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Other Asian automakers are likely to gains in specific areas. The popular Mazda 3 should gain some ground in the compact-sedan segment, while the Subaru Legacy could do well in the midsize-sedan category...
...Third Dimension: Critics have shown “Avatar” remarkable lenience because of the perception that it will kickstart the 3-D segment of the film market, which up until now has been remained marginal, despite being populated by lucrative-but-questionable gems such as “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” and “My Bloody Valentine 3-D.” It’s true that Cameron managed to force the design and adoption of certain technologies a few years before they might otherwise have been picked up. However, three-dimensional...
...Connor says. “But until the late ’50s it was known largely as ‘hillbilly music’—in a sense, you can’t get more folky than that. It occupies its own funny segment of the music world...
Industrial properties are just one segment of the commercial market - the others being offices, retail sites, apartment buildings and hotels. But the problems Bonney showed me apply across the board. First, commercial mortgages are about to hit a refinancing wall. Deutsche Bank's Parkus estimates that more than 65% of the loans that have been packaged into commercial mortgage backed securities won't qualify for refinancing when they come due. Second, banks are already facing painful choices about what to do with short-term land and construction loans that will never be paid off in full. Finally, the vulture investors...
...India's appetite for luxury automobiles, making it an important target for foreign automakers looking away from Western markets mired in global recession and whose streets are already bumper to bumper with cars. "India is one of the markets of the future," says Paul Blokland, managing director of Segment Y Automotive Intelligence, an automotive-consulting firm based in Goa, India. "Manufacturers are looking for new growth markets. They're not going to find that in Europe, the U.S. or Japan." (See the 50 worst cars of all time...