Battle for Lions Gate ends with Icahn selling

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Activist investor Carl Icahn said Tuesday that he is shedding his entire stake in Lions Gate Entertainment Corp., ending a more than two-year battle for control and sending shares of the niche movie studio tumbling in after-hours trading.

The sale, announced after the market closed, included an agreement for both sides to drop all pending lawsuits against each other.

Lions Gate and its next largest investor, Mark Rachesky, each agreed to buy back a quarter of Icahn's shares for $7 each, which is about what Icahn spent acquiring his one-third stake in the company.

Lions Gate said that it has the right to designate one or more parties to purchase Icahn's remaining stake, also at $7 a share, over the next 35 days.

The studio's shares fell 5 percent, or 37 cents, to $7.15 in aftermarket trading.

Icahn wished the company well in a statement.

"As some have noted, my own 'slate' is pretty full at the time, and I therefore determined that it is a good time to exit," he said.

Icahn is also the largest shareholder in Clorox and is seeking election to the board of that company. He said Tuesday that he would vote to sell Clorox if appointed ? or he would buy it himself.

Lions Gate CEO Jon Feltheimer said Icahn's departure was in the best interests of Lions Gate shareholders and noted that because the company is buying back some of Icahn's shares, the number of shares outstanding will be reduced and share value should increase.

The company's portion of the buyback amounts to a little more than 11 million shares, or 8 percent of the total.

"We believe that this accretive and antidilutive transaction is in the best interests of all Lions Gate shareholders, and it allows the company to continue to focus on the execution of its long-term business plan," Feltheimer said in a statement.

Analyst Marla Backer with Hudson Square Research, who has a "buy" rating on the shares and a $9 price target, said that the agreement to part ways was a good thing.

"What Lions Gate went through with Icahn months ago was very debilitating and cost shareholders significantly," she said. Legal bills were in the millions of dollars and distracted the company from regular operations, she said.

But she added that the tumultuous period during which Icahn second-guessed every Lions Gate decision ? including opposing and then supporting an ultimately failed bid to buy legendary studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. ? may have helped the company figure out its priorities.

"It forced management to take a real look at reassessing what its core businesses are," she said.

In June, Lions Gate agreed to sell its Canadian distribution arm, Maple Pictures, for $38.5 million. After its quarterly earnings release earlier this month, CEO Feltheimer reiterated the company's aim to simplify its business and sell off non-core assets.

Lions Gate, which is based in Vancouver, Canada, but operates out of Santa Monica, Calif., produces such hit television shows as "Mad Men," ''Weeds" and "Nurse Jackie." Its latest movie release, "Conan the Barbarian," bombed at the box office, but analysts have high hopes for the 2012 release of "The Hunger Games," the first in a movie series based on the young adult books by author Suzanne Collins.

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7 Tools for a Post-Hurricane Cleanup [Video]

Thankfully, Hurricane Irene wasn't as bad as it could have been in some places. But there were still plenty of people affected by the Hurricane in significant ways. What do they do next? Well, they clean up. Here are seven tools to help. More »

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Irene: Wet, deadly and expensive, but no monster

AP/Mel Evans

A man walks on top of a wall next to a flooded highway in New Brunswick, N.J., Sunday, as heavy rains left by Hurricane Irene are causing inland flooding of rivers and streams.

The storm that had been Hurricane Irene crossed into Canada overnight but wasn't yet through with the U.S., where flood waters threatened Vermont towns and New Yorkers who returned to work had to make do with a slowly reopening transit system.

The storm left millions without power across much of the Eastern Seaboard, left at least two dozen dead and forced airlines to cancel about 9,000 flights. It never became the big-city nightmare forecasters and public officials had warned about, but it still had the ability to surprise.

Many of the worst effects arose from rains that fell inland, not the highly anticipated storm surge along the coasts. Residents of Pennsylvania and New Jersey nervously watched waters rise as hours' worth of rain funneled into rivers and creeks. Normally narrow ribbons of water turned into raging torrents in Vermont and upstate New York late Sunday, tumbling with tree limbs, cars and parts of bridges.

"This is not over," President Barack Obama said from the Rose Garden.

Hundreds of Vermonters were told to leave their homes after Irene dumped several inches of rain on the landlocked state. Video posted on Facebook showed a 141-year-old covered bridge in Rockingham swept away by the roiling, muddy Williams River. In another video, an empty car somersaulted down a river in Bennington.

