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...started music services. And this month, Japan's KDDI plans to offer 10,000 wirelessly downloadable tunes for $2 to $3 a track. "This really is a step forward because you get CD-quality files for the first time" via a cellular network, says Kirk Boodry, an analyst with Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein in Tokyo. "The potential for this service seems very strong...
...Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the Kremlin is seeking to recoup at least $4 billion in taxes by forcibly selling the firm's main asset, Yuganskneftegaz, which controls vast Siberian oil fields. The subsidiary, which pumps 1 million bbl. of oil per day - about 60% of Yukos' output - has been valued by Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein at between $14.7 and $17.3 billion. Reports last week suggested the Kremlin might hand it to a Russian rival, Gazprom, for a fraction of that price. "It's robbery in broad daylight," complains Robert Amsterdam, a lawyer for Khodorkovsky, who says the Kremlin has no right to proceed...
...corporate outlook is beginning to brighten. A worldwide survey of 513 business executives by consultant Ernst & Young recently ranked Germany the third most attractive country in which to invest, behind China and the U.S. Deutsche Bank and Dresdner Bank reported healthy profits in the first three months of 2004, after heavy losses for the same period last year, a sign that German banks can succeed by cutting excess retail staff and pruning bad debt. Media companies like Axel Springer, publisher of Bild and Die Welt, are bouncing back from a crippling advertising drought. Companies are winning important labor concessions. Siemens...
...already been warily monitoring Beijing's efforts to cool overheated sectors such as real estate, fearful that clampdowns on credit and investment could crimp their China trade. Now there's a new worry: "China's dependence on oil is very high," says Shuji Shirota, chief economist at investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein in Tokyo. "If [oil] prices choked off growth in China, that would have a big effect on Japan...
...lowered interest rates to zero. But Fukui has boldly set out a series of unorthodox monetary-easing programs designed to counteract the country's crippling six-year bout of deflation, flooding the nation with cash. "Fukui has been activist and interventionist," says Shuji Shirota, an economist at the Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein investment bank in Tokyo. Fukui's efforts are having an impact: consumer-price deflation slowed to 0.3% last year, compared with...