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Mr. Roadrunner, while providing valuable information about the future batteries also gets into some circular logic. Letting sprawl mart run amuck in Japan will cost a lot of jobs (as clearly mentioned in RR's comment) and all these jobless haps won't be able to buy the cheaper toothpaste and dinner sets and dress pants by "George" because they have no money!!! Japanese people will wake up one of these days and realize that their lunch is being stolen regularly via the 'Yen carry' trades because their Government QE policy of keeping interest rates near zero for almost two decades now. May be Sony or Matsushita will come up with a super-duper rechargeable battery. I would dump WMT and replace it with either IBM, HPQ, FCX or JNJ.

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Based on its current price (around $9.30), GIM is paying 5.4% dividend, a monthly payment of 0.042/share. Before investing in it, make sure you have the risk tolerance! It lost close to 40% of share value when all the markets crashed Sept08-Mar09 but has nicely recovered since then. May be a good idea to buy etfs like FXE and CYB (it is an etf for Chinese Yuan but also an apt acronym for covering the behind!!)