INDIA Cinema News, Aug 19, 2011

Movie Review: Conan the Barbarian CinemaNerdz.com Even Marique gets the shaft in the end…with all the talk of her being a witch with growing powers, she uses them appropriately once and then forgets she has them for the rest of the movie. Then there's an action scene that exists solely to get rid of ... See all stories on this topic »

One Day: Meet the New Notebook Television Without Pity by Ethan Alter August 19, 2011 6:00 AM For several years now, The Notebook has been the movie of choice for viewers in the mood for a cheesy, contrived and completely addictive glossy romantic melodrama. Well, move over Ryan and Rachel, because here ... See all stories on this topic » Television Without Pity

I love playing the bad guy: Daniel Balaji Times of India Daniel Balaji, the versatile Tamil actor, was in Kochi recently for the pooja of his forthcoming movie'Crime Story'. Directed by Anil Thomas, he plays a cop in the movie. "Cinematographer Kamal is my friend and when he asked me to do a role in the ... See all stories on this topic »

No tiff between Kareena, Katrina: Siddique IBNLive.com Mumbai: With the Salman Khan-starrer Bodyguard, South film director Siddique makes his foray into Hindi cinema. The director and his films that make coffee table conversation in every South Indian movie buff's living room, Siddique is sighing in relief ... See all stories on this topic »

Rima Kallungal is glad Times of India After issues with Association of Malayalam Movie Artistes (AMMA), who expelled Thilakan from Mollywood, he is now making a comeback with Ranjith's Indian Rupee. "Thilakan is one of the bestactors Malayalam cinema has ever seen. ... See all stories on this topic »

Not A Love Story Filmfare The movie picks up and how. Although RGV could have spent less time establishing the story as it's well known to most Indians. The first half is boring and could have been about 15 minutes shorter. It is only after Ashish is murdered does the movie ... See all stories on this topic » Filmfare

Abhay: DELHI BELLY was the film that broke the myth GlamSham ... say anymore that English films with Bollywood actors do not do well in India. DELHI BELLY is now a prime example of this myth being broken," says Abhay who has traditionally opted for unconventional cinema, whether it is DEV D, OYE LUCKY LUCKY OYE, ... See all stories on this topic »

Feldman @ the flicks Artslink.co.za News (press release) Keith Carradine “Cowboys and Indians” were once a dominant force in Westernmovies, but now through an imaginative twist, the traditional Western has gone sci-fi. It a ridiculous premise to contemplate, but director Jon Favreau and his stellar cast ... See all stories on this topic » Artslink.co.za News (press release)

CHATUR SINGH TWO STAR hits 449 digital theatres GlamSham "Recent films like DOUBLE DHAMAAL, READY, AARAKASHAN and SINGHAM have done well in single screens as well as in multiplexes thanks to digital theatres. As an actor and a producer, it makes me very happy and it is good for the industry if digital cinema ... See all stories on this topic »

Star-studded premiere for SPY KIDS 4 GlamSham PVR Pictures hosted a grand premiere of Spy Kids 4, India's first 4D movie that can be 'smelled', in Mumbai on Wednesday. It was a fun-filled premiere attended by a lot of celebrities such as actor Hrithik Roshan's wife Suzanne, who walked the red ... See all stories on this topic » GlamSham

Freida Pinto to star in film based on Thomas Hardy's novel Business of Cinema Mumbai: Slumdog Millionaire actress Freida Pinto is all set to star in Trishna, a movie adaptation of Thomas Hardy's novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles. While the original novel was set in the British countryside but the adaptation will have an Indian ... See all stories on this topic »

Azhagarsamiyin Kuthirai at 36th Toronto International Film ... By Latest Tamil Cinema News ... news in tamil Tamil Movies News Latest Tamil Movies News Latest Movies News in Tamil Tamilmovie news Tamil cinema news Tamil movies Tamil movie Tamil cinema Kollywood Tamil news Tamil songs download Tamil movies download Tamil actors ... Notably Azhagarsamiyin Kudhirai is the only South Indian film that made it to the film festival this year! ASK screening at the Contemporary WorldCinema category is a special one as only the best films from all over the world will ... Latest Tamil Cinema News - Tamiltinse...

