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The Motley Fool December 22, 2004 Bill Mann	Deconstructing YUKOS Consider what happened with YUKOS. It's important to consider a country's political stability and property rights when you invest overseas. Just remember, your rights may not be protected.
HBS Working Knowledge December 20, 2004	Research Notebook: Calculating Costs Abroad The next big opportunity for your career or business may come by expanding to another country. Check out the U.S. Department of State's Web site for valuable information on the costs of living abroad.
The Motley Fool December 17, 2004 Rich Smith	YUKOS' Hollow Victory The Russian company wins a legal skirmish. The trick will be to figure out how to legally require a sovereign nation like Russia to agree to international arbitration of an internal (albeit possibly illegal) tax claim against one of its own domestic companies.
BusinessWeek December 27, 2004 Laura Cohn	A Strong Sterling -- And No Complaints Cheap goods from Asia are fueling the spending that's powering British growth. And the euro is up against the dollar -- way up.
InternetNews December 16, 2004 Colin C. Haley	Cisco to Open Japanese R&D Center The networking giant will invest $12 million to aid its routing and software efforts.
Science News December 11, 2004 Janet Raloff	Shark Finning Faces Broader Sanctions The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT)--an intergovernmental fishery organization that concerns itself with large fish in the open seas--unanimously agreed to ban shark finning in the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.
BusinessWeek December 20, 2004 Dexter Roberts	China Goes Shopping Billions of dollars, euros, and yen have been invested to build up companies on the China mainland in the last decade. Now Chinese companies, flush with cash and in command of the world's lowest-cost manufacturing plants, are doing some foreign investing of their own.
BusinessWeek December 20, 2004 Stanley Reed	The Raja Of Steel Lakshmi Mittal, the Indian-born steel baron, is building the biggest steel company on earth, with a collection of plants that spans four continents. But what will he do when the glut comes?
BusinessWeek December 20, 2004 Paul Magnusson	Who'll Survive the Textile Trade Shakeout? With the new year, three decades of quotas on U.S. and European textile and apparel imports will become history -- meaning companies will be free to source from the cheapest suppliers. Some 30 million jobs worldwide could be affected, including an estimated 650,000 in the U.S.
BusinessWeek December 20, 2004	China's Big Deals: Should We Worry? There's talk in Wall Street mergers-and-acquisitions circles of U.S. corporations shedding major brands. What's going on? Is this a sign of America's economic decline? Should we be worried? Not at all.
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