LONDON (Dow Jones)--Copper's recent gains are built on a market perception that China is to increase its physical strategic reserves, when the country actually intends to boost its exploration activities, industry analysts said Wednesday.
=DJ INTERVIEW:China Economist: Gold Reserve Comments Not New
SHANGHAI (Dow Jones)--A part-time Chinese economist whose comments on China's gold reserves were cited as a reason behind the yellow metal's most recent price rise said he has long promoted the attributes of gold and has no knowledge of central bank policy.
Just in one day, two misreadings by the international market have resulted in price changes of two most price-sensitive commodities worldwide -- copper and gold, and the reason for that is a news agency other than D J pick up Chinese news reports inappropriately, to be more accurate, one over-amplification while the other omitting important information.
Global investors, after reading the pickups by that agency, found the only thing they don't lack is fresh news for trading. However, such inappropriate news handling is no good thing at all for the already existing IRRATIONAL EXUBERANCE.
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Snoopy @ 2006-05-10 21:48
Copper Gains Built On Mkt Reading Of China Reserves Plans
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Snoopy @ 2006-03-16 22:44
小石mm一直说，她的另一半必须是她欣赏的人。欣赏的意思是他必须是一个有能力、有思想、有情有义、有故事的“四有”新人。 九点准时到办公室，打开Outlook，照例在几十封邮件中找那些急需处理的。突然，有一封E-mail让她觉得些许奇怪—— 在R用了四五个小时从新加坡飞到北京后，小石mm周六当天晚上就和R面对面坐在了一家餐馆里。 怎么能不笑呢？这位R同学虽然要求严格得一度让刚进公司的小石mm感觉压力巨大，甚至还时不时地kill她的稿子，或是让她重新organize，但是还真是才气逼人，三个月之后，小石mm的文章已经写地她自己都看不懂得好了。虽然仍然有长足的进步的空间，但是回头望去，这半年学到的东西，怎么说都比前一年半要多得多啊。真的要谢谢R。 R还在那边看着她。 |
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Snoopy @ 2006-03-08 23:46
Wall Street Journal, on its front page, has a column named "What's News", which can be read as "Let me tell you what you need to know."
Looking back, my understanding of the word "news", not very long ago, was still NEWs and North+East+West+South. Certainly, I was able to discuss "relevance", "significance", "draft of history" things like that long ago, when I thought I did know what the word means. However, it's not until very recently, after joining the current organization, after more than 1 1/2 year's involvement in media industry, that I began to taste the real meaning of the word (in the western context).
This is the third time that my article was "bounced back" from the desk, after taking on the job, and they were all about choosing what to put at the top of the article, about structure. I used to think that structure was something that I was good at, but now I realzie the point is not really about the entire picture, but that slim piece of cream above all.
When the editor asked "What is the news?", they were actually asking "What do you plan to tell the readers?" And, THIS IS PURELY SUBJECTIVE.
Remember, no news is objective.
I never thought that news can be so objective. Among all the facts that you include in a certain article, it is you, the writer of the story, that decides what to put at the top. For a story about China's going to import GM corn, to put government's giving permits to companies or the first shipping of the corn is coming at the top is a question. For a story about CCA closed a talk with its US counterparts to revise contracts, local firms going to use new contracts and the negociation between the two party has closed are among the choices of a lead.
After building up the entire picture of foreign investment in local xx processing industry, what to begin with? After all, the topic isn't the lead to begin with. It's still "What do you really want to say?"
Suddenly, the previous confusions settled. I finally began to understand why sb said, "It's there, but one needs to sort it out. It's a little bit vague." and "What's the difference between what you write (as an opinion piece) and an ordinary one."
So, what is the criteria for the choice?
I'm still not 100% sure, but the following are some of the keys: simplicity, clear, juicy, exotic.
This, unfortunately, will twist the real world, creating a pseudo-environment in people's minds.
An over-emphasis on market-driven and relavance will amplify the significance of certain events arbitrarily, and when you decide not to run the story at all, it under-estimates its relavance.
Some journalists, especially overseas, have been complaining the boring two conferences. I'm not really sure what they're looking for, but I do know that huge amount of information created by local media has become a burden for some while junk for others.
