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C M Y K Composite ***** MONDAY, MARCH 30, 2015 ~ VOL. CCLXV NO. 73 WSJ.com HHHH $3.00 CONTENTS Abreast of the Market C1 Business News B2-4,8 Global Finance............ C3 Heard on the Street C6 Law Journal................. B7 Markets Dashboard C4 Media............................... B6 Moving the Market C2 Opinion................... A11-13 Sports.............................. B9 U.S. News................. A2-4 Weather Watch........ B8 World News ........... A6-9 s Copyright 2015 Dow Jones & Company. All Rights Reserved > What’s News Rubio is laying plans to an- nounce his candidacy for the GOP presidential nomination in two weeks. Paul is set to enter the race in just over a week. A1 The White House is ramp- ing up a campaign to persuade lawmakers and the public to support a nuclear deal with Iran as a deadline looms. A1 U.S. and European officials are seeking Russian backing to reinstate Iran sanctions quickly if Tehran is caught cheating on a nuclear deal. A6 Saudi warplanes struck rebel-held military bases in Yemen in a U.S.-backed cam- paign that has led to fears of a Mideast proxy war. A6 Iranian-backed Shiite mili- tias remained on the front lines of the battle to retake Tikrit, Iraq, from Islamic State despite U.S. demands they pull out. A6 Nigeria extended its pres- idential election into a sec- ond day amid glitches at polling stations, militant at- tacks and mounting anger. A7 Lufthansa and its insurer will likely face large liability claims in the Germanwings crash despite signs that the co- pilot hid medical problems. A8 Indiana’s governor de- fended a religious-objections law and declined to say if it would allow discrimination against gay people. A3 French President Hollande suffered a setback as a center- right alliance took a sweeping majority in local elections. A8 Singapore bade farewell to founding Prime Minister Lee in a grand funeral marked with unprecedented pageantry. A9 V olvo will spend $500 million to build a new ve- hicle plant in the U.S., stem- ming a tide of auto-industry investment in Mexico. B1 China is suspected in an attack on U.S. coding website GitHub, in a possible attempt by Beijing to shut down anti- censorship tools. B1 A Canadian lawsuit alleges serious governance lapses in- volving the trust through which the Thomson family controls Thomson Reuters. B1 Reynolds and Lorillard are set to meet with the FTC ahead of a final decision on the tobacco firms’ deal. B3 The NFL is joining with two investment firms on a venture to expand the league’s pre- mium hospitality business. B3 IMF data are expected to show central banks piling into the dollar, likely boost- ing the U.S. currency rally. C1 U.S. farmers are planting soybeans instead of corn, shak- ing up futures markets and the agricultural economy. C1 Best Buy is shutting down its Canadian Future Shop chain to focus on the electronic re- tailer’s namesake brand. B3 The Chinese chemical firm behind a $7.7 billion bid for tire maker Pirelli said it won’t rule out an improved offer. B8 Lifestyle Lift filed for Chapter 11, 3½ weeks after the plastic-surgery chain abruptly shut down its business. B8 DreamWorks’ “Home” topped the weekend box of- fice, giving the animation studio a much-needed hit. B6 Business & Finance World-Wide Rubio, Rivals Prepare To Run Paul also set for race as sparring accelerates up flights of stairs, lugging ev- erything from laser printers and kitchen appliances to cans of Coca-Cola for their country’s burgeoning consumer class. “It’s a risky job,” said Mr. Ku- mar, who has to dodge potholes, erratic drivers and the occa- sional cow—all while carrying loads that at times weigh more than he does. “Sometimes peo- ple order dumbbells and then the bag gets really heavy,” he said. Men like Mr. Kumar are the muscle behind the billions of dol- lars global investors are pouring into local online sellers like Flip- Please see PACK page A10 NEW DELHI—One morning, Ashok Kumar hoisted a huge, 110-pound pack jammed with books, cellphones, bluejeans and other items onto his back and cinched the shoulder straps. Then he donned a helmet, climbed onto a motorcycle and, balancing precariously, headed out into the traffic-clogged streets of the Indian capital for his daily rounds. Mr. Kumar and thousands of men like him fan out across the crowded cities of the world’s second-most-populous nation every day—foot soldiers on the BY SEAN MCLAIN For India’s Deliverymen, E-Commerce Can Be a Big Pain i i i Motorcycles trump trucks, but backpacks filled with appliances get heavy front lines of India’s e-commerce revolution. This low-tech army of urban sherpas hauls bags of online pur- chases down narrow alleys and Ashok Kumar Nigerian Elections Marred by Violence, Glitches and Anger TIFE OWOLABI/EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY TEMPERATURES RISING: The government extended the presidential vote into Sunday after polling stations were attacked and others suffered delays. President Goodluck Jonathan is being challenged by Muhammadu Buhari, a former military dictator. Results are expected by Tuesday. A7 Andy Kessler Private Equity’s Glory Days Are Over OPINION | A13 Last week: DJIA 17712.66 g 414.99 2.3% NASDAQ 4891.22 g 2.7% NIKKEI 19285.63 g 1.4% STOXX 600 395.54 g 2.1% 10-YR. TREASURY g 4/32 , yield 1.946% OIL (new)$48.87 À $2.30 EURO $1.0890 YEN 119.14 | Down to Four Jason Gay on college basketball’s dramatic weekend, and whether anyone can beat Kentucky SPORTS | B9 Sen. