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...banks and government guarantees for their debt - has inspired similar rescue packages across Europe. Still, one model won't fit all. "Some countries consider they don't have an insolvency problem, and are focusing more on providing guarantees to improve liquidity in the markets," says Antonio Ramirez, banking analyst at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods in London. (On Monday, for instance, Spain said it would guarantee new bank debt until the end of 2009.) But "the problems in terms of capital requirements of U.K. banks seem to be much higher than what they eventually could be in other countries," Ramirez says. "They...
Among industry analysts, there is also skepticism whether a merger would even work. "I just don't see the benefit to GM," notes an executive from a key supplier. "I can see the value in terms of reducing overlap and reducing capacity," says Laurie Harbour Felax, an analyst with the Harbour-Felax Group in Clarkston, Mi. "But the cost of doing that are so enormous, you have to wonder if it's really worth it," she says. Chrysler also has relatively few products that are not duplicates of those already sold by GM, she said...
...true reconciliation would have to include these groups, as well as the Taliban leadership, and that is an almost inconceivable task. "The West tends to imagine a rather more coherent organization than the Taliban really is," says Joanna Nathan, Afghanistan analyst for the International Crisis Group. "They imagine there is a single element of control over a wider organization. This view that it is somehow going to be Mullah Omar sitting at one end of the table while President Karzai sits at the other as they sign a power-sharing agreement and we can all go home - that...
...that spells trouble for the likes of BMW, Mercedes Benz, Porsche, Volkswagen, Ford Europe and General Motors' Europe arm, Opel. Ferdinand Dudenhoffer, a respected industry analyst, predicts that the number of new German cars delivered to customers in 2008 will fall by at least 100,000 units to around 3.1 million, and will likely slip below three million next year. As a result, he says, German car companies will have to cut up to 20,000 jobs over the coming year...
...barrel for the first time early this year, Americans (who consume one-quarter of the world's energy) began cutting back. When gas began selling above $4 a gallon, American consumers made "a psychological shift into the sense of crisis and a sense of permanence," says Greg Priddy, oil analyst for the Eurasia Group in Washington. Instead of believing that gas prices would finally fall again, many began changing their daily habits - they started driving the smaller car in a two-car garage or consolidating shopping trips. That has meant a huge slump in Americans' gas use. Even before...