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...Google are 31% and 20%. If Google soon shuts down its Chinese search engine (Google.cn) - as most analysts believe it will - Baidu will grab even more. Dick Wei, senior analyst at JPMorgan Securities in Hong Kong, estimates that if Google loses a quarter of its China traffic, Baidu will reap a 6% gain in revenue; the gain would be 12% if the number of eyeballs logging onto Google shrinks 50%. For the last full year completed, 2008, Baidu generated $468.8 million in revenue and earned $153.6 million. Though they haven't yet reported full-year 2009 results, Baidu's stock...
...ended 2009 with a 74-day supply of the Civic and a 68-day supply of the Accord. And indeed, both models were strong performers in January, in what was otherwise a subpar month. So the automaker not only gets an opportunity to reap a windfall in sales; it also can liquidate excess inventory without adjusting production levels or resorting to incentives. Supplies of its Pilot SUV and Odyssey minivan are about normal, and only its popular CRV crossover is in short supply...
...slight increases in consumer spending," said Rosalind Wells, NRF's chief economist. Although shoppers will continue to be "frugal," - yes, even she expects it - retailers will benefit from leaner, smarter inventories and a year and a half of pent-up consumer demand, Wells says. Retailers should also reap the benefits of low inflation and a slowly improving housing market, she says. (See how Americans are spending...
...possibility that scholarship students will abscond or seek asylum - the program will have to take those risks into account. But every year donors will be able to quantify the money spent on education and, in a generation or less, not only Afghanistan but the U.S. will begin to reap the rewards...
...though it would be unseemly for the writer-director to want still more booty, he may well reap gold, in the form of statuettes for Best Picture and Best Director, on Oscar night. At the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's Golden Globe Awards on Jan. 17, Cameron was a semisurprise winner as Best Director, besting his ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow, who was nominated for The Hurt Locker. That exemplary Iraq war drama, which won most of the critics' awards, earned just $12.7 million in its domestic release and $3.4 million abroad, for a worldwide total of $16.1 million - less than...