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...falls and unemployment continues to worsen. How should investors make sense of the crosscurrents and what should they do with their money? To get a sense of the market's prospects, TIME spoke with Kirk Hartman, chief investment officer at Wells Capital Management, the investment division of Wells Fargo bank, with about $370 billion under management...
...meanwhile, could further add to the cost of boosting Kraft's bid. What's more, "we persist in our belief that neither Nestlé nor Hershey will willingly stand by and be marginalized into distant No. 3 and No. 4 positions in global confectionary," London-based analysts at investment bank Jefferies International wrote in a note to clients on Tuesday. A possible joint Nestlé-Hershey bid to break up Cadbury - with Pennsylvania-based Hershey taking the bulk of its chocolate business and Switzerland's Nestlé swallowing the rest along with Cadbury's gum brands - "would seem to make...
...Netanyahu in the dead of night on Monday, because right now Obama has little to show for his 10-month effort to revive a Middle East peace process. The Israeli leader's refusal to abide by Washington's demand for a complete freeze of settlement construction in the West Bank and East Jerusalem - and the Palestinians' refusal to enter talks without one - has left the Obama Administration's plans in tatters, with Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas threatening to resign and pull the plug on the PA and the peace process of which it forms a part...
...recently in Jerusalem, the idea being to get the two sides talking at a lower level in the hope of generating some momentum. Abrams welcomes that approach, as long as it's tied to expanded efforts to improve Palestinian economic life and freedom of movement on the West Bank, and helping the emergence of the infrastructure of statehood. "I don't think a Palestinian state is going to be created at a conference table; it will be created on the ground in the West Bank, and some day, a peace conference will ratify that which has been built...
...Still, they aren't blind to polls that show that voters see all of Washington's work running together: auto and bank bailouts, massive budgets, record deficits, stimulus, climate change and now a $1.1 trillion health care bill. Worse yet, the odds of a jobless economic recovery are looking increasingly likely. But Dems don't feel they have much of a choice, having concluded that doing something is better than supporting the status quo. "It is the third anniversary of Democrats winning the House and Senate for the American people - Nov. 7, 2006," Pelosi told reporters on Saturday morning...