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To: sea_urchin who wrote (22244)	12/29/2004 2:36:01 PM
From: ild	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81011

Hi Searle, what are your current thoughts about the Rand's strength? Export oriented parts of RSA economy must be in real trouble.

To: sea_urchin who wrote (22244)	12/30/2004 11:21:29 AM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81011

>Putin shows the finger -- and his backside And it seems there are others too. story.news.yahoo.com >>The Bush administration's foreign policy may be costing U.S. corporations business overseas--according to a new survey of 8,000 international consumers released this week by the Seattle-based Global Market Insite (GMI) Inc. Brands closely identified with the U.S., such as Marlboro cigarettes, America Online (AOL), McDonald's, American Airlines, and Exxon-Mobil are particularly at risk. GMI, an independent market research company, conducted the survey in eight countries December 10-12 with consumers over the internet. One third of all consumers in Canada, China, France, Germany, Japan, Russia, and the United Kingdom said that U.S. foreign policy, particularly the "war on terror" and the occupation of Iraq, constituted their strongest impression of the United States. Twenty percent of respondents in Europe and Canada said they consciously avoided buying U.S. products as a protest against those policies. That finding was consistent with a similar poll carried out by GMI three weeks after Bush's November election victory. "Unfortunately, current American foreign policy is viewed by international consumers as a significant negative, when it used to be a positive," according to Dr. Mitchell Eggers, GMI's chief operating officer and chief pollster. <<