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) is laying plans to announce his presidential bid in two weeks, a step that, along with other re- cent activity among likely con- tenders, shows the early spar- ring and positioning in the 2016 race for the White House is about to accelerate. Mr. Rubio has made tentative arrangements to announce his White House bid on April 13 at the historic Freedom Tower in Miami, a Rubio adviser said, though aides haven’t yet made final the location and timing. The Freedom Tower is where thousands of Cuban refugees were admitted to the country during the 1960s and 1970s. Mr. Rubio is the son of Cuban immi- grants. With a year and seven months before Election Day, the presi- dential field on both sides is coming into clearer focus. Sen. Rand Paul (R., Ky.) is scheduled to announce his candi- dacy in just over a week at a rally in Louisville, his advisers said, before embarking on a tour of four states holding early pres- idential contests: New Hamp- shire, South Carolina, Iowa and Nevada. Republican Carly Fiorina, a former chief executive of Hewlett-Packard Co., on Sun- day described the chance of her entering the race at better than 90%, with her announcement coming in April or May. Less clear is the timetable for former Republican Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida. His announce- ment could come as late as Please see RUBIO page A4 BY PETER NICHOLAS AND PATRICK OCONNOR ple familiar with the discussions. Meanwhile, the Obama ad- ministration has lined up Repub- licans to try to tamp down a likely political battle over any deal with Iran and scientists to defend an agreement on its tech- nical merits. Perhaps most significant, White House officials have be- gun to express privately a will- ingness to accept legislation that gives Congress some oversight of the nuclear deal if talks in the Swiss city of Lausanne result in agreement on the main outlines of a final nuclear deal before Tuesday night’s deadline. “There’s a recognition that Congress is going to take some sort of vote after negotiations are complete,” said Sen. Chris Murphy (D., Conn.) in an inter- view. The White House’s out- reach is “ratcheting up by the hour.” White House officials still op- pose legislation that would give Congress final approval of a deal with Iran or apply new sanc- tions. And officials don’t want lawmakers to vote on any Iran deal until after the June 30 deadline for a comprehensive agreement. But widespread opposition from lawmakers in both parties has forced the White House to Please see IRAN page A6 As negotiations with Iran on a nuclear deal come down to the wire, the White House is ramp- ing up a yearlong campaign to persuade lawmakers and the public to support an agreement. In recent days, officials have tried to neutralize skeptical Democrats by arguing that op- posing President Barack Obama would empower the new Repub- lican majority, according to peo- BY CAROL E. LEE AND JAY SOLOMON Obama Ramps Up Lobbying On Iran as Deadline Looms decades before Dodd-Frank. Bankers say the drought is a sign of new regulatory require- ments in the wake of the finan- cial crisis, which are boosting expenses and discouraging po- tential startups from even try- ing. Regulators say the profit squeeze from rock-bottom inter- est rates is a bigger problem. “There was, still is, a pent-up demand for a local bank,” Mr. O’Brien says, describing a local man who manufactures mat- tresses for dairy cows. Though the mattresses are common in Please see BANK page A2 BIRD-IN-HAND, Pa.—William O’Brien, chief loan officer at the Bank of Bird-in-Hand, closed so many loans in the bank’s first year of business that locals call him “Gelt Chappie,” or “money man” in Pennsylvania German. Based in a rural village in the heart of Amish country, Bank of Bird-in-Hand is the only new bank to open in the U.S. since 2010, when the Dodd-Frank law was passed and enacted. An av- erage of more than 100 new banks a year opened in the three BY RYAN TRACY A New Bank Sprouts, At Last, in Amish Land DREAMWORKS CHIEF CALLS FOR REWRITE Katzenberg vows to refocus on films after studio’s empire-building period Sanctions debate flares ahead of Iran deadline ............................. A6 sence,” she says. His peripatetic itinerary re- flected a desire to branch into multiple platforms and indus- tries—from television to pub- lishing, theme parks to You- Tube, mall attractions to children’s toys—to reduce DreamWorks’ reliance on the unpredictable returns of two or three films a year. But the company began making cre- ative decisions that left audi- ences wanting and gave new ancillary businesses little good material to work with. In January, after several critical and commercial flops, DreamWorks carried out a re- structuring dramatic even by show-business standards. Mr. Katzenberg’s long string of early suc- Please see DREAM page A10 GLENDALE, Calif.—Jeffrey Katzenberg, chief executive of DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc., until last year sent an oc- casional email to his animation studio’s employees. He would recount daily activities—break- fast with Steven Spielberg, for example—and outline his work expanding beyond the big screen into ventures like tele- vision, consumer products and overseas operations. “I would read his blog and get exhausted,” says a former DreamWorks production coor- dinator who left recently. She noticed a pattern: The busier Mr. Katzenberg was, the more off-track the studio’s film division—famous for hits like “Shrek” and “Kung Fu Panda”—seemed to her and fellow production managers. “The creative confidence wavered because of his ab- BY ERICH SCHWARTZEL Fade to Red DreamWorks Animation's quarterly net income/loss Source: the company Note: Q4 2014 includes costs associated with restructuring. $50 –250 –200 –150 –100 –50 0 million ’13 ’14 2012 Quarters with impairment charges against movies ‘Home’ sweeps away the box office........................... B6 Hurry! It’s almost April 15th. TD Ameritrade, Inc., member FINRA/SIPC. 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Page 1: 2015 03 30 cmyk NA 04 - The Wall Street Journalonline.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/pageone0330.pdf · BIRD-IN-HAND, Pa.—William O’Brien, chief loan officer at the Bank of

