But while the prospect of seeing his family again sustained him, the possible price troubled him.
Plagued by executive departures, fierce competition from Facebook, a rough recent earnings report and share price troubles, it's easy to imagine the team getting distracted.
Foreign investors have faced their own pricing troubles in a world gas market that faces overproduction.
He says while a new facility in Malaysia may alleviate some pricing troubles, that new facility will not be operational until next year.
Relatively high wages mean that Russian firms struggle to compete on price.The trouble is that Russian businesses cannot compete on quality either, since they are not investing in technology and equipment.
Stocks are already priced for trouble, he said, so it may not take much to get a rally started.
Instead, it would mean falling property prices and trouble for rickety institutions in China's shadow-banking sector.
On the other hand, low prices spell trouble for developers that over-invested during the stimulus binge of 2009 and 2010 — often into office blocks and retail spaces in smaller cities such as Urumqi, Guiyang or Ordos, where China's overall growth is perhaps not yet generating the demand needed to fill the space.
The retreat of crude prices spelled trouble for the big oil marketers: shares in PetroChina got drilled by 5.4%, to 6.44 Hong Kong dollars (83 cents), and China Petroleum and Chemical Corp., better known as Sinopec, seeped down by 7.6%, to 4.77 Hong Kong dollars (62 cents).
Although developing countries have been somewhat immune to tightened credit conditions since they have lower interest rates and competitive exports and commodity prices, financing troubles in some emerging markets have already scrapped several infrastructure projects, Caterpillar said.
