As Adam Jonas of Morgan Stanley points out, there is no certainty that American customers will flock to buy rebadged small Fiats.
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They realize that some defense companies are paying hefty dividends (almost 6% at BAE Systems, 5% at Lockheed Martin), but as Heidi Wood of Morgan Stanley points out, that matters less if taxes on dividends are likely to rise.
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Alex Kinmont, an investment analyst for Morgan Stanley, points out that the domestic overcapacity in Japan's car market is equivalent to Britain's total car production.
Bill Pecoriello, beverage analyst at Morgan Stanley, points out that reporting options as an expense would have cut Pepsi's 2001 earnings per share 10%, or 17 cents per share.
Dick Berner, an economist at Morgan Stanley, points out that American house prices have risen by more in real terms over the past five years than during any previous five-year period.
As Stephen Roach of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter points out, every economic expansion since the second world war has had at least one quarter of growth below 1% which did not become a serious downturn.
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As John Wotowicz of Morgan Stanley, an American investment bank, points out, Europe will soon be brimming over with suitably junky companies.
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Andy Xie, chief China economist for Morgan Stanley Dean Witter in Hong Kong, points out that if foreign creditors don't roll over debts for red-chip companies, most of which are severely overstretched financially, the latter could start going under too.
Moreover, points out Teun Draaisma of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, there is less inflationary pressure in Europe and the euro looks steady.
But the gap widened most in Britain between early February and the end of March, points out Laurence Mutkin of Morgan Stanley, an investment bank.
Stephen Roach, also of Morgan Stanley and a well-known contrarian, points out that less than a third of the run-up in construction spending over the past decade has been reversed.
We scored each city on the number of times one of its teams has lost in the postseason, adjusting the misery points to give the most weight to losing in the final round (World Series, Super Bowl, NBA Final, Stanley Cup Final) and doling out progressively fewer points for losing earlier playoff rounds.
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