At the same time, even the UN's alarmist Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has had to finally admit that global temperatures have been flat for at least 16 years despite rising atmospheric CO2 levels.
Therefore around half of Serco's revenue base will, at best, be flat for the next two years, in our view.
Though Novastar's price is flat for 2004, at $43.28, it pays out a whopping 13% dividend.
Revenue was flat for the quarter at Morgan Stanley, while it increased by 19 percent at Goldman Sachs during the same period.
Revenue, however, was flat for the year, at $10.6 billion, because the company kept rates for calls frozen despite inflation.
In a recent study, Sanford C. Bernstein & Company found that because of pipeline limitations, January consumption has been flat for the last 10 years at about 2.3 trillion cubic feet.
According to the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions, business over all managed a slight increase in 2001, to 319 million in attendance from 317 million in 2000 at the 450 parks in the United States and abroad, and revenues were flat for the year at $9.6 billion.
Holding a 38% share of the U.S. athletic shoe market, footwear sales were flat for the quarter at $865 million, while apparel revenue increased by 6% to $329 million.
But overseas ticket sales contributed all of the increase, as sales in North America were flat for a second year, at $10.6 billion, despite a boom in sales of higher-priced 3-D tickets.
Equity markets closed lower for the week.Crude oil futures were flat for the week, trading at $76 a barrel late on Friday afternoon.Gold futures were lower on Friday, selling for $1,188 an ounce on late Friday afternoon.
