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...premium on that. Clearly, for China - whose voracious appetite for metals and minerals drove commodity prices sky high until last year's bust - the timing is now right. "These [Chinese] companies know this slump, while deep, will not last forever," says Xu Minle, a Shanghai-based analyst at logistics company BOC International. "China is now making strategic investments overseas at a comparatively lower cost...
...controversial and risky course. A previous peace deal failed within months - and gave the militants the space to regroup and sweep away earlier military gains. "It is an attempt on the part of the government to win over a section of religious extremists," says Hasan Askari-Rizvi, a military analyst. "The idea is that if they are pulled out of the struggle, they will cooperate with the government and help isolate the militants. It may have been a good idea if the Taliban were on the run, but they're well entrenched...
...Yahoo! (YHOO) and Time Warner were downgraded by a Wall St. analyst yesterday. His reason for cutting Time Warner is that, once its cable systems have been spun-out to shareholders, its crown jewels which include Time Inc, AOL, and networks such as CNN were not worth the multiple at which the company trades. The essence of his argument is that content, even the best content, is losing its value...
...average, $102.50 on Valentine's Day gifts this year, down from $122.98 in 2008. That's a 17% drop. Overall, the study projects that Valentine's Day spending will fall 14%, to $14.7 billion, compared with last year. "People are trading down," says George Van Horn, an industry analyst at IBIS World, a research firm that also is predicting a decline in Valentine's Day spending. "This year consumers are thinking about smaller tokens that are thoughtful and not as elaborate and expensive as in years past." (See pictures of expensive things anyway...
...believe in peace with the Palestinians, and those who think it is impossible to even try, and who advocate living in a constant state of military readiness against the Arab enemy. "Lieberman is a Jewish problem. Not a problem for the Arabs," says Mohammad Darawsha, a researcher and political analyst in Nazareth. Still, a sizable showing at the polls on Tuesday could enable Lieberman to put the brakes on any Arab-Israeli peace process...