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...biggest p.r. challenges may be behind it. "People are smart; they will Google anything and make up their own mind," says Borda of Macro Meats. "It just needs to do its time." Australus may not be the new beef yet, but Borda and others in the business hope demand will keep growing by leaps and bounds...
...It’s interesting because, at least in the gay community, we always talk about the potential for closeted athletes...so it seems like there would be some good demand for an event like this,” Collins, the event’s sponsor, said...
...turnaround. China sits in the middle of an increasingly important trading system within Asia. Countries like Japan, South Korea and Indonesia export capital goods, components and raw materials to China, where they are used to manufacture final products for shipment to the West. This network broke down as demand in the U.S. and Europe shriveled, but economists say China's stimulus program might be filling in some of the lost sales. Programs to spur domestic consumer spending in China have boosted purchases of items like appliances and automobiles. The success of the stimulus program, economists say, may be rejuvenating intra...
...There is still a limit to how far Asia can rebound on its own. Demand in the U.S. is simply too important to Asia's export machine for the region to experience a full recovery without an increase in American consumer spending. There are recent signs, however, that U.S. demand might also be poised for a rebound. The Conference Board's consumer confidence index rose in April by the most since 2005, signaling that American shoppers might be ready to start buying again. The U.S. government also revealed in late April that inventories in the U.S. fell by a record...
...sold a year earlier. Société Générale's Maguire says that he is encouraged by the recent figures, but not enough to drastically alter his outlook on Asia's overall growth. "We've definitely seen the low, the worst of the collapse of demand," says Maguire, "but we shouldn't be looking at a V-shaped recovery." In a time of gloom and doom, Asia will take any good news...