Word: bond
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...read Internet) companies with little or no earnings. Even steady growth stocks like food and beverages tend to lag as their earnings cheapen in an inflationary climate. Fixed-income investors should avoid longer-term securities because prices fall as rates rise, and if you have to sell before a bond matures, you could lose money...
...Wall Street, the trick to profiting from any trend is being right about it in the first place. Despite interest rates that are markedly higher today than a year ago, it's not at all clear that rates will keep climbing. In fact, long-term interest rates--set by bond traders, not the Fed--have tumbled in recent weeks on faith that this summer's boosts in short-term rates are enough to stop inflation cold. If that's the case, the logic of the previous two paragraphs applies--in reverse. No one said this is easy. You'd want...
Technology has entered the picture. In the past, the quality of print reproductions was so poor that it preserved, by default, both the economic and the artistic value of the original work. Today artists such as Kinkade operate high-tech facilities that bond lithographs to an acrylic that can be rolled or even sprayed onto canvas with the details so fine that even the brush strokes are replicated. Kinkade's studio employs a team of 30 touch-up artists whose sole task is to hand-paint highlights onto the prints, enabling the sales team to market each...
eLance has its own, radical plan for bringing employers and employees together. After watching how markets dynamically set prices for stocks, bonds and commodities, bond trader Beerud Sheth and portfolio manager Srini Anumolu figured they could transfer the same efficiency to the job market. With a global pool of talent available to bid on every project, a programmer in Moscow could win an assignment from a firm in Iowa...
...Friday, the government filed a successful motion to have Lasaga's bond revoked, claiming that he had obstructed justice and violated state law and the conditions of his bail bond by "surreptitiously" accessing computer files belonging to a potential witness in the federal case, according to Kari A. Dooley, senior litigation counsel for the US Attorney's Office. She said Lasaga did so through the Yale computer system...