Word: terme
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...customers for the new age of wireless products and services. The dark horse is Sprint (S) which is in an alliance with Intel (INTC), Clearwire (CLWR) and several other technology companies to build an ultrafast WiMax network. The more successful operations like Verizon are putting their money on Long Term Evolution (LTE) products...
...market bullish? Says Roth: "I'd become more bullish if I saw traders get very bearish and sell out, taking short interest much higher relative to volume." Beyond that sort of investor capitulation he'd also become more bullish, he says, if there were a big drop in long-term interest rates, especially in corporate bonds, which could prompt investors to shift their focus to stocks. At the moment, he says, it's a waiting game...
...house soon, an exasperated Japanese electorate could hand the DPJ enough seats in a general election to take control of the Diet and choose a new Prime Minister. Aso may not survive as the nation's chief long enough to suffer that humiliation, though. "There's no optimistic short-term scenario for Japan," says Gerald Curtis, professor of political science at Columbia University. Aso "is going to have to quit...
...prospects for Asia, and particularly for China, where Shangri-La already has 27 hotels including entries in up-and-coming cities like Wuhan and Dalian, where business has been holding up better than in major metropolitan areas like Beijing and Shanghai. "We do still see medium- to long-term opportunities for growth for all the areas we are getting into," Rao says. "We are in this for the long haul...
...Caracas CHAVEZ WITHOUT LIMITS Venezuelan voters passed a referendum to remove presidential term limits, allowing President Hugo Chávez to seek re-election indefinitely. The constitutional amendment, supported by 54% of voters (including these Chávez supporters, above), comes more than a year after the leftist leader's first attempt was shot down. Chávez says the measure was necessary to continue his socialist reforms; critics say it has brought the country closer to dictatorship...