Back to Karkand is a massive, themed expansion pack available for a period of time after the base game, developed by a separate team at DICE who last created Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Vietnam.
According to Merrill's annual holiday forecast, low-end dollar stores (up 8%) and high-end luxury merchants (up 7.2%) are predicted to lead the pack in the November-December 2006 period.
Time and again studies have shown how, across asset classes, the top-performing fund over one time period often ends up being at the bottom of the pack in subsequent years.
And the hosts' pack also matched Richard Cockerill's men for muscle around the field in the opening period, although the visitors' knack of stealing line-outs put the hosts under pressure at times.