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...disaggregation among media companies--if not much of corporate America. Shares in media concerns have been eviscerated by an advertising recession, high debt loads and, in AOL Time Warner's case (down 55% this year), slowing Internet subscriber growth. AOL Time Warner shares have also been hit by investor aversion to companies with complex accounting stories, in the wake of bookkeeping scandals at WorldCom, Qwest and Adelphia Communications...
...were piling into stocks at a breathtaking pace, transforming not just household finances but the balance of economic power. (Or so it seemed.) But now even in the U.S., where half of all households were in stocks or stock funds, that faith in equities is being challenged. And European investors may actually be more disillusioned, and could prove even slower to return to shares. It's about timing. "The retail investor in Europe is a young investor," says Michael Hartnett, a Merrill Lynch strategist in London. "He came into the market toward the end of the bubble and has experienced...
...elections - due in April 2004, but almost certain to be held in late autumn. There lies the road ahead for Turkey as it recovers from the political earthquake triggered on July 8, when Ozkan set off the wave of resignations. With the country's economy on life support and investor confidence badly shaken, Cem and Dervis are - with their considerable international credibility - critical to Turkey's immediate future. Their presence is reassuring, too, as Turkey struggles to meet E.U. membership criteria, commands the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan and possibly plays a vital role in any future U.S. attack...
Those of us employed by corporations whose destiny has, in recent years, been substantially determined by stock prices understand all too well the pressures facing our Person of the Week - the American investor, on whose slumped shoulders a troublesome burden has been placed. Last year, the fortunes of America Inc. depended on the willingness of the nation's consumers to keep whipping out the plastic even as jobs, bonuses and retirement funds were disappearing by the hour. But not even the consumers' continued spending was enough to prevent U.S. corporations shedding more than $2.5 trillion in market capitalization this year...
...hard to say no to Taufik Kiemas. That much a senior executive from Indonesia's largest foreign investor, U.S. mining giant Freeport McMoRan, knew when he accompanied President Megawati Sukarnoputri's controversial husband to the company's mine site last September. Freeport officials were aware that Taufik had been asking about a chunk of shares in the company's Indonesian operations previously held by Mohamad ("Bob") Hasan, a confidant of former President Suharto. Indeed, the issue of the shares came up soon after the Freeport executive boarded the presidential C-130 aircraft carrying Taufik and a 40-member entourage. With...