CM Y K Composite

* * * * * MONDAY, MARCH 30, 2015 ~ VOL. CCLXV NO. 73 WSJ.com HHHH $3 .00

CONTENTSAbreast of the Market C1Business News B2-4,8Global Finance............ C3Heard on the Street C6Law Journal................. B7Markets Dashboard C4

Media............................... B6Moving the Market C2Opinion................... A11-13Sports.............................. B9U.S. News................. A2-4Weather Watch........ B8World News........... A6-9

s Copyright 2015 Dow Jones & Company.All Rights Reserved

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What’sNews

Rubio is laying plans to an-nounce his candidacy for theGOP presidential nomination intwo weeks. Paul is set to enterthe race in just over a week. A1 TheWhite House is ramp-ing up a campaign to persuadelawmakers and the public tosupport a nuclear deal withIran as a deadline looms. A1U.S. and European officialsare seeking Russian backing toreinstate Iran sanctionsquickly if Tehran is caughtcheating on a nuclear deal. A6 Saudi warplanes struckrebel-held military bases inYemen in a U.S.-backed cam-paign that has led to fears ofa Mideast proxy war. A6 Iranian-backed Shiite mili-tias remained on the front linesof the battle to retake Tikrit,Iraq, from Islamic State despiteU.S. demands they pull out. A6 Nigeria extended its pres-idential election into a sec-ond day amid glitches atpolling stations, militant at-tacks and mounting anger. A7 Lufthansa and its insurerwill likely face large liabilityclaims in the Germanwingscrash despite signs that the co-pilot hid medical problems. A8 Indiana’s governor de-fended a religious-objectionslaw and declined to say if itwould allow discriminationagainst gay people. A3 French President Hollandesuffered a setback as a center-right alliance took a sweepingmajority in local elections. A8 Singapore bade farewell tofounding PrimeMinister Lee ina grand funeral marked withunprecedented pageantry. A9

