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Officials at NASN, now run by the Disney-owned U.S. sports boss ESPN--which bought the independent European channel from Irish broadcaster Setanta Sports and venture-capital group Benchmark Capital Europe in 2006 for a reported $120 million--say their goal is to reach 100 million households in Europe, surpassing espn's 93 million subscribers in the U.S. The last person to call such an ambitious shot may have been Babe Ruth, but NASN executives say they've tapped into a growing demographic of European sports fans who no longer consider American baseball, football, college basketball or even NASCAR exotic...
...million-dollar view is also a reminder that these are boom times for women's magazines. "They are doing much better than the magazine business overall," says Edward Atorino, a managing director at Benchmark, a brokerage firm in New York City. "Everybody thinks the Internet is the only place where things are happening, but the women's magazine field is not getting the attention that it deserves." Ad revenues in Black's division, a unit of Hearst Corp., have tripled since she took over, soaring to $2.5 billion in 2006, from $841 million in 1996. The magazines are being...
...sophisticated, shadowy investment vehicles in all of 2006. Most hedge-fund managers were enjoying solid returns: the industry averaged a 7.37% gain through the first seven months of the year, according to Hedge Fund Research (HFR), a Chicago research firm. That was nearly double the performance of the benchmark S&P 500 index, which returned 3.84% over the same period...
...particularly discomfiting thought right now, when the word bubble is being bandied about to describe emerging markets. Stock markets from Mumbai to Shanghai have been hitting record highs with giddy regularity recently, in spite of dangers such as the murky outlook for the U.S. economy. The CSI 300, a benchmark index for China stocks, has nearly quadrupled in the past year, while India's Sensex index is up 35% since January. Even Nigeria's stock market, a relative newcomer to the radar screen of global investors, has jumped almost 60% in 2007. (The value of stocks listed in Nigeria...
...test’s limitations, but also encourage the development of more reliable and more equitable methods of evaluation. In the current admissions system, however, standardized tests will continue to serve a useful role for many colleges. Scores, although limited in their predictive power, still provide a nationally standardized benchmark against which admissions officers may quickly garner a rough idea of an applicant’s comparative academic ability. As long as admissions committees are aware of the test’s limitations and interpret scores with the applicant’s socioeconomic background in mind, considering test scores...