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...central government put on a brave face and hinted that GDP in China's first quarter might be a bottom, but a look at the role that exports played in the number suggests otherwise...
Intel did two things the market dislikes. The first is that it said very little about how the company expected to be doing over the next two or three quarters. The firm would only indicate that revenue for the current quarter would be about flat with the last one. Intel also did not offer any evidence that the PC industry is beginning to do better or if companies were just ordering a few more chips to fill falling inventory. Intel's results are good news for the broader tech sector if PC companies are actually buying more chips because their...
Intel is the first large tech company to report each quarter. If Intel's comments are positioned to support its belief in a recovery, there is a temptation for Wall St. to buy up its shares...
Either way, Lugo's lawyer, Marcos Farina, tells TIME the President has now agreed to take a quarter of the roughly $30,000 government salary he already donates to an indigenous charity and redirect it to child support for Guillermo. (He also consented to the boy using the surname Lugo on his birth certificate.) Carrillo's lawyers have confirmed that she signed off on that arrangement and say they have dropped the suit. They also deny Farina's accusation that they tried to blackmail Lugo for $1 million before filing last week's paternity suit, saying the attorney...
...Obama is wise, he will reflect not on Mexico's challenges, real as they are, but on what extraordinary strides the nation has made in the last quarter of a century. At the time of the Mexico City earthquake in 1985, Mexico's political system had ossified into an elective dictatorship, in which power was held by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) for a staggering half-century. The economy has always had real challenges, like a difficult geography, with lots of desert and few navigable rivers. The long impoverishment of the Indian population blighted the whole nation's economic prospects...