry. Chief executiv...ces will last longer.” Ryu said seven years of his sales experience spent in London during the 1990s impressed upon him the importance of retaining the best talent. He said Korea Investment does this...

Latest products from Korea’s top auto parts maker turn heads at Seoul Motor Show Hyundai Mobis Co., South Korea’s largest automobile parts manufacturer, is grabbing the limelight at the Seoul Motor Show with its latest products emphasizing environmental and human values as well as technological edge. The event is underway at the KINTEX exhibition center in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province on the large...

TOKYO (AP) ― Moody’s Investors Service warned Wednesday it may downgrade its credit rating for Toyota Motor Corp. due to the financial fallout from suspended car production following the March 11 qua...ations. Moody’s said it would take “many months” for Toyota to return to normal production. Toyota’s long-term uncollateralized debt rating is currently set at “Aa2” by Moody’s. The rating agency sai...

...this year. Such a move usually involves boosting interest rates, although the minutes from the Fed’s closed-door meeting on March 15 did not specify that. The minutes, which were released Tuesday, al...number of challenges facing the economy, which all the members agreed was improving. At last month’s meeting, the Fed offered its most optimistic assessment of the economy since the recession. Fed po...

...crops thrive in high rainfall areas. The sugar of the moist Caribbean is one example. However, what’s grown in tropical climates often can’t be stored long. This was especially true in the days before...ntries, and therefore had amassed the human capital necessary for democracy. In other words, Israel’s democracy was created before Israel itself. Here’s a current example of the Haber-Menaldo theory:...

BERKELEY ― Between 1950 and 1990 ― the days of old-fashioned inflation-fighting downturns engineered by the U.S. Federal Reserve ― America’s post-recession unemployment rate would fall on average 32.4 percent over the course of a year from its initial value toward its natural rate. If the U.S. unemployment rate had started to follow such a path after peaking in the second half of 2009, it would n...

JACKSON, Georgia (AP) ― An enormous tree limb that crashed through a Georgia family’s bedroom killed a father and the young son he was holding in his arms Tuesday as a fast-moving storm system pounde...f his father, Alix Bonhomme Jr., in a sight so wrenching that even grizzled rescuers wept. Bonhomme’s fiancee, Marcie Moorer, and the couple’s younger son were cowering in another room during the stor...

...ccessful, the research might help ascertain the identity of the woman depicted in Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece ― a mystery that has puzzled scholars and art lovers for centuries and generated count...ocuments showing that the Giocondo family made generous donations to the convent, and said Giocondo’s will arranged for his wife’s remains to be kept in the convent. The project falls within a curren...