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Putting aside its incredible product line and pipeline of more, its still attractive valuation relative to earnings, and its $100 per share of cash that may be used for a dividend soon, Apple's stock has gone parabolic. And, parabolic moves always end one way, back to the place where the parabolic move began. Now, AAPL can of course power higher to who knows where in this move but the largest market cap stock in the world has now entered a tenuous phase, strictly technically speaking. But I digress. German investor confidence, the ZEW, in the next 6 months rose back...
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January 14th, 2010 at 10:48 pm
Wow. I find that shameful that there are some places in the world where poverty rates are actually worse than they were in 1997. Otherwise, in most cases, things have improved
January 15th, 2010 at 2:12 am
I don’t understand the technology bar graphs, something is missing there, like name of regions.
Poverty rates: look at ” west asia ”, from 10% under $1.25 a day in 2007 to 25% in 2008 ! Something very wrong going on there, west asia is probably the middle-east with AfghanHell and some ex-soviet republics.
The most claustrophobic guy on earth has 2 choices: move to Greenland or Pitcairn.
Where’s Canada with the greenhouse gas emissions, exploitation of oil sands and the conservative government attitude completely changed Canada’s reputation.
January 15th, 2010 at 7:43 am
For more details about internet I checked International Telecommunications Union’s site,
the nordic european countries have the strongest % of internet users (#1 Iceland 90.6%)
http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/icteye/Reports.aspx
and also the strongest % of broadband subscribers (#1 Sweden 37.%)
http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/statistics/at_glance/top20_broad_2008.html
Near zero% of internet users are many countries from Africa and a few in Asia like Myanmar, Irak and Afghanistan.
Unbelievable is the total estimate of internet users for the world: 1 587 420 000 !!! 23.4% of the world population, amazing achievement considering internet didn’t exist 20 years ago.