Nanotechnology tries to keep growing amid negative economic conditions
by Manuel Baigorri
May 22, 2008
Indian-born Hrushikesh Loshi is a postdoctoral student at Northwestern University researching magnetic nano particles. As he works with an electron microscope on the project, funded by [...]
As inflation motors on, can your portfolio keep pace?
by Patrick Temple-West
May 13, 200
Chicago-area investors are looking to shift their portfolios into higher gear—with greater risk—to keep pace with rising inflation.
The Standard & Poor’s 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average are in the red [...]
Reverse outsourcing: India comes to the Midwest
by Leena Krishnaswamy
May 06, 2008
Outsourcing has a new twist. Rather than U.S. jobs going to India, the latest wave of outsourcing is moving in reverse, with India’s leading information technology service providers opening U.S. offices in Chicago, Detroit and Cincinnati.
Satyam Computer Services Ltd, Tata [...]
Chicagoans hungry for books about food, publishers happy to serve up more
by Molly Seltzer
Apr 28, 2008
Loaves and popovers grow lofty and puffy because yeast feeds on sugar and releases carbon dioxide. These rising breads are causing something else to rise — the popularity of food books.
In the [...]
Credit market turmoil could boost CME’s move into OTC derivatives
by John Detrixhe
Apr 23, 2008
The CME Group Inc.’s latest foray into the $62 trillion off-exchange credit-default swaps market comes just as some critics [...]
Fed tonic may be ‘toxic’ as inflation looms over economy
by Patrick Temple-West
Apr 16, 2008
Retailers weathering economic storm despite stock losses
By [...]
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