Quantum Of Solace, the latest James Bond movie, starring Daniel Craig and Olga Kurylenko, has just been released, and is supposed to have more product placements than any of the other James Bond movies. There are many publicly traded companies that have paid to have their product appear in the film and several companies that benefit from the Bond movie. Here are the components of the index:Ford Motor (F) for the Aston Martin, and the Ford Car that Camille drives.Heineken Holding NV (HKHHF.PK) for the beer.Diageo plc (DEO) for the Smirnoff vodka.Swatch Group (SWGNF.PK) for the Omega watch.Singapore Air (SINGF.PK) which owns 49% of Virgin Atlantic.Sony (SNE) Sony Ericsson cell phones, laptop and mobile phones.Coca Cola (KO) Coca-Cola Zero Zero Seven.Activision Blizzard, Inc. (ATVI) Quantum of ...

Last year, I developed the Eva Longoria Stock Index. Since Eva is now appearing on the new Microsoft (MSFT) TV commercials, replacing Jerry Seinfeld, I thought it would be appropriate to update her index for this year. Components of the Eva Longoria Stock Index: Hanes (HBI) celebrity endorsement New York & Company (NWY) celebrity endorsement BEBE (BEBE) SPORT celebrity endorsement Magnum ice cream brand owned by Unilever (UN) - celebrity endorsement Pepsi (PEP) celebrity endorsement Range Rover made by Land Rover, subsidiary of Ford Premier Automotive Group, a division of the Ford Motor Company (F) - celebrity endorsement Starred in Desperate Housewives produced by ABC Television owned by Disney (DIS), also starred in ABC's remake of Dragnet Starred in The ...

Nicole Kidman is the most overpaid actress in Hollywood, according to a recent report by Forbes Magazine.Components of the Nicole Kidman Stock Index: News Corp. (NWS-A) which owns 20th Century Fox, distributor of the movies Australia and Moulon Rouge! in which she won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. Appeared in commercials for SKY Italia is an Italian digital satellite television platform owned by News Corporation. Time Warner (TWX) Warner Brother's which distributed Margot at the Wedding, The Invasion, Happy Feet, in which she did a voiceover, Eyes Wide Shut, Fur, plus the New Line Cinema division's The Golden Compass.Sony (SNE) Columbia Pictures distributed the movies Bewitched and Dogville.Viacom (VIA-B) Paramount Pictures distributed Margot at the Wedding, The Stepford Wives, and The ...

Three top celebrities, Gisele Bündchen, Heidi Klum, and Angelina Jolie, all of which had celebrity stock indexes created by Fred Fuld at Stockerblog.com and implemented a Stockpickr.com, have had their indexes updated and compared to the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The one thing that these three women have in common, other than the fact that they are wealthy, successful celebrities [two supermodels and one movie star who was also a model], is that all three of their indexes have outperformed the Dow over the last six months.Their indexes are based on the companies that they are connected to in some way, such as acting as celebrity spokesperson. Over the last six months, Gisele Bündchen's index was up 1.6%, Heidi Klum's index was down only 0.7%, and Angelina Jolie's index was down 10%, yet all were better than the Dow which was down 10.3%. ...