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...holiday shopping lists, that left a lot of retailers out in the cold. And even the last-minute push - chain store sales surged 2.9 percent for the week ended Dec. 22, reversing the 0.5 percent decline recorded the previous week, according to the Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi and UBS Warburg's weekly report - wasn't nearly enough to turn retailers' seasonal fortunes around...
...stuff Asia makes for the U.S. is electronics, mainly components like microchips, motherboards and monitors?the parts for the computers that U.S. dotbombs stopped buying after the tech boom went bust. The result is that Asia has been hit with what Arup Raha, chief economist at UBS Warburg in Hong Kong, calls a "double whammy" of depressed U.S. demand for all goods, and a particular slump in electronics, the cornerstone of Asia's new economy. Taiwan's exports plunged nearly 17% in the second quarter. Singapore, South Korea, Thailand and the Philippines are not faring much better...
...Montedison - and started Italian investors buzzing about the future of businesses ranging from Europe's third-largest insurer to Italy's leading newspaper to a top fashion-design house. "After 50 years, the rules of the game are finally changing," says Fabio Gallia, managing director at Ersel-Warburg in Italy. But is it really the game that's changed, or just the lineup of winning players? Imagine drawing a map of who owns whom in Italy. You might start with Company A and find that it is 15% owned by Company B and 10% owned by Company C, both...
...Minis that BMW plans to manufacture each year and sell for roughly $14,000 will ultimately justify the $325 million investment the Bavarian carmaker has sunk into the project. "The big question is: Will they ever turn a reasonable profit?" says Jim Collins, automotive analyst at UBS Warburg...
...Powertrain engine plant at Longbridge. "Those payments are keeping them alive. After next year, they'll be on their own. And it's tough to survive as a mainstream car manufacturer when most of your cars are not new," says Jim Collins, an auto analyst at UBS Warburg, noting that Rover's small and medium lines are coming up to their fifth and seventh year, respectively, with no new models in sight. And Collins says he doesn't see where Rover will get the millions - if not billions - of dollars needed for new-car development. Perhaps that's true...