ABB's now-glaring over-reliance on financial, as opposed to material, activities.

ECONOMIST: ABB in trouble

ABB's short-term debt, in the form of commercial paper.

ECONOMIST: ABB in trouble

One of ABB's specialties is high-voltage direct current links, so-called HVDC.

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Then, last week, after controversy over his ABB pension, he resigned from his post as chairman of Investor, the powerful Swedish Wallenberg-family's industrial holding company which is also a major ABB shareholder.

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