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...conference featured addresses by the CEOs of Oracle, IBM, Sun and America Online, as well as by Microsoft Executive Vice President Steven A. Ballmer '77, and Esther Dyson '71, a leading computer analyst and former Crimson executive...
Credit risk is the problem that American banks are facing. Buried deep within the arcane bank statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission is evidence of a potential chain reaction of derivatives heading toward an explosion. "I've been an analyst for almost 20 years now," says Charles Peabody, of Mitchell Securities, a brokerage firm in New York City. "Analysts like myself are learning for the first time how derivatives behave in bad times. I think we've just seen the tip of the iceberg of the problems with derivatives...
When times get tough, these types of financial instruments are the first to default. "Companies do not view a default on derivatives as face losing," says Tanya Azarchs, a bank analyst with Standard & Poor's. "You can always say you didn't understand the derivative or the bank tricked you or whatever. Customers of derivatives just don't take it as seriously as a loan...
...business travelers tighten their belts, the hospitality industry feels the pain. Hotel-occupancy rates declined across almost all of Asia last year, according to a report by hotel-industry analyst PKF Consulting in Hong Kong. Asian airlines are struggling through their first serious slump since the industry took off in the 1970s. They are laying off staff members, canceling routes and airplane orders, and cutting back on in-flight food and beverage services. Even in economically buoyant China, the going is no longer as good as it was. The Middle Kingdom relies heavily on Southeast Asian foreign investment, and industry...
...fast service doesn't happen "if your consumers aren't asking for it," says John Pike, an intelligence analyst at the Federation of American Scientists. With the Administration convinced that India had no plans to explode a nuclear device, the satellites were snapping photos of Pokhran only once every six to 24 hours. Indian scientists, who knew the satellites' schedule, concealed their preparations so the photos CIA analysts scanned in the weeks before Monday's blasts showed what appeared to be routine maintenance...