The Makers of Ahava Skin Care have the exclusive right to harvest the mud and sea salts from the Dead Sea. Photographs by Ilan Mizrahi / WPN for TIME
A megacity tries to unravel the world's worst traffic jams. Photographs by Philip Blenkinsop / NOOR for TIME
Media tycoon Jean-Marie Messier talks about dealing with attention in the media, the differences between France and the US and Nicolas Sarkozy
What recession? Why business has never been better for the world's superyacht industry
An English farmer takes a cue from the Americans to give British "crisps" a new identity
New boss BMW restored the luster, while Asia restored the demand for ostentation
Note: From a list of 14 factors, respondents were asked to select the five most problematic factors for doing business in their country/economy and to rank them between 1(most problematic) and 5. The bars in the figure show the responses weighted according to their ranking.
Market and Currency data Copyright © MarketWatch, Inc. 2007. All rights reserved.
Subject to the MarketWatch Terms of Use. MarketWatch, the MarketWatch logo, and
BigCharts are registered trademarks of MarketWatch, Inc. Intraday data delayed
15 minutes for Nasdaq, and 20 minutes for other exchanges. All quotes are in
local exchange time. Intraday data provided by Interactive Data Real Time
Services, and subject to the Terms of Use. Historical and current end-of-day
data provided by Interactive Data Pricing and Reference Data.
FXQuoteTM provided by GTIS, an Interactive Data Company.