"It's pretty fierce. I've never seen anything like it," said Michelle Guevin, who spoke from a Brattleboro restaurant after leaving her home in nearby Newfane. She said the fast-moving Rock River was washing out the road to her house.

Green Mountain Power decided against flooding Montpelier, the capital, to save the earthen Marshfield Dam, about 20 miles up the Winooski River to the northeast. Water levels had stabilized Monday morning but engineers were continuing to monitor the situation, said spokeswoman Dorothy Schnure.

Residents of 350 households were asked to leave as a precaution.

Nearly 5 million homes and businesses lost power at some point during the storm. Lights started to come back on for many on Sunday, though it was expected to take days for electricity to be fully restored.

Only about 50,000 power customers in New York City went dark, but people there had something else to worry about: getting to work Monday.

The metropolitan area's transit system, shut down because of weather for the first time in its history, was taking many hours to get back on line. Limited bus service began Sunday and New York subway service was partially restored at 6 a.m. Monday.

Commuter rail service to Long Island and New Jersey was being partially restored, but the Metro-North Railroad to Westchester County and Connecticut was suspended because of flooding and mudslides.

Riders were warned to expect long lines and long waits, but early commuters reported empty subways and quick rides.

Mentor Vargas, 54, said he made his 40-minute trip on the J train without incident. "It seems people aren't going to work today," he said on his way to work at a repair company in Queens.

Airports in New York and around the Northeast were reopening to a backlog of hundreds of thousands of passengers whose flights were canceled over the weekend.

Some of New York's yellow cabs were up to their wheel wells in water, and water rushed over a marina near the New York Mercantile Exchange, where gold and oil are traded. But the New York flooding was not extensive from Irene, whose eye passed over Coney Island and Central Park.

The New York Stock Exchange said it would be open for business on Monday, and the Sept. 11 memorial at the World Trade Center site didn't lose a single tree.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg defended his decision to order 370,000 residents to evacuate their homes in low-lying areas, saying it was impossible to know just how powerful the storm would be. "We were just unwilling to risk the life of a single New Yorker," he said.

Irene had at one time been a major hurricane, with winds higher than 110 mph as it headed toward the U.S. It was a tropical storm with 65 mph winds by the time it hit New York. It lost the characteristics of a tropical storm and had slowed to 50 mph by the time it reached Canada.

Chris Fogarty, director of the Canadian Hurricane Centre, warned of flooding and wind damage in eastern Canada and said the heaviest rainfall was expected in Quebec, where about 250,000 homes were without power.

At least 24 people died in the U.S., most of them when trees crashed through roofs or onto cars. One Vermont woman was swept away and feared drowned in the Deerfield River.

Officials worked to repair hundreds of damaged roads, and power companies picked through uprooted trees and reconnected lines.

One private estimate put damage along the coast at $7 billion, far from any record for a natural disaster.

Twenty homes on Long Island Sound in Connecticut were destroyed by churning surf. The torrential rain chased hundreds of people in upstate New York from their homes and closed 137 miles of the state's main highway.

Authorities in and around Easton, Pa., kept a close eye on the rising Delaware River. The National Weather Service forecast the river to crest there at more than 27 feet, about 5 feet above flood stage.

In the South, authorities still were not sure how much damage had been done but expressed relief that it wasn't worse.

"Thank God it weakened a little bit," said Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, who toured a hard-hit Richmond neighborhood where large, old-growth trees uprooted and crushed houses and automobiles.

In Norfolk, Va., where storm surges got within inches of breaking a record, most of the water had receded by Sunday. There was isolated flooding and downed trees, but nowhere near the damage officials predicted.

"We can't believe a hurricane came through here," city spokeswoman Lori Crouch said.

In North Carolina, where six people were killed, the infrastructure losses included the only road to the seven villages on Hatteras Island.

"Overall, the destruction is not as severe as I was worried it might be, but there is still lots and lots of destruction and people's lives are turned upside down," Gov. Beverly Perdue said in Kill Devil Hills.

In an early estimate, consulting firm Kinetic Analysis Corp. figured total losses from the storm at $7 billion, with insured losses of $2 billion to $3 billion. The storm will take a bite out of Labor Day tourist business from the Outer Banks to the Jersey Shore to Cape Cod.

Irene was the first hurricane to make landfall in the continental United States since 2008, and came almost six years to the day after Katrina ravaged New Orleans on Aug. 29, 2005.

