Word: hoping
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...next stop 5,000 or 10,000? After Tuesday's 236 point gain, spurred on by Fed Chairman Bernanke's upbeat talk of an economic recovery in 2010, investors saw a glimmer of hope...
...false hope or the beginning of the market's turn? To get answers, TIME's John Curran spoke with Jim Paulsen, chief investment strategist at Well Capital Management...
...development gives some hope to the tens of thousands of Yukos shareholders who saw their investments evaporate after Moscow expropriated and then nationalized the company, effectively handing the government of Vladimir Putin, then President and now Prime Minister, virtual monopolistic control of Russia's vital energy industry. It gives the once politically ambitious Khodorkovsky and his partner Platon Lebedev at least some good news in the face of the Russian government's continuing campaign against them. Later this month, the two men, who are already serving multiyear prison terms, will face fresh charges of embezzlement and grand theft...
...According to Ponomaryov, there are some basic reasons Russians do not like their own courts: "We have this inherited Soviet mentality, where judges can't conceive that in a case where the government is involved, the government could lose." Corruption is another major reason for disillusionment. "Khodorkovsky never had hope, because he was fighting against the government," says Ponomaryov. "We protested, we had meetings, but whatever we did, it didn't matter, because Putin had his own interests...
...happened, it would be more than a loss," says Karina Moskalenko, a human-rights lawyer who has worked with Khodorkovsky. "It would be a disaster for all the individuals who have been cheated by our judicial system. For them the European Court of Human Rights is their last possible hope...