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...pose a huge problem. The combined company would be three times the size of its nearest competitors, with a 10% share of the world steel market, but Mittal and Arcelor don't have many territorial or product overlaps that could cause problems with regulators. Hermann Reith, analyst with BHF-Bank in Frankfurt, says he reckons the chances of the deal going through are now more than 50%. "We will look at this issue, as always, very carefully on competition grounds only. The regulation gives us no power to question mergers for other reasons," said Neelie Kroes, the E.U.'s Antitrust...
...white politicians who voted against the "hate bills" of segregationists in the 1960s, and he opened up city government and public facilities to blacks while mayor from 1970 to 1978. (He was also behind the push to build the Superdome.) Elliott Stonecipher, a political analyst and demographer in Shreveport, notes that one possible factor in Landrieu's decision to seek the mayor's office may be to save the city for the Democratic Party and his own family's future political fortunes. Under Moon Landrieu, the city's white flight began in earnest, but now the city has the opposite...
...release two movies a year; Pixar has done one every 18 months. A steering committee is supposed to protect Pixar's culture, and Cook says Jobs agreed to sell only after getting a guarantee that Pixar wouldn't be Disneyfied. But the price is steep. SG Cowen analyst Lowell Singer estimates that if Pixar doesn't produce four films every three years, Disney's profits will take a hit. Says Singer: "Disney is paying a price for Pixar that requires flawless execution...
...have bottle-fed the fractionals concept for more than a decade. The motivation? Financing expensive hotel projects is easier and far more lucrative this way. "The time-share business has been a very good business for these companies because it tends to have high margins," says Bill Crow, an analyst with Raymond James & Associates in St. Petersburg, Fla. "Three to five to six years after you've opened, you've made your money back--compared to the 10 years or more it usually takes [with a hotel-only project...
...commission--something like 5% of the money you invest. Over 10 years, that $3,000-a-year investment thus becomes $42,133--or $2,218 less. If the advice you get is worth that price, great. If not, consider a plan sold directly to investors. Kerry O'Boyle, an analyst at investment tracker Morningstar Inc., recommends Alaska's T. Rowe Price College Savings Plan and the College Savings Plan of Nebraska. (Just be aware that if you buy an out-of-state plan, you may be giving up state tax breaks and other perks for residents.) Beware exorbitant expenses...