This strategic momentum has carried into 2012, as the recent WTO agreement with China, highlighting IMAX, should enhance programming flexibility in our biggest international market, and we have also made early progress toward igniting network growthin Latin America and Europe.
Economists say markets will judge the data released Friday as an indication of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's progressin firing up growthin the world's third-largest economy with economic stimulus and a more aggressive central bank.