Gram reported from Montpelier. Contributing to this report were Associated Press writers Beth Fouhy, Samantha Bomkamp, Verena Dobnik, Jonathan Fahey, Tom Hays, Colleen Long and Larry Neumeister in New York; Brock Vergakis in Virginia Beach, Va.; Marc Levy in Chester, Pa. and Jeff McMillan in Philadelphia; and Seth Borenstein and Christopher S. Rugaber in Washington.

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With iTunes In The Cloud, Apple Under-Promises And Over-Delivers

As the summer winds down and we near the fall, we know two things are for sure about to enter existence in the world of Apple: iOS 5 and iCloud. Given that both offer third-party developers various opportunities, both are in the process of being tested by that community. And that means things are starting to leak out. Tonight brought perhaps the biggest surprise?revelation?yet: iTunes in the Cloud will support streaming as well as downloading of music. Now, before everyone works themselves into a tizzy yelling "FIRST!!!", yes, it's true that other music services have offered cloud-based streaming before ? notably both Google Music Beta and Amazon Cloud Player this past summer. But neither of those is iTunes, the largest music retailer on the planet (online or "offline"). And there are plenty of other services that are streaming-only. It now seems certain that this fall, iTunes will offer both cloud downloading and cloud streaming.

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Does My Home Insurance Cover Me For Flood Damages?

D??? M? Home Insurance Cover M? F?r Flood D?m?g?????

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Flooding ??n happen ?t ?n? moment ?nd f?r ?n? reason. Mother Nature ??n r?n h?r course ?nd ?r??t? flood conditions ?r a water main m?? br??k. At ?n? rate, n? matter h?w ?t happens, ?f ??? experience flooding within ???r home ?t ?? stressful, worrisome, ?nd hard t? deal w?th. At th? same time, ??? h??? th? q???t??n ?? flood d?m?g? covered b? m? home insurance?

Th? one thing ??? want t? understand ?? th?t ?n m??t cases, flooding ?? n?t covered ?n general home insurance. Y?? m?? see clauses th?t state water d?m?g?, b?t essentially, flooding b? acts ?f God ?r manmade items ?r? n?t covered. It ?? truly very ?m??rt?nt t? understand ???r policy ?nd discuss options w?th ???r insurance agent t? b? sure th?t ??? h??? th? coverage ??? need.

Far t?? ?ft?n, many people g? through thinking th?? h??? wh?t th?? need, regardless ?f th? circumstances. H?w???r, ?? w?th many instances within th? last few years, people find out, th? hard way, th?t th?? ?n fact d?d n?t h??? coverage f?r flood d?m?g?. M??t insurance companies offer flood coverage, ?n fact ?ll ?f th?m offer ?t, h?w???r, ?t ?? ?n additional policy, ?n additional source ?f coverage th?t w?ll increase ???r premium.

It ?? ?m??rt?nt t? talk w?th ???r insurance agent ?nd discuss flood coverage. Y?? m?ght th?nk th?t ??? live ?n a relatively safe area, free ?f major flooding, h?w???r, ??? ??nn?t control Mother Nature ?r events th?t happen outside ?f ???r home. Having ???r home fully protected ?? th? ?nl? sure way t? feel comfortable ?nd h??? peace ?f mind ?f th? event d??? occur.

Flooding causes ?ll kinds ?f d?m?g?. Y?? h??? t? deal w?th contamination, mould, sanitation, water d?m?g? t? property ?nd content rotting, ?nd ?? much more. Wh?l? flooding itself ??n b? hectic, ?f th? work ?? n?t performed properly, ?t ??n cause a gr??t deal ?f tr??bl? f?r ??? ?n th? future ?? well.

In ?th?r words, t? really know ?f ???r home insurance covers th?? type ?f d?m?g?, ??? want t? contact ???r insurance agent. Talk w?th h?m ?r h?r ?nd ??k th?m ?f flooding ?? included ?n ???r coverage. Unless ??? specifically ??k?d f?r ?t ?nd ?t ?? a ??rt ?f ???r premium th?t ??? pay each month, ?t ?? highly l?k?l? th?t ??? ?r? n?t covered.

If ??? ?r? n?t covered, talk w?th ???r agent ?b??t coverage. A?k wh?t ?? included, wh?t ?? n?t, ?nd h?w much ?t w?ll add t? ???r premium. Flood d?m?g? coverage ?? one ?f th? many things ??? w?ll need t? fully protect ???r home ?nd ???r belongings. It gives ??? added peace ?f mind, knowing th?t ?f a flood d??? occur, ??? ?r? protected ?nd h??? th? means t? cover th? cost ?f repairs, drying, ?nd replacement ?f need b?.

