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Early openers showing a lack of zing: Kiwis +0.1%, Aussies -0.4%, Nikkers -0.4% and Sth Korea -0.6%.

 

A downward bias for Aussie sectors: Telecomms -2%, REITS -1.5% with Energy +0.9% the main green mover.

 

 

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Asia turned around intraday and All Ords followed suit to close -0.2%. Not much changed in the sectors: Telecomms -2%, REITS -1.3% and at the other end, Energy +0.7%.

 

Asia off the lows: China flat, Honkers -0.5%, India -0.4% and Nikkers -0.2%.

 

 

On to UK/Europe:

 

 

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Interesting problem for carriers:

 

Jan. 24:

 

Verizon Communication, the second-largest U.S. phone company, reported a fourth-quarter loss after booking a pension charge and having higher subsidy costs for rising iPhone sales.

 

Feb. 8:

 

Sprint Nextel third-largest U.S. mobile network operator by subscriber numbers, reported a substantially larger fourth-quarter net loss than the same quarter a year ago, mainly reflecting the higher costs of selling Apple's heavily subsidised iPhone 4S.

 

 

 

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It gets worse, it takes 12-18 months to recover iPh cost for carriers,

but guest what iPh "renew" cycle is ... 12-18 months, so in the end they

hardly make any money for themselves, they just make money for Apple :ninja:

 

Interesting problem for carriers:

 

Jan. 24:

 

Verizon Communication, the second-largest U.S. phone company, reported a fourth-quarter loss after booking a pension charge and having higher subsidy costs for rising iPhone sales.

 

Feb. 8:

 

Sprint Nextel third-largest U.S. mobile network operator by subscriber numbers, reported a substantially larger fourth-quarter net loss than the same quarter a year ago, mainly reflecting the higher costs of selling Apple's heavily subsidised iPhone 4S.

 

 

 

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