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To: Worswick who wrote (3373)	5/5/1998 9:51:00 PM
From: Zeev Hed	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 9980

Worswick, is anyone noticing that Asia is awash in red ink tonight? Not one single uptick. The malaise is back, I believe. Zeev

To: Worswick who wrote (3373)	5/6/1998 4:39:00 AM
From: Thomas Haegin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9980

Worswick, I think that the film business is inherently very tricky and unpredictable. Just seems like the public disagrees with the professional producers and distributor more often than not... Such miscalculations are unknown in Switzerland, but this due to the un-glitzy stuff we try to sell like chocolate, watches and mountains, I guess... Actually talking of watches, the success of the SWATCH was a big surprise to business establishment here. The banks that were asked to participate in the turnaround project drafted by Mr. Hayek were not going along, so Hayek went went out and managed to fund the start of SMH with private money from rich individuals and venture capital firms. The result is that SMH is using their banks rather little these days. Thomas