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...When the quantitative models used to measure default risk on the new mortgage-backed instruments vastly underestimated actual delinquencies, many of these investors found themselves with unexpected losses. Concern about just how far these losses extend - and whether major financial institutions are at risk - has caused global stock and bond markets to tremble in recent weeks as investors sold assets to raise cash. This presents a particularly thorny problem for policymakers. Central banks have used special injections of liquidity to prevent key interbank credit lines from seizing up. But the U.S. Federal Reserve has few levers to pull when...
...wrong name for the executive at Pacific Investment Management Company (PIMCO) that Mohamed A. El-Erian, president and CEO of Harvard Management Company, was expected to succeed if he had not come to Harvard. The executive was Bill Gross, founder of PIMCO and manager of the company's bond fund—not William S. Thompson, the company...
...benefits of breast-feeding are many and varied. Studies suggest that breast-fed kids are smarter, taller, thinner, healthier and less stressed than babies on bottles. Plus, breast-feeding helps moms bond with their babies and may even lower their blood pressure. So, is there anything breast milk can't do? Apparently, yes, according to a new study published Tuesday by BMJ Online: It doesn't offer infants much defense against asthma or allergies...
...professionally managed market for mortgage securities travel from giddy abandon to deep despair in a matter of months, dragging other markets down with it. That's just this year: think back to the rise and fall of the dotcoms, the emerging-markets meltdown of 1997 and 1998, the bond crash of 1994, the stock crash of 1987. As Bogle put it a few years back, "Keynes one, Bogle nothing...
...economic minds like bond guru Bill Gross have been clamoring for federal action to help out the estimated 2 million people who are in danger of losing their homes. But it may take more dire circumstances to push Congress and President Bush. Here's what they've done...