Word: asia
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...manufacturing plants. The Smyrna, Tenn., factory where it makes the Altima, Sentra and Frontier models has been ranked North America's most efficient for five years (although slow sales idled the plant every Friday for 16 weeks last year). Nissan also offers a window onto Asia's market, which could be a bonanza when it finally recovers...
...Japanese. Even before CEO Juergen Schrempp inked a deal to acquire Chrysler Corp. for $37 billion last May, his Stuttgart brain trust was urging him to buy a controlling stake in Nissan Diesel. That would give Daimler, the world's largest commercial-truck producer, a solid foothold in Asia...
...less dramatic scenario foresees a slower decline in U.S. markets, as better economic times in Europe and Asia prompt an orderly departure of foreign money for promising opportunities at home. But this would still reverse the wealth effect and stanch U.S. consumption. No board member dissented from the view expressed by Lipp that debt-fueled consumption and big current account deficits were "a sword of Damocles." Though that danger may not be immediate, Hormats noted, it is probably behind efforts by U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and Deputy Secretary Lawrence Summers to push for Europe and Japan to do more...
...Japan's economy lumbers forward, its lending to Asia should help recovery there, as will its imports of Asian goods. The heft of Japan's economy means every small uptick will help the U.S. export more. "The difference in lost output between -3% growth and 2.5% growth in Japan over 24 months is equal to the GDP of China," says Courtis...
China, meanwhile, is on track for 7% to 8% growth, and Asia's battered tigers appear to have bottomed out, according to Courtis. But Russia is far from recovery. And the choice this year in Latin America, says Moises Naim, editor of Foreign Policy magazine, is "between slowdown or meltdown. There's no other option." But the board agreed that this year's performance by the emerging economies will depend less on their own policy choices than on core country growth...