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Here's the IPO pitch: invest in a company with no sales, an operating loss since inception and an idea for a product. It's not Silicon Valley calling--it's Tinseltown. Civilian Capital is selling shares of a movie, set to star Ethan Hawke, that starts filming next spring. Financing films through public partnerships is nothing new, but with Billy Dead (the movie's working title) Inc., the ante is much lower than normal. Shares are pegged at $8.75, with a 100-share minimum. The IPO, which is set to end Feb. 10, aims to raise $7.9 million...
...invest anywhere, you have to be patient. To invest in Japan, you have to be masochistic. On Dec. 29, 1989, Japan's Nikkei 225 stock index closed at 38,915.87. Some 14 years later, the Nikkei is at 10,410.15--a 73% cumulative loss during a period when U.S. stocks quadrupled in value. Yet suddenly the Japanese market is hopping. The Nikkei is up 17% this year, just a hair behind U.S. stocks...
...fire with greater freedom. It's also examining calls to partially shift financing of some programs - such as health coverage and pensions - from the employer to privatized schemes workers would pay into. All that, Lenoir says, would leave both businesses and employees with more money to use and invest more efficiently, and according to need - though it's not likely to happen rapidly in protection-obsessed France. "Running a business also involves certain social and economic duties," he explains. "I'm not going to close this company and tell my employees, 'Sorry, but I can do better elsewhere. Blame...
...flat video screens, Rumsfeld marveled at the elusiveness of the quarry. ?I?m dumbfounded when I think about it,? he told Army Major General Raymond Odierno, commander of the 4th Infantry. ?The chances of us using that kind of money to find somebody - to figure out how to invest some time and develop a network and produce the information that would do it - I mean, that ought to be doable...
...added that HMC’s system of withholding some income to prevent future underperformance helps ensure that managers invest carefully...