John's Twitters for 2009-06-23
- Govts are out of control. Sarkozy Prepares For Borrowing Spree-no austerity measures, just more government debt, promises French president. #
- RT @guseff ?????????????? : Rutledge Capital http://bit.ly/72aDX #
- CBSNYT health care poll-68% said they'd be concerned that a public HC plan would limit access to tests and treatments. #
- CBS/NYT health care poll-57% thought a public plan would either hurt or have no effect on the economy. #
- CBS/NYT health care poll-Asked who they trusted to "make the right decisions" on issue neither Obama nor (39%) Congress (35%) scored high. #
- Butt ugly stock market today. Huge reaction to World Bank lowering its world growth forecast. I think it's unwarranted. #
- Goldman Sachs is on pace to make record bonus payouts after a robust first half, the Guardian reported Sunday. Here comes the pay czar! #
- Wall Street firms Merrill Lynch, UBS and Citigroup are hiking pay for their top investment bankers just to keep them, The FT reported. #
- Bain Capital agreed to invest $432 million to buy minority stake in Gome Electrical Appliances, a large China's retailer. #
- China will drive oil prices. CNOOC, China's offshore oil and gas co. hired Goldman Sachs to bid for a stake in Africa-focused Kosmos Energy. #
- The state of California is facing a "multi-notch" downgrade of its debt if it fails to resolve its enormous budget woes, Moody's said. #
- China's growth strategy driven by IT/telecom. Asia already accounts for 45% of world broadband subs. http://bit.ly/mT4Mn #
- Asia-Pac countries account for 163 million out of 429.2 million global broadband lines as of the end of Q1 2009. http://bit.ly/mT4Mn #
- China is now the world’s biggest broadband market with just over 88 million lines, beating out former leader the US by 4 million lines. #
- Yipes! India broadband registrations grew 68.5% in Q1/2009. #
- Emerging markets like Vietnam, the Philippines and Indonesia dominate broadband growth at 49%, 61% and 142%. http://bit.ly/mT4Mn #
- IPTV-Asia racking up 7 million IPTV subscribers in Q1, second only to Western Europe at 11.3 million. #
- Protectionism. Ways And Means Climate Proposal would require president to impose tariffs on carbon-intensive imports from other countries #
- RT @SBombeck: @johnrutledge How can the admin and congress be getting this all so WRONG? I mean they have smart people there, right? #
- @SBombeck Very good question Scott. I wonder the same thing myself. It may be youth, inexperience and an agenda for aggressive change. in reply to SBombeck #
- @Seanakin but not as smart as they thought they were! in reply to Seanakin #
