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Telecommunications companies such as Motorola, which is China's largest foreign investor, are wiring the nation--rather, making it wireless. Last July, the number of Chinese mobile subscribers surpassed the U.S.'s lead, and construction continues on state-of-the-art digital wireless networks. According to the WTO terms, foreign companies will be able to control 49% of communications networks within three years in certain regions...
...problem is shaken investor confidence - in companies' revenues and whether they're real or a product of the same kind of financial adventuring that Enron apparently relied on all those years. Investors are taking hard second looks at earnings statements - or at least promising to - and manipulation-prone numbers like EBIDTA are being stacked up against more implacable measures of corporate health like cash flow. The result is harder questions and more skepticism - can, say, Ford and GM really make money selling cars, or are they relying too heavily on their financing operations? - and it's all coming...
...long run, a thorough reckoning is a healthy thing. Investor scrutiny of things once taken for granted - and an increased awareness of risk - is part and parcel of the aftermath of a burst bubble, and the lessons taught by Enron, if they're learned, make for a more rational investing climate and a better-built expansion, when it does come. Likewise, the political scrutiny now being visited upon Enron and Andersen, if it results in any good legislation, can eventually help bring leery small investors back into the equities fold...
...this world, investors know which companies are shooting them straight at earnings time and which ones aren't; which ones have dangerous levels of debt and which ones don't; which ones are making money and which ones aren't. Which is critical. The rise and fall of Enron may have been merely part of "the genius of capitalism," as Paul O'Neill put it, but the genius of investor-based capitalism - that'd be our system - also depends on disclosure, on transparency, on every investor knowing what Ken Lay knew about Enron's financial habits when Ken Lay knew...
...fear that the financial catastrophes of recent years will continue to haunt our financial markets and questions will continue to be raised about our system of investor-based capitalism on which our economy depends," Fisher said. And closing that "disclosure gap" - not preventing the next corporate implosion, but making sure investors get the warning signs as promptly as possible - with accounting- and disclosure-rules reform is now Washington policymakers' most important...