1. Foreign electronics/entertainment
- Author
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Conry, Christopher T., Hellman, Justin, Siracusano, Luciano, III, and Thorpe, Warren
- Subjects
Canon Inc. -- Finance -- 00147418 ,Carlton Communications PLC -- Finance -- 00144273 ,FUJIFILM Corp. -- Finance -- 00147521 ,Hitachi Ltd. -- Finance -- 00147569 ,Kyocera Corp. -- Finance -- 00147732 ,Panasonic Corp. -- Finance -- 00147768 ,NEC Corp. -- Finance -- 00147851 ,Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. -- Finance -- 00000281 ,Pioneer Electronic Corp. -- Finance -- 00148021 ,Polygram N.V. -- Finance -- 00139894 ,Rank Group Investments Ltd. -- Finance -- 00151443 ,Sony Corp. -- Finance -- 00148132 ,TDK Corp. -- Finance -- 00148192 ,Consumer electronics industry -- Finance ,Business ,Business, general - Abstract
The Asian economic crisis and the stronger Japanese yen have had a negative impact on Japanese exports of consumer electronic goods and on semiconductor prices, as well. Sales of digital versatile disk (DVD) technology, however, have been good and the consumer shift to DVD is expected to be beneficial for the industry in the future. However, these stocks are not timely in 1998 and 1999 and investors need to be selective. more...
- Published
- 1998