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...deal movies on pay-per-view television before they are released to theaters -- a heretical idea that was instantly condemned by the show-business establishment, including Blockbuster Entertainment. But within days, < Blockbuster announced its own deal, with IBM, to develop a system of in-store CD manufacture under which CDs would be recorded as customers asked for them -- a heretical idea that was instantly condemned by the music industry. Now Macy's (the 135-year-old department store) has announced its deal with Don Hewitt (the 70-year-old executive producer of 60 Minutes) to create a Macy's home...
...resistance isn't merely visceral. Compared with the crapshoot of producing movies, the unglamorous business of distributing them is virtually a sure thing: for sending out a $1,400 print of Last Jurassic Action Park, studios get $1 from every ticket sold. Manufacturing and shipping CDs, a business that employs tens of thousands of people, is similarly dull and profitable. Still, the moguls aren't Luddites. MCA Music chairman Al Teller, for instance, says MCA will have its own one-at-a-time CD-system prototype 18 months from now. And Sid Ganis, president of marketing and distribution for Sony...
...Blockbuster Entertainment announced a joint venture to develop a new way to deliver CDs; they will be recorded one by one on demand right at the store, eliminating the need for inventory and the possibility of shoplifting...
Much of the money propping up share prices comes from small savers who have put their money into mutual funds simply because returns on alternative investments have got so low. With money-market deposits and CDs barely eking out 2% in interest, individuals poured a record $11.3 billion into stock mutual funds in March, snapping up shares so fast that managers barely had time to invest all the cash. Buyers feasted on all kinds of funds, from those that purchase slow-growth utility stocks to aggressive acquirers of speculative new firms. But the binge failed to satisfy the public...
...stocks? In spite of the danger signs, few Wall Street gurus foresee a sharp downturn anytime soon, as long as interest rates stay low. That's because investors still have plenty of liquid funds left: they hold nearly $3 trillion in low-yielding investments like bank CDs and are likely to continue moving them into stocks. Even if share prices start to tumble, experts say, fund managers and cash-rich individuals will swiftly scoop up bargains and thereby halt the slide before it can erode the market 20% -- the level that indicates a bear market has begun. Last Friday...