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...recent poll conducted by British tour operator Thomson Holidays found that of 1,000 customers surveyed, 50% intended to send fewer postcards in the future, 14% said they had no time to write them and 10% preferred to call home instead. Tourists visiting the U.K. seem to be of a similar mind: Royal Mail statistics show the number of postcards mailed in Britain is falling by about a million each year-at a current 25 million, down from 30 million five years ago. The downward trend can be seen elsewhere. The Finland Post Corp. blames text messaging for the decline...
...time it takes to deliver a postcard is also out of sync with the way we holiday now. In the Thomson poll, 25% of respondents said postcards took too long to arrive. That may not have been true 20 years ago, when people went on trips of opulent duration-a three-week meander through Europe, say, or a monthlong U.S. tour. But in these days of city breaks and three-night packages, you usually get home before your postcards...
Richard J. Peterson had an exciting week last week for the first time in ages. As chief market strategist for the U.S.-based data firm Thomson Financial, Peterson keeps track of companies around the world who are buying and selling each other. And after some very slow years, he saw the urge to merge suddenly come rushing back. On Monday, Canada's Alcan launched a hostile j3.4 billion takeover bid for France's Pechiney, only the second such attempt in France in the past decade. The combined firms would be the world's largest aluminum company. The next day, three...
Cohen hopes that research firms like Morningstar and Thomson Financial will one day incorporate his method into their rating systems. In the meantime, you can approximate his research by focusing on the top 25 holdings. That fund information is available at morningstar.com Compare a young fund's top holdings with those of good and bad older funds in the same category. You want a lot of hits with the good funds and few with the bad ones--unless you're feeling lucky...
...medical start-ups, plunged to $1.9 billion last year (the least since '81) amid investment losses that roughly tracked the public markets. Yet over three years and longer, these funds have outperformed stocks. "The tourists have all left town," quips Jesse Reyes, a manager at the research firm Thomson Venture Economics. The fair-weather crowd he is talking about piled into venture funds in the late 1990s, when tech start-ups were soaring. Now, with disillusioned investors gone, less money is competing for assets that have become more attractively priced...