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...solution to the refugee problem, which dates to fighting during Israel's 1948 war of independence. With Sharon's comeback, their hopes have been all but destroyed: whatever his promises to make peace, they still see him as "the butcher," the ex-general found by an Israeli report to bear "indirect responsibility" for the massacre of hundreds of Palestinians at Sabra and the neighboring Shatila camp during...
...that doesn't mean investors don't have anything real to worry about. So here comes the bear case. Some big European technology and telecom firms are in serious distress. Last week, just one day after celebrating its listing on the New York Stock Exchange, German electronics giant Siemens announced it would not meet its earlier sales and earnings targets. The firm's Infineon Technologies semiconductor unit was a victim of a global pullback in technology spending, which has sent memory chip prices plummeting. Sweden's Ericsson, owned directly or indirectly by half of that country's population, has announced...
...owned Philip Morris, Duke Energy and Ralston Purina in that period, you made money. Good money. Of course, those stocks killed you the two years before that, so nobody really loaded up with them. Still, it's a mistake to assume that everyone is losing his shirt in this bear market...
...great debate rages as to how the consumer drama will play out. The worry factor is not to be underplayed. Recessions and bear markets are as much about psychology as fundamentals, which is precisely why the stock market--unable to find something it can believe in--has worked up such a sweat. To that extent, the media may be fueling the pessimism. In January, TIME put the worried faces of a family of four on the cover and expounded on HOW TO SURVIVE THE SLUMP. More depressing has been the recent stream of daily headlines about plunging stock prices...
...great honor that I only hope I can live up to. As long as it's reciprocal - I give love, as well as take it back. Until the day this is not there, I can keep going. But it does bear heavily on my shoulders. I had no practice for such a thing...