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Belle fits private-equity playbook perfectly

  Private-equity investors aren’t like you or me. Should there be any doubt, take a look at footwear retailer Belle International Holdings Ltd., which despite a 21 percent share price gain this year has the dubious distinction of being the worst-performing stock on the Hang Seng Index since it joined the benchmark in 2010. Bad Footing Since it joined Hong ...

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Amazon should offer free phone or internet in Europe

  Amazon.com Inc. doesn’t need any help, but here is some unsolicited advice anyway. The company needs and wants to expand its Prime membership outside the US, and the craftiest tactic to build its shopping club is to throw in free home internet or mobile phone service in Europe. Sound wacky? Stick with us. Prime is essential to Jeff Bezos’s ...

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Starting local airline in India a ‘misadventure’: Lufthansa

  Bloomberg Deutsche Lufthansa AG said starting a domestic airline in India, the world’s fastest growing aviation market, will be a “misadventure” because of high jet fuel taxes and the cost of operations. Lufthansa’s comments come weeks after Qatar Airways Ltd said it plans to start an airline in India with as many as 100 planes, as the Gulf carrier ...

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