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FINANCIAL News, Money, Banks, Economic and Financial Crisis, Aug 19, 2011 (2)

GLOBAL MARKETS-Gold sets record high, global stocks slip anew Reuters "What I'm seeing right now is a basically a crisis of confidence, moreso than an economic crisis orfinancial crisis necessarily at this stage," said Natalie Trunow, chief investment officer of equities at Calvert Investment Management in Bethesda, ... See all stories on this topic »

As double dip looms, market fears turn on feeble banks FRANCE 24 Yet, while politicians are rapidly running out of options, Antonin says they could still offer banks some respite by reforming the financial markets. “Ultimately, nothing can justify a bank like Société Générale losing 15% in one day,” she said. ... See all stories on this topic » FRANCE 24

Markets plunge again in crisis of confidence ABC Online MARK COLVIN: Stability had returned to financial markets this week, or so it seemed. But worries about a global recession and European debt re-emerged and global share markets plummeted again. The worst damage was seen in Europe, where the German ... See all stories on this topic »

Why China keeps increasing US debt holdings People's Daily Online Therefore, when it is possible that a global or local financial crisis will break out, the fast-flowing "hot money" of between 16 trillion and 17 trillion US dollars will flow to the strongest currencies or national debts. The most important standards ... See all stories on this topic »

Here we go again: Stocks plunge on economic fear BusinessWeek But the risk of further stoking inflation may keep it from taking additional steps, such as an additional round of massive bond-buying. US companies are in better financial shape than they were heading into the 2008 financial crisis, but investors may ... See all stories on this topic »

Shelter from the storm The Standard The global economy is in turmoil. The euro zone lurches from one debt crisis to another, the world's largest economy - the United States - loses an AAA rating, Japan remains subdued and China, seen as a panacea to many of the world's economic ills,... See all stories on this topic » The Standard

Treasury Yields Fall to Historic Lows as Stocks Plunge Wall Street Journal Some worry that the US risks repeating that episode, which also followed a real-estate bust and financial crisis similar to that seen in the US in 2008. At first glance, the action of bond markets in the US looks increasingly Japanese. ... See all stories on this topic » Wall Street Journal

High gold prices are sustainable Euromoney Magazine “The health of the financial system and government finances, interest rates and inflation are thus paramount to the outlook,” says Wills. “Will governments be able to sustainably serve the debt hangover from post-credit crisis stimulus? Do banks have ... See all stories on this topic »

Small investors fleeing stock market msnbc.com For many investors, fears are fresh of the stock market collapse that followed the 2008 financialmeltdown, when the Dow fell more than 30 percent in less than six months. With Europe's banksbracing for fallout from the euro zone's debt crisis, ... See all stories on this topic »

Profitably Surmounting Plutocratic Perfidy Gold Seek In light of these considerations it is not surprising that the Mega-Banks were the first to be Saved in the 2008 financial crisis. That is, a Major Negative Consequence of the Fall, 2008 Market Crash was a Taxpayer-Funded Financial bailout of several ... See all stories on this topic »

10 questions investors should ask to beat the market storm and profit from a ... This is Money In another famous investing take of recent years, UK hedge fund manager Crispin Odey went short onbank shares and took a punt on them falling heavily as the financial crisis hit, before then adopting the opposite strategy and betting on them rising as ... See all stories on this topic »

What are Murdoch's American misdeeds? Salon In the US, S&P (along with rivals Fitch and Moody's) were "key enablers of the [2008]financial meltdown," according to Congress's Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission. Deploying an inherently corrupt business model, S&P collected fat fees from ... See all stories on this topic » Salon