D??? ???r home insurance cover flood d?m?g?? Call ???r agent today ?nd find out, ?f n?t, m?k? sure ??? add ?t, ???t t? b? ?n th? safe side.

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Derek Rogers ?? a freelance writer wh? represents a number ?f UK businesses. F?r Loss Assessors ?nd Domestic Flood Insurance claim services, h? recommends Morgan Clark.

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Officials: Suicide attack in Algeria kills 10

ALGIERS, Algeria?? Security officials say a suicide attack at a military academy west of the Algerian capital has killed at least 10 people.

A car loaded with explosives was driven toward the academy in Cherchel, 180 kilometers (112 miles) west of Algiers Friday night. Officials said several people were wounded and killed in the explosion, but gave conflicting tolls. They said that at least 10 were dead, however.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity, citing policy.

Friday was a sacred day in the Muslim calendar that falls toward the end of the holy month of Ramadan, and it is often accompanied by attacks. Algeria, which has fought Islamist extremists for years, has seen a marked increas in attacks in recent months. Many are blamed on al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb.

Copyright 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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UK painkiller recalled due to suspected sabotage (AP)

LONDON ? The British company that makes Nurofen Plus painkillers recalled the tablets Friday because of suspected sabotage involving the use of drugs used to treat psychosis.

The Reckitt Benckiser company said there have been five reported cases of other manufacturers' medicines found in boxes of Nurofen Plus.

"Sabotage is suspected and we are working with the police on a formal investigation to find the person or persons responsible," the company said in a statement.

Consumers are being urged to return any packs of the painkiller to a pharmacy, said Dr. Aomesh Bhatt, Medical Director of Nurofen Plus.

Distribution has been halted after some of the tablets were found to contain a drug often used to treat psychosis and schizophrenia.

"We are taking this matter extremely seriously and have decided to recall all packs of Nurofen Plus as the most prudent course of action in the current circumstances," Bhatt said.

The company said the recall is limited to U.K. supplies of the medication.

In a statement on Thursday, Britain's medicines regulator issued a warning about the drug. The agency said it received reports of the prescription drug Seroquel found in packages meant to contain Nurofen Plus, a codeine-containing painkiller. It had no details on how the mistake might have happened.

Experts said a single dose of Seroquel taken by healthy people would likely have little effect other than making them tired.

But they warned people taking other medications or with major health problems should consult a pharmacist or doctor if they accidentally took the anti-psychotic.

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Selecting a Theme - Scrapbooking - Families.com

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My neighbor recently completed a 30-page scrapbook titled: "Recipes and Memories." It features a slew of family recipes handed down from generation to generation. The layouts also include personal stories that detail why the dishes became family favorites.

The book looks amazing. There is no doubt that she spent an incredible amount of time crafting it. In fact, she revealed that it took her a lot longer to put together than she had anticipated because she had to interview fellow family members in order to get the recipes and the stories behind the dishes.

When I asked her what theme she is planning to tackle in September, she looked at me with a pained expression. Turns out my neighbor is planning to take a month off from scrapbooking before shifting into high gear to create holiday memory albums.

Personally, I don't think she'll make it that long.

My neighbor is an extreme scrapper who can't go a single day without creating a layout. She just needs to find the right theme. I suggested she craft a book dedicated to her love of scrapping. After all, she has a passion for the hobby that rivals Rosie O'Donnell.

She could include journaling blocks that reveal how scrapbooking has changed her life and how many times during the course of a day she thinks about potential layouts. I know for a fact that it is in excess of 10 times a day because she tells me when she comes up with a new page title while grocery shopping or driving from home to church.

"A true scrapbook addict is one who stages photographs to match paper she likes." I lifted that quote from an actual scrapbook about scrapbooking. It illustrates the lengths that some scrappers are willing to go to follow their passion. If you are an extreme scrapper I would suggest communicating this devout love for the craft through page titles, photo selections and embellishments.

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With Planned Parenthood under attack in this country and the abortion debate at an ultimate high in our community, a new study conducted by the Guttmacher Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to sexual and reproductive health, underscores the need for better family planning and contraception education.

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Researchers found that while across the board, unplanned pregnancies have remained steady; they have increased dramatically among women of color and low-income women. According to HealthDay, researchers found the following:

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In 2006, 49 percent of the 6.7 million pregnancies in the United States were unintended, and 43 percent of those unintended pregnancies ended in abortion. However, the rate of unplanned pregnancy among women ages 15 to 44 with incomes below the federal poverty line increased from 88 per 1,000 in 1994, to 120 in 2001 and 132 in 2006 ? a 50 percent rise.

