The fact that Tombini has used the word attentive before the April meeting is a strong signal that, contrary to what we believed, the Bank has decided to fast forward its protocol and raise rates now.

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For now, Wall Street believes in Cisco chief John Chambers, the Billy Graham of Internet Protocol, who proselytizes that the entire telecom world will make a fast conversion to IP, abandoning the "circuit switch" networks in which Lucent reigns.

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