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...stick if companies are required to count stock options as an expense--which is almost certain to happen this year or next. Seventy-four percent of firms would reduce or eliminate broad-based option plans, according to a survey out last week from Mellon Financial's Human Resources & Investor Solutions group. But only 25% said they would cut back on options for executives. At right are some ways companies say they'll try to make up the lost options to their nonexecutive employees. Requiring firms to expense options would give shareholders a better idea of costs, but companies that rely...
...animation spin-off is the latest chapter in the dismantling of DreamWorks, following the sale of its music business and exits from video games and Internet ventures. "They had the name recognition and horsepower to do magnificent things," says media investor Harold Vogel. A fairy-tale ending, however, appears to have been left onscreen. --By Daren Fonda
...other casino impresarios have brought sophistication to the new Las Vegas, MGM Mirage majority shareholder Kirk Kerkorian, 87, has supplied the scale. On three separate occasions over the past 35 years, the low-key billionaire investor has built the world's largest hotel on the Strip, most recently the mammoth 5,034-room MGM Grand in 1993. In the past five years, Kerkorian has ushered in a wave of consolidation, snapping up Steve Wynn's Mirage Resorts in 2000 and just last month agreeing to buy Mandalay Resort Group for $7.9 billion, including debt. A World War II pilot...
Jaroslav Kubera, the 56-year-old chain-smoking mayor of the Czech spa town of Teplice, is a man who likes to live and let live. A bookshelf in his office, for instance, bears a SMOKING PERMITTED sign. But these days a dispute pitting Arab investors against local people is making him smoke even more than usual. Kubera is in a tight spot. On one side are residents trying to stop a hotel and mosque from being built in the ancient resort town (pop. 53,000); on the other, private backers of the project who aim to invest...
...budget carriers starting up, they might be a bigger threat to each other than to the major carriers. Thailand has no fewer than seven low-cost operators. Tiny Singapore will be home to three: Valuair, Tiger Airways and an entry in which Australia's Qantas Airways is a major investor. Backed by powerhouse Singapore Airlines, Tiger plans to launch late this year on at least six routes. "We'll grow as quickly as we can and fly wherever we can," vows Stephen Johnson of Phoenix-based Indigo Partners, an investment company that owns 24% of Tiger. But for all these...