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...business would overwhelm bankers, who'd no longer have a reason to drop rates aggressively. Already there's evidence that bankers are getting their fill. Since June, the decline in mortgage rates has not kept pace with the decline in the 10-year Treasury-bond yield, their benchmark...
...League title. However, with her husband Jay bringing home his first Ivy League title as the Harvard wrestling coach last year, and with her bounty of young talent and skilled position players, Coach Weiss has plenty of motivation and the means with which to acheive this benchmark...
...surprisingly, health-care companies have been the early adopters of work-force lactation programs. Cigna's Working Well Moms program is considered a benchmark. It offers moms-to-be consultation with a professional breast-feeding expert, known as a lactation consultant, before and after they give birth. When the new mom returns to the bosom of corporate life, Cigna provides access to a private room with a hospital-grade pump, a carrying case to discreetly transport the pumping paraphernalia and expressed milk, plus bottles and access to a refrigerator...
...damned prophetic. During campaigning for parliamentary elections in July, the Japanese Prime Minister won over voters by giving them bad news, straight-up: the country's ailing economy would get a lot worse before it got better. Well, last week lived up to Koizumi's predictions, in spades. The benchmark stock market index sank to its lowest level in 17 years, new numbers showed that industrial output and retail sales are slowing more dramatically than expected and, in the unkindest cut of all, credit rating agency Moody's said it might downgrade Japanese government bonds to the same level...
...Meanwhile, Asian markets spent the night jabbing at the panic button. Japan?s Nikkei and Hong Kong?s Hang Seng indexes both slid below its 10,000 level - and that was with innumerable stocks bumping against government-imposed curbs. South Korea's market took the heaviest hit, with the benchmark Kospi sinking 12 percent. Markets in Australia and New Zealand both lost just over 4 percent. Singapore ended down 7.4 percent...