<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/78e4b221-0642-4f89-b4dd-e7418d12708c/DEAC4D4C-A248-4BEF-B8A4-D43457759339/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://i5invest.wordpress.com/2008/01/20/internationally-diverse-companies-best-equipt-to-weather-recession-woes/" href="http://i5invest.wordpress.com/2008/01/20/internationally-diverse-companies-best-equipt-to-weather-recession-woes/" style="font-size: 11px;">i5invest.wordpress.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://i5invest.wordpress.com/2008/01/20/internationally-diverse-companies-best-equipt-to-weather-recession-woes/">BusinessWeek has an <A target="_blank" href="http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_04/b4068032068649.htm">interesting report</A> asserting that US tech companies with a strong international presence will weather the recession much better than US-centric companies.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://i5invest.wordpress.com/2008/01/20/internationally-diverse-companies-best-equipt-to-weather-recession-woes/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/i5invest.wordpress.com/img/8FDDBC44-9D74-4842-808F-13BA96489C0F" alt="foreign-exposure.jpg" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://i5invest.wordpress.com/2008/01/20/internationally-diverse-companies-best-equipt-to-weather-recession-woes/"><P>IBM is among the most diversified abroad, with just 39% of its revenues coming from inside the country. Other companies that get less than half their revenues from home include HP, Oracle (<A rel="ticker" href="http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/snapshot/snapshot.asp?symbol=ORCL">ORCL</A>), and Sun Microsystems (<A rel="ticker" href="http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/snapshot/snapshot.asp?symbol=JAVA">JAVA</A>), according to financial filings. <B>In contrast, AT&T and Yahoo! pull in the majority of their sales from the U.S. </B></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/DEAC4D4C-A248-4BEF-B8A4-D43457759339/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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