Another big challenge for Western multinationals is that their Chinese rivals are catching up fast.
Faster-growing economies in developing nations have been a highlight of this quarter's earnings from multinationals.
Multinationals could bring profits back to the U.S. at a 5.25 percent tax rate.
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At issue are foreign subsidiaries that U.S. multinationals use to manage their overseas operations.
The share of non-Americans on the boards of American multinationals is less than 5%.
But wage increases for managers at multinationals, private and state-owned companies have slowed or stalled.
Hence the quandary for multinationals: importing will remain hard, but so will local production.
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The region's debt-ridden banks and companies face takeover by cash-rich North American and European multinationals.
Some believe that the real issue is the hostile attitude of multinationals towards labor unions.
Will Chinese companies ever be able to foster domestic innovation without technology transfer from western multinationals?
Most of them worked in the surrounding office buildings that housed multinationals like Microsoft and Softbank.
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The new multinationals have some distinct advantages in their sprint to the fore of global business.
Many multinationals have set up Latin American headquarters in the county--Cisco, IBM and Oracle among them.
The number of research workers for U.S.-based multinationals working overseas has more than doubled.
Highlights: U.S. multinationals, like General Electric, Caterpillar, Microsoft and Wal-Mart, employ one-fifth of all American workers.
Over the past three years he has hired managers with decades of experience working at multinationals.
And the phenomenon of emerging multinationals is not as new as you might think.
Like parvenus everywhere, these emerging multinationals often buy their way into the top ranks.
Multinationals are watching for other changes that lawmakers might make to international tax rules.
Yet relatively few of them were sold by the big multinationals like Komatsu or Caterpillar.
The primary aim of the tax provisions is to prevent multinationals from abusing foreign tax credits.
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The mighty dollar still trims at least 3% off the multinationals' revenues and earnings.
Investors looking for equities trading at a discount are more interested in US multinationals these days.
But also, it is not likely simply to enrich multinationals and destroy the planet.
Transfer pricing used by multinationals to shift profits around the globe may distort trade figures.
Yet what is good for Indian multinationals may not generate jobs or foreign exchange for India.
Just three Brazilian enterprises have enough foreign assets to rank among the top 100 emerging-market multinationals.
Many of today's multinationals are huge, not only in absolute terms but relative to recent history.
More often, India seems to regard FDI as the gift of Western multinationals alone.
And, right on cue, two foreign-owned, high-tech multinationals have just announced plans for the region.
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