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...title game's outcome typically forecasts stock-market performance for the rest of the year...
...more than expected, while imports surged by 27%, reflecting healthy domestic demand and higher oil prices. Overall, the Japanese economy grew by an estimated 2.6% in 2005, and despite a huge budget deficit and heavy debt most forecasters expect it to grow by at least 2.2% this year. Despite stock-market jitters caused by a scandal this month at Internet company Livedoor, Goldman Sachs even estimates Japan's economy could grow slightly more strongly than last year. And in Germany, business confidence is at its highest point since May 2000, according to a survey released last week, auguring well...
...here's the best news: now that the stock market has slid, it reflects more realistic expectations. There may be more disappointment when energy companies begin reporting this week, because with oil so high almost everyone is counting on windfall gains. But a lot of basic industrial firms and utilities are doing well, and as their numbers come in over the next couple of weeks investors may come to see that business isn't so horrible. It's not even just okay. It's awfully good-even though, to some on Wall Street, that's just not good enough...
...some extent, this public hostility is well deserved. The bankruptcies of Enron in the U.S. and Parmalat in Italy?and last week, the gyrations of Japan's stock market following news of alleged financial wrongdoing by Internet company Livedoor?have focused attention on corporate misdeeds on three continents. Revelations about how the Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff allegedly bought influence in the U.S. Congress have made a mockery of claims for clean government. The U.N. is struggling to recover from its own high-level corruption scandal relating to the oil-for-food program in prewar Iraq. And, at a time when...
...panel, entitled “Finding Balance in the Global Economy,” was chaired by Financial Times commentator Martin Wolf. Other participants included Palaniappan Chidambaram, the Indian finance minister; John A. Thain, chief executive of the New York Stock Exchange; and Jean-Claude Trichet, president of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt...