IHT World Business


  • Mar
    17
    By NATASHA SINGER

    The leading drug makers need to move quickly to adapt to a new world order in which some emerging markets are set to overtake some established national markets in pharmaceutical sales, according to a new report

  • By MATTHEW L. WALD

    Generating 20 percent of America’s electricity with wind, as recent studies proposed, would require as much as 22,000 miles of new high-voltage transmission lines. But the huge towers and unsightly tree-cutting that these projects require have provoked intense public opposition

  • By REUTERS

    Chinese companies that sell advertising space on Google’s search pages have demanded clarity from the U.S. Internet company about its plans in China, warning that they would demand compensation if it shut its Chinese portal

  • By HIROKO TABUCHI

    After tersely testifying before the U.S. Congress, tearfully meeting American auto dealers and becoming the subject of a spoof appearance on the David Letterman talk show,Mr. Toyoda posted his first blog entry in two months this week

  • By BETTINA WASSENER AND SEWELL CHAN

    The World Bank urged China on Wednesday to allow its currency to rise, adding another voice to those around the globe calling for it to end its de facto currency peg to the dollar

  • By JACK EWING

    It used to be easy to sum up the way European business executives viewed exchange rates: A strong dollar was good; a strong euro was bad.

  • By REUTERS

    Two land sales in Beijing have shattered price records and both buyers were state-owned companies, which has brought outrage and astonishment at the city’s frothy property market

  • Mar
    16
    By CHARLOTTE COOPER

    Asian shares struggled to keep modest gains Tuesday and the dollar gave ground as investors trimmed bets that the currency would rise before a U.S