Word: bullish
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...Rosneft's oil production and reserves. The company's initial public offering (ipo) prospectus lists more than $47 billion in outstanding legal claims relating to the Yukos affair, and Khodorkovsky's lawyer, Robert Amsterdam, decries Rosneft as "the handmaiden of expropriation." Security Even some investors who are bullish on Russia are concerned. "The Russian legal system is not a credible one, and that has a visible impact on the safety of investments in the country," says Karina Litvack, the head of corporate governance and socially responsible investing at the London investment firm F&C Asset Management, who urges investors...
...move into second position within a decade, according to the World Tourism Association. By 2020, China is forecast to overtake the U.S. as the world's most-visited country, pulling in some 130 million visitors a year. China's burgeoning domestic-tourism market is also critical in the bullish calculations of hotel companies. By 2010, the number of domestic tourists is forecast to soar from 1.2 billion to about 1.8 billion...
...world. I'm going around to all my investors saying, Now is the time," Thorn says. "You need to buy when there are moments of panic." Savvy investors, he says, should stash some of their assets in Indian stocks or funds for the long haul. Faber is even more bullish. "If someone put a gun to my head and said, 'You have to put all your money in India or all of it in the U.S.,'" he says, "I'd choose India...
...news they receive," says creator Jean Agersberg, a Swedish economics student. The 10,000-plus members who have joined since Trendio was launched last month must be thinking harder now; the savviest investors' portfolios are worth about $2.5 million. Looking for a sure thing? Agersberg says he's bullish on words related to war and natural disaster: "You can never go wrong with carnage...
...Still, the bullish investment is offset by common developing-country woes. Infrastructure hasn't kept pace with growth; electricity, telecommunications and port fees are relatively costly. Last summer, a drought in the north reduced hydroelectric generation and the government was forced to implement rolling power outages. Vietnam still hasn't developed support industries to supply parts and services to factories, forcing them to import parts and expertise. Meanwhile, restrictive labor laws make it virtually impossible to fire unproductive workers, and managers in foreign-owned factories complain about pervasive government corruption and interference. In January, Hanoi abruptly decreed that the minimum...