While the tough environment is projected to slow Home Depot's sales growth to 2.8% this year, following a five-year run that saw the company average 11% growth, Trott points to a growing supply business and promising opportunities in China as big reasons for optimism.
Yes they understand China is now a big player, so they direct diplomacy towards China direct investments, and seek Chinese support for the Euro.
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And has so far been, at best, marginal with its big China investment, right?
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One day before China's big moment, the Olympic opening ceremonies, a dull haze hung over Beijing.
Surely, though, China is too big a story for any one person (or, truthfully, any one publication) to cover.
In China and India big steps have been taken to broaden top-rung programs.
At the same time China is making big efforts to step up domestic production of both conventional and unconventional gas.
With the exceptions of Germany and China, every big national beer market is now dominated by at most three domestic brewers.
This is potentially very good news for Japanese stocks, particularly for large exporters and especially for those with big China exposure.
China's big surpluses and America's big deficits depend on the real exchange rate between them and all of their trading partners.
Winning fans in China is a big deal for Porsche, especially now as Europe faces continued economic and political uncertainly.
Bank of China, the first of China's Big Four banks to report half-year profits, also warned that international markets remained "sharply precarious".
Move out of China's big cities or even into the suburbs, however, and shopping habits become more traditional as income levels fall.
Sure, there is plenty of action in India and China, where big boys like Microsoft, Citigroup and Intel have made deep inroads.
Investor see more upside in Europe, China and other big emerging markets.
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But life in China's big cities was already quite unlike that when those films were made, and there has been more change since.
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China makes a big contribution to world growth: it is, after all, 9% of global GDP and it is growing at 10% a year.
How StatCounter handles China makes a big difference in its findings.
While China is a big growth driver for the retail side of the iPhone business, the enterprise is also growing increasingly fond of the iPhone.
China is so big that just the increase in the number of cars sold there last year was roughly the same as the entire Japanese car market.
For now, then, when it comes to some of these big China plays, foreign investors are more flush with cash and enthusiastic than the investors actually in China.
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But so far, China and other big emerging markets like India, Russia and Brazil are waiting for a clearer picture on the fiscal side before throwing money into a burning fire.
The People's Republic of China won a big victory late last month, as the House of Representatives voted to grant it permanent normal trade relations when it enters the World Trade Organization.
With inflation under much better control, floating exchange rates (China is a big exception) and well-stocked foreign-exchange reserves now dominate in the emerging world, providing protection against falling exports and flighty foreign investors.
Europe is still mired in a recession and a debt crisis that tends to flare up every few weeks, while slower growth in countries like China was a big factor in a disappointing third-quarter earnings season.
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China provides a big opportunity for automakers.
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