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At the same time, the rate among better-off women ? those with incomes at or above 200 percent of the poverty line ? fell from 34 per 1,000 in 1994, to 28 in 2001 and 24 in 2006, a 29 percent decrease.

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The increase in unintended pregnancies among poor women is associated with rising rates of abortions (52 per 1,000) and unplanned births (66 per 1,000) among those women, the study found.

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Along with poor women, higher rates of unintended pregnancies also occur among women ages 18 to 24, minority women and cohabitating women, the Guttmacher report found. Lower rates occurred among higher-income women, white women, college graduates and married women.

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An interesting finding was that being married did not solve these issues or help women control their fertility better. According to the study?s authors, ?Poor women who are married have unintended pregnancy rates more than twice as high as those of higher-income women who are unmarried or cohabiting.?

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In the early ?80s to the mid ?90s, there was a steep decline and even stalled for?five years, but this study, which used government data from 2006, shows a trend in the opposite direction.

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Earlier this month, BET.com reporter Cord Jefferson wrote about why the federal government?s decision to make birth control free is good for Black women. He wrote:

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For years now African-American women have been excluded from getting really important sexual health services. In a piece from summer 2008, the Guttmacher Institute, the nonprofit research organization dedicated to sexual and reproductive policy, noted, ?Black women?s unintended pregnancy rates are the highest of all. These higher unintended pregnancy rates reflect the particular difficulties that many women in minority communities face in accessing high-quality contraceptive services and in using their chosen method of birth control consistently and effectively over long periods of time.?

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In a survey cited on the Huffington Post, 51 percent of African-American women aged 18 to 34 reported having trouble purchasing and consistently using birth control due to its high cost. And because birth control is expensive, many Black low-income women are forced to forego it, choosing instead to have risky unprotected sex. As the Guttmacher Institute notes, that can lead not only to illnesses, but also to plenty of unwanted pregnancies, and thus abortions.

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And while I understand that there is a tension between our community and the reproductive health movement, better access to birth control and adhering to those contraceptives is crucial for us.

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The Advantages of Penny Stock Investing | Dividend Paying Stocks

When someone mentions penny stocks, the very term implies cheapness and low returns. Yet with a little knowledge, research, commonsense and luck, penny stocks can be a profitable purchase for investors old and new. What exactly are penny stocks anyway? The most basic definition is any stock trading for five dollars or less. Unlike stocks traded on the so-called major markets (NYSE, AMEX, or NASDAQ) these types of stocks are traded ?over the counter? using quotation services such as the ?Pink Sheets? and the OTC Bulletin Board.

Because of their low prices, these stocks offer promising, yet less risky opportunities for first time investors. For those who are new to the market, the low prices of penny stocks provide a safer way for the less experienced to learn the market and make their beginner mistakes without risking large sums of money. One of the advantages of these stocks are that even if one makes a bad investment, the low price means the potential for substantial losses are limited.

Each of the stock exchange markets list penny stocks, which makes them easy to find and easy to track. Unlike some investment options, there is nothing complicated about buying these stocks because they are sold as common shares. Yet despite their low cost, low risk and easy availability, they can sometimes give surprisingly high returns on your investment. The businesses behind these stocks are often newer start-up companies, so if they take off they can grow with amazing speed in a manner seldom seen by older, more established firms. While naturally this doesn?t happen to every stock, when it does the chances to make solid profits can be exceptional, with significant price increases occurring often within a short time.

On the other hand, what goes up can also go down, and these are no exception. Picking the winners can be as challenging in these stocks as it is in any other financial investment. But risks can be minimized by making penny stocks only a part of a diverse investment portfolio, and because of their low prices, chances for major losses are not as much a concern as they are with the major stocks. As always it helps to do a little research before buying, and local magazines, newspapers and business blogs can contain information on firms that can help to identify the promising up and comers. Also never underestimate the value of a hot tip!

So with low prices, easy availability, reasonable risk and high potential earnings, the advantages of stocks are many. That is why so many investors make penny stocks an important part of their overall investment strategy.

Joann Carlisle is a writer who looks forward to sharing her knowledge and advice with readers. For more on penny stocks, Financial Planning and Investments offers readers tips for penny stock investing.

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Weak vs Strong Currency ? Acquesto's perspective on trading and ...

