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...Given that contrasting picture and yoyo-ing it produced this week, it might be wise to prepare for markets altering their view of the economic glass as half full or empty almost daily. When investors eventually return to reasoned trading, some observers think, the wider picture won't be as dark as many people expect. Touati notes, for example, the rescue plans, rate cuts, drop in oil prices, and fall of the euro are all positive developments for businesses. The downward pressure on stock prices across the board, meanwhile, suggests speculative markets are already factoring in anticipated declines in company...
...Whatever the rights and wrongs of the current economic meltdown, I want to praise your coverage of it. You have brilliantly analyzed it from a global point of view rather than a U.S-centric one and, in so doing, shown that we are all in this mess together. This calamity could actually benefit humankind if it bring us all closer to a global perspective that erases barriers of race, religion and nationalism. John Orton, Sydney...
Still, a lot of people are going to have to rebalance their portfolios to remain properly diversified and in line with their goals. "You can have an extremely negative view of the economy and use that to say, 'I am not going to go anywhere close to consumer discretionary stocks,'" says McManus. He'd opt for consumer staples instead, as well as health care, utilities and perhaps some beaten-down market sectors such as energy...
...meet this challenge, the U.S., or any other country that wants to remain in the game, can't afford to repeat past mistakes. And the worst mistake of all is complacency--to dismiss the challengers as a nuisance, as the U.S. did Japan in the 1960s, rather than view them as serious competition. You can see the results of complacency when you look at the Big Three U.S. automakers...
...Sofia Montenegro, a central target in the government's crackdown, predicts Ortega's "psychologically vulgar and manipulative campaign" will eventually boomerang on him. Montenegro says the personal nature of the attacks against her have been so crass that even the machista element of Nicaraguan society is rejecting what many view as a cowardly persecution of women. "Men think: that could be my sister, or my wife," she said...