http://www.ft.com/comment/columnists/worldviewhttp://www.ft.com/rss/comment/columnists/worldviewFT.com - World Viewen© Copyright The Financial Times Ltd 2008. "FT" and "Financial Times" are trademarks of the Financial Times. See http://www.ft.com/servicestools/help/terms#legal1 for the terms and conditions of reuse.support@ft.comTue, 8 Jul 2008 18:28 BSTWed, 09 Jul 2008 15:59:40 BSTNewspapers15http://news.ft.com/cms/d1f3ce1a-6bbe-11da-bb53-0000779e2340.gifhttp://www.ft.com/comment/columnists/worldview(PICS-1.1 "http://www.classify.org/safesurf/" L gen true for "http://www.ft.com/" r (SS~~000 1))http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a2197384-4d11-11dd-b527-000077b07658.htmlhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a2197384-4d11-11dd-b527-000077b07658.htmlCarlos Ghosn has always enjoyed driving himself hard. When the celebrity car company manager took over at Renault, he set himself the challenge of reviving the French car manufacturer within three years with a rash of new models and more efficient working practicesTue, 8 Jul 2008 18:28 BSThttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/53501324-4c4a-11dd-96bb-000077b07658.htmlhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/53501324-4c4a-11dd-96bb-000077b07658.htmlThere are likely to be rich pickings for better-funded developers and investors ready to pounce on whatever becomes available in the months aheadMon, 7 Jul 2008 18:43 BSThttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3084bd7c-4920-11dd-9a5f-000077b07658.htmlhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3084bd7c-4920-11dd-9a5f-000077b07658.htmlThere is material aplenty for an enterprising author to pen a blockbuster on the interminable tale of how Carlyle Group, a titan of US capitalism, tried to invest in a Chinese maker of construction machinery. Wannabe scribblers, however, need to wait for the story to endThu, 3 Jul 2008 18:12 BSThttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/60b20c44-4857-11dd-a851-000077b07658.htmlhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/60b20c44-4857-11dd-a851-000077b07658.htmlThrough the debris of the subprime crisis it is easy to forget those trivial scandals that went before, such as Europe's largest ever corporate fraud, at ParmalatWed, 2 Jul 2008 18:17 BSThttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/5fe5a816-478f-11dd-93ca-000077b07658.htmlhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/5fe5a816-478f-11dd-93ca-000077b07658.htmlUni-President's planned joint venture with private equity funds to invest in Chinese food and beverages companies highlights a bigger problem facing Taiwanese companies, namely how to get round Taiwanese regulations that prohibit investment in ChinaTue, 1 Jul 2008 18:06 BSThttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/617e0804-46c6-11dd-876a-0000779fd2ac.htmlhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/617e0804-46c6-11dd-876a-0000779fd2ac.htmlBy scaling back a sale of Krajatau Steel to an IPO, Indonesia has again failed to lure a leading foreign investor to polish a tarnishing jewelMon, 30 Jun 2008 18:36 BSThttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/1cfb7802-43a5-11dd-842e-0000779fd2ac.htmlhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/1cfb7802-43a5-11dd-842e-0000779fd2ac.htmlThe London Stock Exchange's long silence about whether it would plunge into the competition between dark pools of liquidity was evidence of profound thought about the wisdom of such a moveThu, 26 Jun 2008 18:37 BSThttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b94edbbc-42d4-11dd-81d0-0000779fd2ac.htmlhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b94edbbc-42d4-11dd-81d0-0000779fd2ac.htmlBollywood's first family, the Bachchans, are joining forces with Anil Ambani's Reliance Big EntertainmentWed, 25 Jun 2008 18:14 BSThttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/af4bc20e-4213-11dd-a5e8-0000779fd2ac.htmlhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/af4bc20e-4213-11dd-a5e8-0000779fd2ac.htmlNYSE Euronext's acquisition of a quarter of the Doha Securities Market has sent a chill round Paternoster Square, where the London Stock Exchange has its headquarters. The LSE might plausibly have thought of itself as the natural commercial partner for Qatar's principal stock marketTue, 24 Jun 2008 19:05 BSThttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ca5e92dc-4142-11dd-9661-0000779fd2ac.htmlhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ca5e92dc-4142-11dd-9661-0000779fd2ac.htmlImagine that Nasdaq had bought the LSE in 2006. Now imagine that US senators start to fret about "speculators" using the LSE to manipulate share prices to the detriment of American interests. They apply pressure both to Nasdaq's bosses and to the US regulator that oversees them. What happens next? Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:44 BSThttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a30a14bc-3e1e-11dd-b16d-0000779fd2ac.htmlhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a30a14bc-3e1e-11dd-b16d-0000779fd2ac.html The FDA may have given Sanofi the advantage over UK rival GlaxoSmithKline as the pair compete for use of their respective cervical cancer vaccines Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:54 BSThttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8d1b9742-3d5c-11dd-bbb5-0000779fd2ac.htmlhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8d1b9742-3d5c-11dd-bbb5-0000779fd2ac.htmlBeijing's political circles are abuzz with talk that the detention of CDB's vice-president is the start of a purge of a lender that has apparently fallen out of favourWed, 18 Jun 2008 22:04 BSThttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/1e3ae3c8-3c94-11dd-b958-0000779fd2ac.htmlhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/1e3ae3c8-3c94-11dd-b958-0000779fd2ac.htmlHmph. We never liked hybrid cars anyway. That, in essence, is the attitude being projected by global carmakers who missed out on the boom in petrol-electric vehicles fathered by Toyota and its pioneering PriusTue, 17 Jun 2008 23:57 BSThttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d168f52a-3bc7-11dd-9cb2-0000779fd2ac.htmlhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d168f52a-3bc7-11dd-9cb2-0000779fd2ac.htmlFrance has learnt to its cost that when it allows foreigners to move into its heavy industrial sectors, the results are often dire. The Pechiney affair has left a bitter taste in a country traditionally proud of its industrial heritageMon, 16 Jun 2008 18:33 BSThttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/712f8440-38ab-11dd-8aed-0000779fd2ac.htmlhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/712f8440-38ab-11dd-8aed-0000779fd2ac.htmlJunior mining companies are lining up to join the Hong Kong stock exchange, but whether the bourse is ready for them is another issueThu, 12 Jun 2008 22:48 BST