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...prevailed on a key Senate funding vote in July by 58 to 37, winning over such former Republican critics as RICK SANTORUM of Pennsylvania and Daniel Coats of Indiana. On Friday, Clinton will preside at a White House swearing-in ceremony marking the program's 100,000th member--a benchmark the Peace Corps took more than 20 years to reach...
...another year of 20%-plus investment gains (and having anything to gloat over), along comes a sharp decline in interest rates that has been a boon to interest-paying securities. Bond prices rise as yields fall. And boy, have yields been falling. Just three months ago, the government's benchmark 30-year Treasury bond carried a yield of 5.72%. Last week it was as low as 4.72% before drifting up to 5.12% on Friday. Amid tumbling rates, the average, boring government-bond mutual fund rose 4.6% in the third quarter--a period in which stock funds fell an average...
...prevailed on a key Senate funding vote in July by 58 to 37, winning over such former Republican critics as Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania and Daniel Coats of Indiana. On Friday, Clinton will preside at a White House swearing-in ceremony marking the program?s 100,000th member -? a benchmark the Peace Corps took more than 20 years to reach...
Following on the heels of five consecutive years of higher-than-expected endowment growth, the drop over the last two-and-a-half month period was three percentage points below HMC's benchmark. The group forecasted a drop of 7 percent...
Because Harvard failed to meet its benchmark, Jack R. Meyer, president and chief executive of HMC, says he is not "surprised" that Harvard's endowment dropped by a larger percentage than endowments at some other schools...