"Perhaps it willnotfail within this year, but I don't think Sharp has a viable business in the next three to five years, " said Tetsuro Ii, chief executive of Commons Asset Management in Tokyo.
But Dino Kos, a former head of markets at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (and now a strategist for Portales Partners, a broker), says the new requirement almost guarantees that an auction willnotfail.