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...from regulatory reform abroad as from limited growth opportunity at home. Indeed, after MGM Mirage announced plans last month to build a casino in Macau, Merrill Lynch predicted that the development would will add five times more value to the company than its proposed mega-merger with the Strip-centric Mandalay...
...rollers. Elements is releasing a new signature skateboard deck with Vanessa Torres, who was crowned Female Skateboarder of the Year at the 2004 Transworld Skateboarding Awards. Core brands DVS, Sole Technology and Vans are ramping up their collections of women's skate shoes and clothes, joining the already girl-centric Curly Grrlz and Rookie...
...from regulatory reform abroad as from limited growth opportunity in the States. Indeed, after MGM Mirage announced plans last month to build a casino in Macau, Merrill Lynch predicted that the development would add five times more value to the company than its proposed mega-merger with the Strip-centric Mandalay Bay. So far, Vegas casino operators are placing their biggest bets on China, where an age-old penchant for gambling is dovetailing with the world's fastest-growing economy. Millionaires are being minted every day in China, and the World Trade Organization predicts the country's booming middle class...
...asia's 1997 economic crisis painfully demonstrated, the region's export-centric growth model is not without pitfalls. While critical lessons have been learned from that wrenching period, Asia has lingering vulnerabilities. Two soft spots are likely to prove especially vexing: the region's dependence upon mainland China and the policies of the U.S. Federal Reserve. A looming slowdown in China's economy will undermine Asia's newest source of external demand, whereas the pending normalization of U.S. interest rates could convince American consumers, the region's oldest and most reliable source of external demand, to cut back on spending...
...retain control of the company that they launched when they were getting their PhDs at Stanford, in 1997. They will still own about a third of the corporation and there will be two tiers of stock so that not all votes are created equal. That said, their engineer-centric company will be under extraordinary pressure to grow at a pace that can warrant its sky-high valuation, and any missteps, such as its recent release of G-mail, which rankled privacy zealots, will probably not be greeted joyfully on Wall Street...