Volvo will spend $500million to build a new ve-

hicle plant in the U.S., stem-ming a tide of auto-industryinvestment in Mexico. B1 China is suspected in anattack on U.S. coding websiteGitHub, in a possible attemptby Beijing to shut down anti-censorship tools. B1 A Canadian lawsuit allegesserious governance lapses in-volving the trust throughwhich the Thomson familycontrols Thomson Reuters. B1 Reynolds and Lorillardare set to meet with the FTCahead of a final decision onthe tobacco firms’ deal. B3The NFL is joiningwith twoinvestment firms on a ventureto expand the league’s pre-mium hospitality business. B3 IMF data are expected toshow central banks pilinginto the dollar, likely boost-ing the U.S. currency rally. C1U.S. farmers are plantingsoybeans instead of corn, shak-ing up futures markets and theagricultural economy. C1Best Buy is shutting downits Canadian Future Shop chainto focus on the electronic re-tailer’s namesake brand. B3 The Chinese chemical firmbehind a $7.7 billion bid fortire maker Pirelli said it won’trule out an improved offer. B8 Lifestyle Lift filed forChapter 11, 3½weeks after theplastic-surgery chain abruptlyshut down its business. B8 DreamWorks’ “Home”topped the weekend box of-fice, giving the animationstudio a much-needed hit. B6

Business&Finance

World-Wide

Rubio,RivalsPrepareTo RunPaul also set for race assparring accelerates

up flights of stairs, lugging ev-erything from laser printers andkitchen appliances to cans ofCoca-Cola for their country’sburgeoning consumer class.

“It’s a risky job,” said Mr. Ku-mar, who has to dodge potholes,erratic drivers and the occa-sional cow—all while carryingloads that at times weigh morethan he does. “Sometimes peo-ple order dumbbells and thenthe bag gets really heavy,” hesaid.

Men like Mr. Kumar are themuscle behind the billions of dol-lars global investors are pouringinto local online sellers like Flip-

Please see PACK page A10

NEW DELHI—One morning,Ashok Kumar hoisted a huge,110-pound pack jammed withbooks, cellphones, bluejeans andother items onto his back andcinched the shoulder straps.

Then he donned a helmet,climbed onto a motorcycle and,balancing precariously, headedout into the traffic-cloggedstreets of the Indian capital forhis daily rounds.

Mr. Kumar and thousands ofmen like him fan out across thecrowded cities of the world’ssecond-most-populous nationevery day—foot soldiers on the

BY SEAN MCLAIN

For India’s Deliverymen, E-Commerce Can Be a Big Paini i i

Motorcycles trump trucks, but backpacks filled with appliances get heavy

front lines of India’s e-commercerevolution.

This low-tech army of urbansherpas hauls bags of online pur-chases down narrow alleys and

Ashok Kumar

Nigerian Elections Marred by Violence, Glitches and Anger

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TEMPERATURES RISING: The government extended the presidential vote into Sunday after polling stations were attacked and others suffereddelays. President Goodluck Jonathan is being challenged by Muhammadu Buhari, a former military dictator. Results are expected by Tuesday. A7

Andy KesslerPrivate Equity’sGlory Days Are Over

OPINION | A13

Lastweek: DJIA 17712.66 g 414.99 2.3% NASDAQ 4891.22 g 2.7% NIKKEI 19285.63 g 1.4% STOXX600 395.54 g 2.1% 10-YR. TREASURY g 4/32 , yield 1.946% OIL (new)$48.87 À $2.30 EURO $1.0890 YEN 119.14

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Down to FourJason Gay on college basketball’s dramaticweekend, and whether anyone can beat KentuckySPORTS | B9

Sen. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) islaying plans to announce hispresidential bid in two weeks, astep that, along with other re-cent activity among likely con-tenders, shows the early spar-ring and positioning in the 2016race for the White House isabout to accelerate.

Mr. Rubio has made tentativearrangements to announce hisWhite House bid on April 13 atthe historic Freedom Tower inMiami, a Rubio adviser said,though aides haven’t yet madefinal the location and timing.The Freedom Tower is wherethousands of Cuban refugeeswere admitted to the countryduring the 1960s and 1970s. Mr.Rubio is the son of Cuban immi-grants.

With a year and seven monthsbefore Election Day, the presi-dential field on both sides iscoming into clearer focus.

Sen. Rand Paul (R., Ky.) isscheduled to announce his candi-dacy in just over a week at arally in Louisville, his adviserssaid, before embarking on a tourof four states holding early pres-idential contests: New Hamp-shire, South Carolina, Iowa andNevada. Republican CarlyFiorina, a former chief executiveof Hewlett-Packard Co., on Sun-day described the chance of herentering the race at better than90%, with her announcementcoming in April or May.

