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...when TV goes fully digital. So, if ever a new telecom player were to carve out a piece of the lucrative nationwide wireless pie, now would be the time. "This is the last auction of any magnitude the FCC will do for the foreseeable future," says Rebecca Arbogast, analyst with financial-services shop Stifel, Nicolaus...
...fourth largest airline by revenue. But by freezing out Singapore Airlines, CAAC officials signaled that they have decided to close ranks around their domestic carriers - potentially shutting off the fast-growing China market to foreign carriers eager to expand their connections to the mainland. Says Richard Pinkham, an analyst at the Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation, a Singapore-based consultancy: "The regulators had clearly decided to go a different direction than the one the [Singapore] deal offered...
...performance of its carriers so they can compete in international markets, nor have plans for industry consolidation been made public. Opinions are divided as to whether shrinking the number of carriers - in effect, creating a more monopolistic market - will relieve the industry's growing pains. Adrian Lowe, airline analyst at stockbroker CLSA in Hong Kong, says consolidation will improve service and allow airlines to be smarter about how they route their flights, leading to fewer delays. "It can only improve things for the customer," he says...
...lawsuits. You could almost hear the sighs of relief coming from Wall Street - not to mention the Treasury Department and Federal Reserve - that someone had swooped in to prevent the collapse of the nation's largest mortgage lender and whatever else it might pull down in its wake. CreditSights analyst David Hendler called the deal a "rescue bid" that would give the markets some much needed stability. The irresistible headline: MAIN STREET SAVES WALL STREET...
...though, 2017 is pretty much the only way. While the Basic Law, Hong Kong's mini-constitution, holds full democracy as its "ultimate aim", the mainland has the last word on its interpretation, leading some observers to see Sunday's march as quixotic at best. Ma Ngok, a political analyst at Chinese University of Hong Kong, says that even if the mainland could be budged by mass popular protests, efforts to get the people out in large enough numbers "won't work because people have been much more pacified in recent years." Some 72% of Hong Kongers find Beijing...