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...many Germans, Merkel is right not to put their country's money on the table too soon, as it could lift the pressure for reform in Greece. "That would risk setting a precedent of profligate countries taking advantages of the others," says Silvio Peruzzo, a London-based analyst at the Royal Bank of Scotland. "If you set up a bad incentive, then you undermine the credibility of the euro zone. In that sense, the Germans are much more forward-looking." (See pictures of the dangers of printing money in Germany...
...definitely could be a sign that valuations are at or near record low levels," says Janet Brashear, a senior analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. However, she cautions it will likely be 2011 before the market stabilizes and 2012 before it rebounds...
Also, the average age of Atlantic City's casinos is 26 years, making it difficult for the outdated gambling houses to compete with newly built ones in nearby states, says Chris Snow, a CFA and senior analyst at CreditSights, an independent credit-research firm. (See 10 things to do in Las Vegas...
...aging Soviet fleet of farm equipment, and the government has put a priority on being self-sufficient in food and agriculture. The recession has made financing hard to come by in the region, but "Deere is planting the seeds for when the markets normalize," says Lawrence De Maria, an analyst at the New York brokerage firm Sterne Agee. Still, De Maria adds, "it's sticking with assembly factories for now so that if they had to pick up and leave, it wouldn't kill the shareholders...
...challenges too. Deere has had to pump billions of dollars into engine technology to meet changing U.S. emission standards coming in 2011 and again in 2014 - costs it will pass on to customers through higher prices. "The 2011 product will go up several thousand dollars in price," Longbow Research analyst Eli Lustgarten says. "So when prices go up again just three years later, even the most price-inelastic customers will feel...