While independent exchanges are stalling, industry-led trading hubs are gaining in popularity. Here's what we found when we examined E-marketplaces in four industries: metal, chemicals, paper, and energy.
As commodity companies acquire assets, hedging can help take the caveat out of the emptor.
In the wake of Y2K, U.S. companies are outsourcing even more technology tasks overseas.
How drug money is finding its way to the bottom line.
Even as California rushes into the dark, Nstar tries to prove that utility deregulation can work.
E-procurement is hot, but the goods you need most are the hardest to buy online.
For a CFO, assessing the merits of a high-tech takeover may require the brains of Stephen Hawking and the people skills of Dag Hammarskjold, and often takes the CFO into unknown territory.
New Web-based applications bring budgeting and planning closer to reality.
From cranes to copy machines, you can finance almost anything via the Internet, but convenience seems to matter more than cost -- for now.
Faster than the rest.
It hasn't been a good year for energy. And it's going to get worse.
By keeping customers happy, Oracle pleases investors as well.
