The investing class has instead pulled its collective head back into its weathered shell and mentally retreated back to the (relative) safety of looking at their own homes as a preferred investment class.
Here are three places, however, where Samsung has changed the game and will tempt Apple to shrink back into it shell.
FORBES: These Three Game Changers Define the Apple vs Samsung Battle
I'm like a little hermit crab who retreats back into his shell.
WSJ: Lingering Insecurities | John Grant | Pale Green Ghosts | By Jim Fusilli
The back is a glossy white shell, similar to the classic iPods, with a nice big Apple logo in the middle.
Getting Mars back online early was a triumph for Shell--and a rare piece of good news for the world's third-largest oil and gas company.
He returned back to Earth sometime later, looking shell-shocked but alive as a crowd of men along the desert ground rejoiced, video from state-run Press TV showed.
He often has the Giants' defensive back play a "cover-2 shell, " a soft zone coverage that takes away deep routes and gives New York's defensive line time to harass an opposing quarterback.
In fact, to maximize its tax savings, Google shuffled its income to Ireland, then to shell companies in Bermuda and then to another shell in the Netherlands and finally back to Bermuda.
Something held me back: Bubblegum, my first pet and a shell-carrying member of the Helicidae family.
The phone is also very individualistic: my test unit only had the sober black shell, but Telus supplies a white back in the retail box, and the more exotic colors (neon green, anyone?) really add character.
ENGADGET: IRL: Moshi's Digits gloves and the Nokia Lumia 620 on Telus
It made a billion debt bet to acquire gasoline distributor Esso from Exxon Mobil a few years back and last year signed a joint venture with Shell to produce and distribute both ethanol and gasoline in Brazil and, indeed, around the world.
FORBES: US Brazil Biofuels Talk Helps Cosan, But India Could Change That
Trincher and Nahmad of laundering money through bank accounts and shell companies in Cyprus, routing funds back and forth through Russia and into the U.S. The unnamed celebrities, athletes and financiers who patronized the alleged underground poker games run by the ring aren't accused of participating in the broader criminal enterprise.
Shell-shocked, Portsmouth fought to get back into the game and Baros should have collected Lassana Diarra's clever through-ball after slipping through United's defence unnoticed.
Shell is even now starting a restructuring drive that may clamp back on investment.
France's energy giant Total has stopped buying Iranian crude and Royal Dutch Shell, one of the biggest purchasers of Iranian oil, has cut back sharply, market sources told Reuters.
Accies looked shell-shocked but were presented with a chance to pull a goal back just before half-time when a cross into the box fell to Marco Paixao only for the Portuguese forward to fire wildly over.
Then he took over Powerball International, a dormant shell once in the hydrogen business, renamed it Apollo Resources and wound up back in court.
Many pay back a good measure of their income to Herbalife, which urges its sales force to shell out for sales kits, marketing supplies and inspirational DVDs.
According to Davis and company folklore, founder Danny Evins (a Shell Oil jobber) was on the highway headed for the zoo in Atlanta back in 1969 when lightning struck.
Wayne Rooney emerged from his first-half shell to bring a first save out of Petr Cech and tested Chelsea's back line with a couple of bursting runs.
Shell says it's too early to tell how long it will take to get Mars back online, but a year is likely.
The shell-shocked Saints pushed for an equaliser but could not find a way through a resolute Rangers back-line.
To penetrate that defensive shell, most teams sacrifice the puck, firing it into the zone in order to win it back amid the thicket of bodies near the net.
应用推荐