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Strategies & Market Trends : Commodities - The Coming Bull Market

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To: TobagoJack who wrote (511)7/13/2001 2:24:34 PM
From: Stephen O  Read Replies (1) of 1643
 
Beijing Picked to Host 2008 Summer Olympic Games Moscow, July 13 (Bloomberg) -- Beijing was awarded the 2008
Summer Olympics, overcoming criticism of the Chinese communist
party's human-rights record and setting up a race for $20 billion
in road, subway and stadium contracts.
International Olympic Committee members voting in Moscow gave
China's capital city 56 votes, Toronto 22, Paris 18 and Istanbul
nine. Osaka, Japan, was eliminated on the first of two ballots. It
was Beijing's second attempt to host the Games after losing the
2000 Games to Sydney by two votes.
Beijing's investment plan was twice as big as Toronto's and
10 times Paris's proposal. Companies with ventures in China from
General Motors Corp. to Pabst Brewing Co. sponsored Beijing's bid,
hoping to boost sales to 1.3 billion consumers.
``They will have a housing boom, they will improve all the
infrastructure,'' said William Overholt, chief Asia regional
strategist at Nomura International (Hong Kong) Ltd. ``Probably the
biggest benefit is they get to clean up the pollution.''

This will be a big boost for commodities. Stephen O
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