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Chrysler, however, appears to have had insufficient inventory in stock at dealers to take advantage of the surge in new-car shoppers, says Jessica Caldwell, an analyst for Edmunds.com. "Chrysler's lack of small cars also hurt," she adds, nodding to the Clunker-program buyers' strong preference for fuel-efficient vehicles. Even struggling General Motors Corp., which also closed its factories after filing for bankruptcy and saw total sales drop year over year, reported a sales increase of 30% in August, when measured against the previous month. Overall, Chrysler sales were up a meager 5% compared with July and dropped...
...imagination often outstrips the banality of the reality. The capability of dispatching a robot with no harm to U.S. persons isn’t necessarily a condition for joystick diplomacy, but it makes overreacting to threats a very distinct possibility. So it is that even P.W. Singer, a defense analyst at the conservative Brookings Institution, warns the shift to unmanned vehicles could make us “more cavalier” to the use of force...
...Some argue that overtightening is not the fundamental problem, however. Former Morgan Stanley star analyst Andy Xie, now an independent economist, questions the quality of China's recent growth. "The present economic 'recovery' began in February as inventories were restocked and was pushed up by the spillover from the asset-market revival," he contends in a recent opinion piece in Hong Kong's South China Morning Post newspaper. "These two factors cannot be sustained beyond the third quarter...
...population grows wealthier, China should become a more important part of Apple's sales. Once the iPhone is released on the mainland, it could occupy as much as 5% to 6% of Apple's global sales, says Zhang Jun, a Beijing-based analyst with the research firm Wedge MKI. Zhang believes that in the near future, China could make up as much as 10% of the world's iPhone market, which has reached 26 million units in the past two years. "It will add a lot of sales," he says...
...Pineda covers markets, monetary policy and Asia as an analyst for RGE Monitor...