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Italian film industry rebukes Tarantino (Reuters via Yahoo! News) - The Italian cinema industry is up in arms after recent comments from director Quentin Tarantino, who called the current state of the film industry "depressing."

Airline industry raises profit forecast, but debt weighs (AFP via Yahoo! News) - The world airline industry on Monday raised its profit forecast for this year to five billion dollars, from 3.8 billion dollars, but said the sector was languishing in debt.

Music industry looks for ad answers (BBC News) - Can ad-funded digital downloads save the music industry?

Kendle tops industry survey results (bizjournals.com via Yahoo! Finance) - Kendle International Inc. was the highest-rated clinical research company in a new survey by Thomson CenterWatch, a publishing and information services company focused on the clinical trials industry.

Credit Card 'Piggybacking' Worries Lending Industry (Fox News) - The practice of adding users to other people's credit cards as a short-term solution to boost credit is worrying the lending industry.

Push on for tougher rules on wind industry (MSNBC) - Birds and bats have a powerful advocate in the new Congress, and he is making the wind energy industry nervous.

SIA: Semi Industry Clinging to Modest Growth (SeekingAlpha via Yahoo! Finance) - William Trent submits: The Semiconductor Industry Association [SIA ] released the monthly industry sales report for April, saying: Worldwide sales of semiconductors of $19.9 billion in April were 1.6 percent higher than the $19.6 billion reported for April of 2006, but 2.1 percent lower than the $20.3 billion reported for March 2007, the Semiconductor Industry [... ]

Wind industry advocating tax help, renewable standard (The Hill) - Aided by a tax break that helps keep costs in line with fossil fuels, the wind-energy industry has hummed in recent years, generating annual growth rates of 25 percent or more.

Insurance industry divided over federal regulation (The Hill) - There is a split among insurers over a Senate bill to create a federal insurance regulator, but the opponents of the legislation have some heavy ammunition on their side: two of the industry’s largest political war chests.

Canadian mutual fund industry has its best May since 1996 (Canadian Business) - David Paddon June 4, 2007 - 6:39 p.m. TORONTO (CP) - The Canadian mutual fund industry had its best May since 1996, with an estimated $3.2 billion to $3.7 billion in net sales, says the Investment Funds Institute of Canada.