August 23, 2011 by acquestoadmin

Currency is about the relative weakness or strength when compared to others at any given moment. It?s not an absolute value. In reality neither weakness nor strength is better or worse. Strong Currency is usually from a highly industrialized country however it is not very true is case of Burma/Myanmar currency Kyat.

Weak Currency [currently weak US$ compared to strong Japanese Yen as of August 2011]

1. Good for nations which have a larger share of export than imports making up their GDP. Their exports become more competitive but at the same time their imports become more expensive.
2. Having a weaker relative currency encourages more nations to buy their goods more affordable to overseas purchasers.
3. Weaken their purchasing power drops.
4. A weak currency is bad if you are planning to travel to areas with a strong currency or purchase items made in an area with a strong currency
5. A weak currency will however stimulate manufacturing and export to areas with stronger currency

Actually, the factors influencing on the currency is very complex because of so many factors involved.

Factors Contributing to a Weak Currency

1. Lower interest rates in home country than abroad.
2. Higher rates of inflation (inflation rate of US 4% vs. Japan 1.8%).
3. A domestic trade deficit relative to other countries (too high deficit likes US).
4. A consistent government surplus.
5. Political or economic uncertainty within the country with the Weak currency.
6. A collapsing domestic financial market (likes US and European).
7. Weak domestic economy/stronger foreign economies (corporate and industry moving outside US).
8. Frequent or recent default on government debt (near default and credit downgrade likes US).
9. Monetary policy that frequently changes objectives.
10. Able to growth in Equity market such as Dow.
11. Real Estate Industry may be probably doomed or boomed by Foreign Investors such as in Florida.

Strong Currency [currently strong Japanese Yen compared to weak US$ as of August 2011]

1. Good for nations which rely more heavily on imports than exports. Their exports become less competitive so they export less. This could result in a decline in the balance of payments and a weakening of the currency.
2. It hurts domestic manufacturing both intended for the domestic market and for export.
3. A strong currency has a higher purchasing power in the international market than a weaker currency.

Factors Contributing to a Strong Currency

1. Higher interest rates in home country than aboard. (Not true for Japan however 12% to 17% in Burma/Myanmar)
2. Lower rates of inflation. (inflation rate of Japan 1.8% vs. US 4% ).
3. A domestic trade surplus relative to other countries.
4. A large, consistent government deficit crowding out domestic borrowing.
5. Political or economic certainty within the country with the Strong currency.
6. A strong domestic financial market.
7. Strong domestic economy/weaker foreign economies.
8. No record of default on government debt.
9. Sound monetary policy aimed at price stability.
10. Unable to growth in Equity market such as Nikkei.
12. Real Estate Industry can be depressed or burst.

[Ref: http://www.cbsnews.com/2316-100_162-4038125-6.html ]

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Run Time: 2 hr. 10 min.
Theatrical Release Date: May 6th, 2011 (wide)
Status: In Theaters
Distributor(s): Paramount Pictures
Director(s): Kenneth Branagh
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Business Highlight ? Blog Archive ? Change Management System to ...

August 21, 2011, 10:22 pm

Change management is a process in most corporate which strives to make the employees more powerful by bringing about profitable changes with new ideas and strategies for future success. This usually begins with a well thought out analysis of the present way of working to find out the need for change as well as potential for the change. This process usually includes creative strategy for marketing to be able to target the clients, the leadership styles and group dynamics.

This management uses the performance of the employees in regard to their financial results, their operational efficiency, leadership qualities and the efficient way in which they communicate. It focuses on the need for change and puts forward techniques which may help to solve the problems of failure in projects. In project management,change management refers to a project management process where the changes made in it are cleared after its introductions.

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Project Portfolio Management is the process used by project managers and project management to explain the method of evaluating the current or future projects. Main aim of portfolio management is to succeed by mixing and categorizing the projects which have been proposed. To achieve it, hard economic measures, different business tactic are taken by the corporate.

There are different types of organizational change, mainly:

Operational change

Strategic change

Missionary change

Technical change

Monitoring the behavior and attitude of the employees

It is important to note that any change which is proposed has to be cleared by the Change Advisory Board. This board is made up of people from the same organization but who have different functions.

To be successful in management, many things have to be monitored, like risks, dependencies, costs, return on investments and issues if any which is affecting the progress of the work. The communication with the stake holders should be respected and all the changes made have to get their approval.

The training given to the employees should be effective and they should be given proper counseling too. Any resistance from them has to be dealt with in such a way as to bring them in line with the organization strategy.

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