Several companies are seen, to a certain extent, as proxies for growth in China and across the world.
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The dean of global investing, Sir John Templeton, used investments in banks as proxies for gaining exposure to undervalued stock markets around the world.
As proxies for this historical change consider two examples: the growth of presidential press and PR, and the use of executive orders.
As proxies for the market, Tillman advises using exchange-traded funds such as Diamonds (amex: DIA), Spiders (amex: SPY) or the Nasdaq 100 Trust (amex: QQQ).
Stocks that are seen as proxies for the global economy have fared worse: Caterpillar, FedEx, and Alcoa (which posts earnings on Tuesday) have all delivered marginal, or even negative, returns.
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Alwaleed figured it was too big to fail and that Citi's brand name and worldwide presence made it a great way to play global growth -- much as Warren Buffett uses Coca-Cola, Gillette and Disney as proxies for international investing.
And so the authors of this paper suggest that men with stay-at-home wives are enforcing in the workplace an order that they know benefits them personally, seeing the women who work for them as proxies for what their wives could become.
"National governments that stand in the way of reform, like Spain and France, will find it increasingly hard to act as proxies for a handful of powerful companies, with no concern for the long-term wellbeing of the oceans or the majority of fishermen, " she said.
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Characteristics such as race, ethnicity and sex should not be used as crude proxies for how people think or what their background and experiences are.
Moreover, key proxies for global growth such as the price of copper and oil have established firm price support and have not yet broken through them.
And if, as might well happen, Mr Abhisit's government lost an election to proxies for Mr Thaksin, the same alliance of military and civilian elites that toppled him in 2006 and his allies in 2008 might again reject the popular verdict.
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