As Xerox fiddled with financial engineering, Canon continued to invest in new technologies to gain ground in the copier market, with new methods for printing multiple colours and finer, more efficient inks.
Reading between the lines, it appears the Fed, while keeping its monetary policy very accommodative, is beginning to lay the ground work ever so slowly that its money-printing presses cannot roll on forever, especially as the U.S. economy is picking up a slight head of steam.