None of this matters much, however, once you see the tower in the skyline, a view that seems to lift Lower Manhattan out of its decade-long gloom.
Telecinco's audience share and earnings are expected to drop this year.In this section A stress test for good intentions A billion-euro question Payback for Piëch Zapped Clock-watchers no more So long, Sol Gloom and boom Call the carabiniere ReprintsSurely the commercial stations stand to benefit as advertisers shift their spending from TVE? Alas, the French experience suggests otherwise.
Sales at convenience stores exceeded those at department stores for the first time in 2008, signalling a shift from chic to cheap.In this section A stress test for good intentions A billion-euro question Payback for Piëch Zapped Clock-watchers no more So long, Sol Gloom and boom Call the carabiniere ReprintsAnother reason for some companies' strong performance is specific to Japan, however.
England's Ashes win in August did little to lift the long-term gloom for underlying sales.
For refiners it is a welcome respite from a long spell of gloom.
The risk with such crude measures is that it is easy to overdo things and cause a more severe contraction than intended.Short-run gloom, long-run boomThe recent pace of China's growth is unsustainable and the rest of the world needs to prepare itself for slower growth and weaker import demand from China over the next year or two.
I look forward to that with glee, because the instantaneous ascent to reluctant superstardom of someone who has long toiled in subterranean gloom makes a captivating story.
On the flip side, some, like Fred Honerkamp, have been visited by children whose expectations seem to have sunk to match the gloom; not long ago, a boy asked him for only one item — a pair of sneakers that actually fit.
Amazon's recommendation engine, although helpful, is rather impersonal perhaps the retailer's second-biggest weakness, after the resentment publishers feel for it.The book business has long been suffused with gloom; Mr Osnos says that booksellers have faced five or six supposedly fatal challenges during his career.
But that doom and gloom is long gone.
