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...Gates really control the Internet? For a variety of reasons-some structural, some cultural-that may not be as easy as it seems. "Microsoft would have a better chance at controlling the weather," says Brad Templeton, president of ClariNet, which makes a nice profit selling news wire services to Internet users. The Internet, he explains, has no central network operating system that Microsoft can patent and control. Moreover, the Internet is devoted to open-that is to say, nonproprietary-software systems. A week after the Internet community discovered that the gif (Graphics Interchange Format) system used to exchange pictures over...
Could Mexican stocks go lower? John Templeton says they could. The founder of the Templeton Funds has retired after 40 years in the business, and he was investing globally long before his peers even gave it a thought. So he has seen a lot of market drops, but he can recall only one case in which the prices bottomed out in the first week. That was in the U.S. -- after Black Monday, Oct. 19, 1987. The dean of foreign investing wouldn't be surprised if the Mexican Bolsa heads lower before it heads higher...
That it will head higher eventually he doesn't doubt. Right now, a lot of people are nervous about the high inflation that often follows a currency devaluation. But Templeton reminds us that not all Mexican companies will be hurt if the government fails in its attempt to restrain prices. Even if a company's costs go up, it can in turn raise the price of whatever it's selling and still make its usual profit...
...wonder, then, that the Mexican analyst for the Templeton Funds, Ed Ramos, has put out a buy recommendation on several Mexican companies that he thinks are already irresistibly cheap, including Tel-Mex, the big phone company that's in so many portfolios...
...present there are four China mutual funds trading on the N.Y.S.E.: China, Greater China, Jardine Fleming China and Templeton. The most interesting thing about them is how they've avoided investing in Chinese stocks. Not one of the six China issues listed on the N.Y.S.E. makes the list of the top 25 holdings of any of the four China funds. That tells you something. So far the funds have preferred to buy Hong Kong companies that do business in China but don't live there...