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...strategy. Infineon is determined to maintain a range of products from the highly cyclical drams - a computer chip that acts as a temporary storage depot for data while the computer performs a task - to "logic" chips used in devices such as mobile phones. Meanwhile, Schumacher hopes to offset the downturn in the dram cycle by being strong in logic chips, which are less prone to business swings. Currently, around 39% of Infineon's sales come from drams, 24% from the automotive industry, 34% from products for the communications industry and 3% from other areas. So far, Schumacher's strategy seems...
...automakers are by no means sitting still, as we'll see, but the additional transplant capacity can only make their challenge harder. "The Big Three are less in denial than they used to be, but I can't see anything causing import market-share gains to take a downturn," says Bear Stearns analyst Domenic Martilotti. "A fifty-fifty share split is certainly within reason." Here's what Detroit is up against...
...have taken the measures to ensure we will be ready when the business-jet market picks up." But as Merrill Lynch analyst Ronald Epstein points out, Embraer doesn't depend on business-jet sales, and it has invested heavily in regional-jet R and D during the market downturn. Though Embraer's 2002 revenues of $2.5 billion were less than a third of Bombardier Aerospace's, the smaller firm has captured more than a third of the regional-jet market after entering only seven years ago with its 50-seat ERJ135, and has become the fourth largest aircraftmaker. The rivalry...
...September 2001, just his second month at the IMF, Rogoff generated controversy when he declared that a recession in the United States was a “done deal”—even as other top economists downplayed the downturn, attributing it to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks...
...joint venture to sell on some of their loans to bond investors. Because the government - backed program could help the banks free up sorely needed capital, German politicians hope the plan will spur lending to small - and medium - sized German businesses, which have been hit hard by the recent downturn. THE BOTTOM LINE A difficult quarter, aggravated by late Easter PETER BRABECK, chief executive of Swiss consumer - foods giant Nestlé, blaming a tardy Easter Bunny as one of the reasons for the company's 7.5% fall in first - quarter sales