Named Autostadt (Car City), the VW campus is open to the public and is marked most promimently by a Ritz-Carlton Hotel (the only other one in Germany is in Berlin) and two cylindrical towers 48 meters high that hold 400 new cars ready for pick-up by their prospective owners.

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For believers in Netflix, those looking to pick up shares and hold them over the intermediate term, for example, the potential for lower prices in the stock over the next few days is a good reason to remain sidelined for now.

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Europe has hesitated more than the United States to subject its banks to measures like stress tests because of an entrenched belief that it would be better to wait for the market to recover and for the bad assets that banks still hold to pick up on value.

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