Word: soccers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...soccer team is going to be a perfect reflection of your politics--and it may even be perverse to think of the game that way. But Barça represents a liberal nationalist spirit that makes for a powerful reprimand to both ethnic chauvinism and facile criticisms of the nation-state. Barça is the ultimate symbol of the Catalan people--one of their most glorious achievements, a monument to their language, history and struggle. But, at the same, it is a bastion of pluralism. Its anthem explicitly welcomes immigrants, and over time it has served as a powerful instrument...
Franklin Foer is editor of the New Republic and author of How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization
...three Zurich-based analysts at UBS Wealth Management Research believe they have hit on a pattern that will help you handily beat the market between now and the title match of the World Cup soccer tournament on July 9. "It began as a fun exercise," says Tim Gorle, who co-wrote a report on the pattern with colleagues Oscar Andreu and Hans Sanders. "But we got some very positive data, or we wouldn't have gone ahead...
...players on this stocker-team juggernaut? Nintendo, whose soccer games sell well as "youngsters get excited" by the Cup; Holcim, a Swiss building-materials company, because the Cup "always involves major infrastructure" additions; Heineken, the Dutch brewer, and Scottish & New Castle, a British pub operator (try to guess why); Canon, the Japanese imaging company, because "worldwide media attention" means fans will want to record the event; Fuji Photo, a Japanese film company (see Canon); Coca-Cola, one of the main sponsors; Tesco, a British takeaway-food retailer; InterContinental Hotels; Puma, the German sports-shoe company, because of "higher-than-average...
Still, there is no denying the results, which were largely untainted by any non-soccer factors. The stocks weren't big gainers before or after. They showed unusual strength only in the three-month periods. The idea, then, was to let the market identify stocks that benefited from Europe's soccer mania--without requiring an abundance of fundamental logic. "We recommend investing in these stocks immediately and closing the investment on the final day of the World Cup," the UBS guys write. And how. Certainly, Coke and Fuji have been dogs for years even if others, like Heineken, have been...