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...from tanking commodity values. "Analysts feel that earnings weakness is spreading beyond the financials and consumer discretionary sectors, which includes industries like retailing and travel, into other sectors like energy and industrials," says John Butters, director of U.S. earnings research for Thomson Reuters. Among the few companies that may buck the negative trend in analyst expectations are airlines, which may benefit from falling fuel costs...
...True, the suburb was on the outskirts of Tokyo, where zoning laws are less restrictive than in the Bay Area, where I live. And, yes, karaoke is somewhat more popular over there. But I am an American. Where others see the impossible, we see a way to make a buck...
...hope is that further rate cuts will stabilize volatile financial markets and accelerate the slowing economy. But as the rate heads toward zero, the Fed is rapidly running out of room for reductions. Not only that, economists and analysts are questioning whether rate cuts produce any bang for the buck under the current extraordinary circumstances...
...That could also just be happy talk meant to buck up the weary and the dispirited who dedicated much of the past 24 months of their lives to this effort. McCain's strategy in these final eight days of the campaign hinges on winning a slew of red states in which Obama currently holds leads of varying sizes in the polls - Florida, North Carolina, Ohio, Missouri, Virginia, Colorado, Nevada - and then somehow producing an upset in Pennsylvania, a Blue state that went for Gore in 2000 and Kerry in 2004 and where Obama currently boasts a lead...
...introduction of three popular new platforms. The $50 billion industry hasn't been around long enough for other recessions to provide a guide as to how it will fare. (People got through the Great Depression just fine without Grand Theft Auto). But, as a bang-for-your-buck form of entertainment, gaming seems likely to maintain its upward trend. "It's cavalier for me to say games won't be impacted at all, but games won't be impacted at all," says Pachter. "Maybe it will dent growth a little...