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...help fuel a modest turnaround. Sales in the U.S. are up 11.8% through September of this year, thanks to all-new versions of the Jetta, Passat and Golf (now going by its old name, Rabbit), and Eos has sold out since debuting last month. But analysts estimate VW will lose an additional $800 million in the region in 2006, and they aren't sanguine about 2007. Until VW can address some production and quality issues, it can forget about profitable growth. "North America is one of VW's intractable problems," says Stephen Cheetham, an analyst with Bernstein Research in London...
...Marxist bone left in his body, it is still enough to terrify the United States,” said Birns. However, the U.S. will likely have little power over the upcoming elections. “The U.S. has limited influence,” said Stephen Johnson, a senior policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation. “Anything the U.S. ambassador says in Nicaragua always gets big play, but again it is going to come down to whether Eduardo has a vision that speaks to the current needs of the Nicaraguan people.” Current Nicaraguan law states that...
...Deutsche Bank gaming analyst Bill Lerner says Wynn's loss isn't surprising for a company still very much in development. According to Lerner, the competitors' two Vegas hotels earn just about the same operating profit, though since Wynn's property is smaller, it does average more per room and gaming table. However, Lerner says the best way to compare the two properties is to look at return on net investment. By this measure, the Venetian wins out, 30% vs. 12% to 14% for Wynn, but since Wynn's hotel is so much newer, he could catch up. Amazingly, Lerner...
...site's ability to attract small advertisers is beginning to get the big guys' attention. Neighborhood info has become a major battleground for Google and Yahoo!, which draw like numbers of local searches every month. To capitalize on the primacy of that battle, Jordan Rohan, an Internet analyst with RBC Capital Markets, suggests Yelp sell itself...
...themselves as the NFL team to beat. Through the first five weeks, they were not only undefeated but had outscored opponents 156-36, including a 37-6 whipping of the Seattle Seahawks, last year's NFC champs. "I just don't see any flaws on this team," says ESPN analyst Ron Jaworski...