Everyone is anticipating the growth and attraction of this market.

The basic economic trends in India remain pretty compelling. Growth should still be in the 6 to 6.5 percent range. They've managed to keep inflation under control and you've had a private sector that has a history of detaching itself from some of the politics going on.

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Even as a moderate slowing in US growth looms, growth prospects have improved for other engines of the world economy.

That and a generous [share] buyback program should sustain earnings-per-share growth of 15% to 20%.

The bottom line for German growth this year is that recovery momentum is flagging with GDP likely to rise by no more than 0.8 percent in 2005,