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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly?
MSFT 491.12+1.7%Dec 8 3:59 PM EST

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To: PMS Witch who wrote (42539)4/19/2000 11:41:00 AM
From: SunSpot   of 74651
 
OK - my figures were a little old. The economy gets more global and then the size of the national economy matters more and more. Here are some 1998 estimates from the CIA Worldbook for exports:

USA: $663 billion (population 273 million)
Germany: $510 billion (population 82 million)
Japan: $440 billion (population 126 million)

Germany is the locomotive of european economy. Additionally, it links east europe to west Europe, because many people in east europe learned German during WW2. Additionally, German is the most spoken language besides Russian in Europe, and it's the country with the longest border to eastern Europe. What Germany does is therefore very important to the rest of Europe.
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