WSJを真面目に読む August 10-12, 2012

薄商いの一週間。来週はお盆ウィーク。さらに薄い商いと思われる。少量の資金移動で価格の変動が大きくなる可能性あり。夏休み明けまで、平穏に動いてくれればいいのだが。

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【一面見出し】

Gu awaits verdict after brief trial

The trial of Gu Kallai, the wife of the disgraced Community Party official Bo Xilai, began and ended in a single day Thursday with authorities saying she didn’t contest charges that she murdered a British businessman by poisoning him when he was drunk.

              verdict: 評決 

              殺害の具体的なやり方も出てきた。すごいね。

 

China data damp hopes for rebound

              China’s factory output showed further slowing, damping hopes that Beijing’s shift to stimulus would trigger a rapid rebound in the world’s second-largest economy, and compounding fears about a flagging global recovery.

 

At Yahoo, Mayer makeover begins

              Yohoo Inc.’s rookie chief executive Marissa Mayer has made one thing clear to employees at the outset of her bid to revive the internet company: Product comes first.

              makeover: 作り直し、大変革

              at the outset: 最初に

              この女性新社長、頑張ってほしいですね。10月出産予定だと言われるが何日休むのだろうか。

 

Business & Finance

Platinum play is wager on Euro

              Some hedge funds have found a new venue to wager on a worsening outlook for Europe: the platinum market.

              wager: 賭けの対象

 

PepsiCo to re-enter Myanmar market

              PepsiCo Inc. said it reached a deal to distribute its products in Myanmar through a local partner, interest in the once-reclusive South Asian nation.

              reclusive: 閉鎖された、孤立した

 

J.P. Morgan details the extent of “whale” hit

              J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. on Thursday outlined how the ill-placed trading hedges from its London chief investment office continue to be felt in share buybacks, capital rations and trading losses.

 

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