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...market is a potential lifeline, but Beijing classifies Hong Kong movies as foreign, so only a handful of films are admitted every year. That leaves the mainland's prodigious taste for Hong Kong stars to be filled by pirated DVDS and VCDS that are cutting into profits regionwide. Andre Morgan, a Hollywood film producer with decades of experience in the Asian market, says Hong Kong also has a language barrier. When studios began making movies in Cantonese rather than Mandarin, Morgan explains, "It was one of the most critical mistakes they ever made. It limited the future." Morgan, who believes...
...city's findings. But the Tokyo government withdrew $2.5 billion from the bank in April, lending credence to his threat to yank more money in months to come. "The government is applying great pressure on Ishihara not to penalize Mizuho," says Hideyasu Ban, who follows Japanese banks for Morgan Stanley. "But nobody knows what he will...
...world's top vodka makers, started its own brand of malt drink with Smirnoff Ice, which is deemed fit for the airwaves. Many other distillers are touting their flavored malt beverages to go up against the beer companies--and get exposure. Drinks such as Bacardi Silver, Captain Morgan Gold (also by Diageo), Jack Daniel's Hard Cola, Skyy Blue, Sauza Diablo, Smirnoff Ice and Stolichnaya Citrona contain no distilled spirits but look a lot like their hard-core siblings...
Here's how they work: an etf share represents a basket of stocks or bonds typically pegged to a major index such as the S&P 500 or Morgan Stanley Capital International's benchmark foreign index, eafe (Europe, Asia, Far East). There are now 102 such ETFs in the U.S., including some that target specific industries and countries. They can be bought and sold through any broker and can be traded through...
There are 22 ETFs pegged to Morgan Stanley single-country indexes. A good one-shot foreign portfolio is iShares MSCI EAFE (EFA). But you could add, say, iShares MSCI South Korea (EWY), getting more exposure to a country in which many pros are overweight. Even in a bad market there are winners, and ETFs make it easy to scour the globe for them...