Less clear is the timetablefor former Republican Gov. JebBush of Florida. His announce-ment could come as late as

Please see RUBIO page A4

BY PETER NICHOLASAND PATRICK O’CONNOR

ple familiar with the discussions.Meanwhile, the Obama ad-

ministration has lined up Repub-licans to try to tamp down alikely political battle over anydeal with Iran and scientists todefend an agreement on its tech-nical merits.

Perhaps most significant,White House officials have be-gun to express privately a will-ingness to accept legislation thatgives Congress some oversightof the nuclear deal if talks in the

Swiss city of Lausanne result inagreement on the main outlinesof a final nuclear deal beforeTuesday night’s deadline.

“There’s a recognition thatCongress is going to take somesort of vote after negotiationsare complete,” said Sen. ChrisMurphy (D., Conn.) in an inter-view. The White House’s out-reach is “ratcheting up by thehour.”

White House officials still op-pose legislation that would give

Congress final approval of a dealwith Iran or apply new sanc-tions. And officials don’t wantlawmakers to vote on any Irandeal until after the June 30deadline for a comprehensiveagreement.

But widespread oppositionfrom lawmakers in both partieshas forced the White House to

Please see IRAN page A6

As negotiations with Iran on anuclear deal come down to thewire, the White House is ramp-ing up a yearlong campaign topersuade lawmakers and thepublic to support an agreement.

In recent days, officials havetried to neutralize skepticalDemocrats by arguing that op-posing President Barack Obamawould empower the new Repub-lican majority, according to peo-

BY CAROL E. LEE AND JAY SOLOMON

Obama Ramps Up LobbyingOn Iran as Deadline Looms

decades before Dodd-Frank.Bankers say the drought is a

sign of new regulatory require-ments in the wake of the finan-cial crisis, which are boostingexpenses and discouraging po-tential startups from even try-ing. Regulators say the profitsqueeze from rock-bottom inter-est rates is a bigger problem.

“There was, still is, a pent-updemand for a local bank,” Mr.O’Brien says, describing a localman who manufactures mat-tresses for dairy cows. Thoughthe mattresses are common in

Please see BANK page A2

BIRD-IN-HAND, Pa.—WilliamO’Brien, chief loan officer at theBank of Bird-in-Hand, closed somany loans in the bank’s firstyear of business that locals callhim “Gelt Chappie,” or “moneyman” in Pennsylvania German.

Based in a rural village in theheart of Amish country, Bank ofBird-in-Hand is the only newbank to open in the U.S. since2010, when the Dodd-Frank lawwas passed and enacted. An av-erage of more than 100 newbanks a year opened in the three

BY RYAN TRACY

A New Bank Sprouts,At Last, in Amish Land

DREAMWORKS CHIEFCALLS FOR REWRITE

Katzenberg vows to refocus on films after studio’s empire-building period

Sanctions debate flares aheadof Iran deadline............................. A6

sence,” she says.His peripatetic itinerary re-

flected a desire to branch intomultiple platforms and indus-tries—from television to pub-lishing, theme parks to You-Tube, mall attractions tochildren’s toys—to reduceDreamWorks’ reliance on theunpredictable returns of twoor three films a year. But thecompany began making cre-ative decisions that left audi-ences wanting and gave newancillary businesses little goodmaterial to work with.

In January, after severalcritical and commercial flops,DreamWorks carried out a re-structuring dramatic even byshow-business standards.

Mr. Katzenberg’s long string of early suc-Please see DREAM page A10

GLENDALE, Calif.—JeffreyKatzenberg, chief executive ofDreamWorks Animation SKGInc., until last year sent an oc-casional email to his animationstudio’s employees. He wouldrecount daily activities—break-fast with Steven Spielberg, forexample—and outline his workexpanding beyond the bigscreen into ventures like tele-vision, consumer products andoverseas operations.

“I would read his blog andget exhausted,” says a formerDreamWorks production coor-dinator who left recently. Shenoticed a pattern: The busierMr. Katzenberg was, the moreoff-track the studio’s film division—famous forhits like “Shrek” and “Kung Fu Panda”—seemedto her and fellow production managers. “Thecreative confidence wavered because of his ab-

BY ERICH SCHWARTZELFade to RedDreamWorks Animation'squarterly net income/loss

Source: the company

Note: Q4 2014 includes costs associated withrestructuring.

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‘Home’ sweeps away the box office........................... B6

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