Sentiment has recently improved among analysts covering Nortel Networks. Over 30% now recommend buying the company's shares, compared to 20% three months ago. Also, bond-rating agency DBRS today changed its B (low) rating on Nortel debt from a stable to a positive trend. Nevertheless, the June rally in Nortel shares ...

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The perennially beleaguered Nortel (TSX:NT) held a conference in Toronto today for analysts and major investors (webcast, with presentation slides). It's all spin to some degree, but Nortel executives have earned a reputation for being pretty forthright about its business—partly trying to still make up for previous leadership teams' gross ...

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A colleague sent me a remarkable new white paper developed by a global team of six academics and sponsored by BT and Cisco . The paper is called A New Mindset for Corporate Sustainability - you can download the PDF at BT’s Bigger Thinking site (the web site itself ...

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