Indonesia's part in this deal involves banning new permits for the conversion of virgin forest and carbon-rich peat lands, though analysts say any new laws limiting commercial clearing could prove difficult to enforce.
B4 BUSINESS DAY C1-28 AT&T's Earnings Drop AT&T, in the middle of perhaps the most ambitious corporate makeover in the land, beat analyst earnings estimates by 2 cents, posting financial results strikingly similar to those of the last three quarters.
"I don't want to step on any political toes," says Jason Patrick, land-use analyst at the Environmental Defense Fund.
Despite concerns in China about the slowing pace of economic growth, "the Chinese economy remains on track for a soft landing," Barclays Capital analysts said.
"Today's trade data should go some way to ease fears that China's economy is heading for a hard landing," Mark Williams, an analyst at Capital Economics, said in a report.
Al McGuire, a New York original whose 20 years as a college head coach and 23 years as a brash and feisty television analyst landed him in the Basketball Hall of Fame, died yesterday in Milwaukee.
Apple's AT&T phone, which uses G.S.M. networking technology, would not work on Verizon's network, which uses a different networking technology called C.D.M.A. "It is going to have a fairly disruptive impact when it lands," said Charles Wolf, an analyst with Needham & Company.
Coincidentally, just after encountering the promise of "real humans", an email from an analyst firm lands in my inbox — touting a piece of forthcoming research in which the firm predicts that virtual digital assistants will overtake the world population by 2021.
"It is desirable because it's such wide open land," said David W. Anders, an analyst with Credit Suisse First Boston.
"The data is mostly above consensus and confirms that growth is picking up and that China is not at risk of hard landing," said Dariusz Kowalczyk, an analyst at Credit Agricole in Hong Kong, in a note to clients.