BREWIN DOLPHIN HOLDINGS : 2% bond yields or 4% dividend yields? You pays your ... 4-traders (press release) In doing so, it has brought even more into focus the banking crisis that always was and the destabilizing influence of the debt crisis for the financial system as a whole. On top of this theeconomic news has been mixed to disappointing. ... See all stories on this topic »

From insider trading to pension funds: Tips to cover market mania Reynolds Center How can reporters bring home the implications of these major stock market reverses to businesses and individuals, when even the most erudite economists struggle to make sense of this crisis which at its root is a failure of confidence among consumers ... See all stories on this topic » Reynolds Center

Recession moves into view as EU finances, markets reflect trouble ahead Danbury News Times The New York investment bank updated its global economic forecast on Thursday and said the world is one major event away from a recession, but Chieco said the firm doesn't believe that blow will come soon. Still, stocks around the world plunged ... See all stories on this topic »

Newspaper Briefing, including 'US authorities investigate Standard & Poors ... Proactive Investors UK Shares take a battering amid rising fears the bank system is freezing up: European leaders are under increasing pressure to head off a new banking crisis after stock markets plunged amid fears of a 2008-style financial seizure. ... See all stories on this topic »

APCM: Debt ceiling jitters among big events in July Alaskajournal.com The aftermaths of financial crises are painfully long and drawn out periods of deleveraging and slow growth. See Rogoff and Reinhardt's book This Time is Different on the subject. As we go to pressglobal stock markets are selling off on anxiety over ... See all stories on this topic »

HFMWeek Daily Snapshot - 19 August HFMWeek (blog) Bets that global stocks will fall have surged at hedge funds to the highest level since July 2009 as the economic slowdown and European debt crisis spur the biggest losses in almost three years, says BusinessWeek. An index of hedge fund assets from ... See all stories on this topic »

The Overnight Report: Fear Returns International Business Times AU If you want to take the Lehman analogy further, we can reflect on the fact the debt crisis of 2008 merely saw the problem pass from private to public hands, rather than actually being resolved. Back then, the issue was US investment banks owning ... See all stories on this topic »

Special Report Transcripts * August 18, 2011 Fox News (blog) It's become a familiar economic script. Stock losses in Asia and Europe drag Wall Street down on concerns about indebted European governments, paying their bank loans, and fears of a weakglobal recovery. SAM STOVALL, S&P CHIEF INVESTMENT STRATEGIST: ... See all stories on this topic »

Lessons of Asean's past hold the key to prosperity Business Times (subscription) If we can continue to remember the lessons so painfully learned in the late 1990s Asian financial crisis (and being learned in Europe now), I believe Asean can achieve spectacular gains in prosperity in the decades to come. If we forget them, ... See all stories on this topic »

US stocks recover early losses, bucking global dip Palm Beach Post Reports that the French and German economies barely grew in recent months have stoked fears of a global economic slowdown. Traders and bankers are growing increasingly alarmed about the spiraling debt crisis in Europe. The agreement underlying Greece's ... See all stories on this topic » Palm Beach Post

Dexia's Biggest Fall Since 2009 Leads European, US Banks BusinessWeek “Recent policy errors, especially Europe's slow and insufficient response to the sovereign crisis and the drama around lifting the US debt ceiling, have weighed down on financial markets and eroded business and consumer confidence. ... See all stories on this topic »

Stocks Fall 419 Points on Fears of Weak Global Economy Moneynews American banks tumbled, following losses in European financial shares, as Sweden's financialregulator said his country's lenders must do more to prepare for a worsening in Europe's debt crisis. The KBW Bank Index (BKX) of 24 stocks retreated 6 percent ... See all stories on this topic »

European bank stocks hurt by borrowing crunch Modesto Bee Fears tend to feed on themselves, causing more banks to hoard money instead of lending to each other. "Any signs of a funding crisis brings back horrific memories," Pawlak said. "There's this visceral reaction." The EURO STOXX Financials index plunged ... See all stories on this topic »

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