Vasella has been playing the waiting game quite a bit--analysts love to speculate that Novartis will buy another drug company, like Roche or maybe Bristol-Myers Squibb (nyse: BMY - news - people ).

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But Mr. Remengesau sounds like he's sick of playing the long game, waiting for tuna to become lucrative for Pacific islands at some future date.

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While the U.S. data recently have not been grand by any means, it has generally been in line or better than expected and I would think the Fed would still be playing more of a waiting game than priming any presses at this point.

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