So, what is the thing that really matters and how can you know?
By now, I realize that my nonsense is again going to result in nihilism, and far from my intention to reflect upon my journalistic judgments and providing an insight on media for my friends.
In the past few years, top executives of big tradition media -- print, radio, and broadcast -- often say "Let's listen to what our readers want/need." to their employees, amid an aggressive advancement of digital media. Is it something that merely intends to cheat the audiences and the investors in the media? |
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Snoopy @ 2006-03-07 23:01
看乔家大院有段时间了。一开始，看到的是金融机构监管，entrepreneurship，ambition，perspective等等。呵呵，大家知道，中国的电视剧吗，多少总要讲讲当下的。不过这两天不对了，看到的是大大的时代中小小的个人力量。
孙茂才当初提醒过乔致庸不要涉足于票号业（也就是银行业），说此为“国之利器”，不可碰，ambitious的乔当然不会听孙的劝告，结果就是朝廷认为他是个会下金蛋的鸡，不断地问他要钱。要啊要，要得乔穷的丁当响了。
我在想，如果乔当时生在美利坚或是不列颠，日子应该会好过很多吧。可惜啊！所以说当初中学课本里的“个人命运与国家命运的一致性”是很有道理的。只是，当时强调的那个角度是大家要使劲为国家作贡献，然后国家富强了，个人才能富强。而另一个perspective是，国家祭器有问题的时候，你个人也强不了。
政治和经济是有关的，呵呵，这个大家都知道。问题在于现在在开two conferences的同志们，在讲教育、科技创新等等问题的时候，有没有想过这个联系呢？
今天看新闻，有个上海代表好可爱，不过显然看问题也很有水平，他说的大致意思是：照现在的科研运作方式，爱因斯坦同学是不会发现相对论的，因为他不可能在作研究之前就知道他会发现相对论，而不知道的话，他就没办法申请到科研经费，那自然也不会有现代物理学和原子弹咯。
呵呵，有点像绕口令哦。 |
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Snoopy @ 2006-03-05 23:03
中午和一群新闻界的朋友吃饭，大家自然就谈到了京城著名的安同学的blog。话题从block谈到翻译，然后是传播学意义上的讨论。再之后，自然而然的就过渡到了会议期间记者和代表的blog。
“许多看似不相关的事，其实是相关联的。”多年前阮次山为“新闻今日谈”做的commercial让我印象深刻。
所以，当有人在柴静的blog上转贴网友在王小丫的blog上骂王没有深度的评论时，闾丘接到老板的电话说要把节目做得个性化并揣测改名“闾丘看两会”源自于何时，就没什么好奇怪了。
媒体，是一个竞争极度激烈的行业。如果说可口可乐、百事可乐，肯德基、麦当劳的竞争是一场马拉松的话，那媒体机构间的竞争就是由无数个100米冲刺构成的。当这个世界上有人专门将每天道琼斯、路透、彭博的重要新闻上wire的时间做个表，显示哪个快哪个慢，发给记者的时候，你就会明白为什么记者说自己做的是苦差使——钱少、辛苦、压力大、短命、容易得心脏病。
现如今，记者的苦差使又多了一个，就是每天要feed自己的blog。Thanks to the equal platform created by Web 2.0，blog成了新一轮媒体公关的主战场。当你看到几百个评论外加网友的建议时，新浪blog不但是新浪本身promotion的杰出成绩，同时也是安全工作、记者所属机构争夺观众的主战场。
当刘老板发现自己手下名将的blog跟贴只有几十，几倍落后于柴和王的时，不知道他会怎么想。
没错，有很多人在央视“名嘴”的blog上认真地书写自己的愿望，希望能被注意到。没错，其中的一部分上了柴的节目。但是，so what？一周以后，有多少人能记得这些“认真”书写的东西呢？又也许，几周以后，这些东西就会从新浪的server上消失的无影无踪，就跟从来没存在过一样。
每天更新自己的blog是非常重要的一件事情。网友对幕后事件了解的满足感，和历史事件的参与感，是收视的新的动因。而至于，认真书写的内容的后续发展，并不那么重要。
下一次，谈谈“关联性”。 |