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...Poor's 500 and the New York Stock Exchange composite index both set new records. Can anything stop this expansion? The economy is continues to grow at a moderate rate, keeping inflation and interest rates low. As a result, investors continue to pour money into mutual funds: Stock and bond funds received an additional $27 billion last month. The six-year bull market, which has seen the Dow rise from around 2,400 in 1990, shows little sign of letting up. All that good news has investors confident of still higher markets, which is exactly what worries some analysts. "Unbridled...
Advocates of low-income housing also have proposed a new 1.5 percent fee on all sales of residential property and a major bond authorization, in order to fund the non-profit purchase of former rent-controlled buildings...
...want a hot investment tip? Better make that TIPS, the acronym for a new class of U.S. government bond that went on sale last week--and quickly turned into the Treasury Department's version of Tickle-Me Elmo. The new wonder bonds, known as Treasury Inflation Protection Securities, were snapped up by institutional investors such as insurance companies and pension funds, which lugged $37 billion to the table, even though only $7 billion worth of the 10-year notes were actually up for sale...
TIPS promise a twofold benefit: first, to safeguard investors' principal against the ravages of rising prices; second, to cut the cost of financing America's $4 trillion national debt. Wall Street too is happy: bond dealers get a new plaything in the bargain. Gushes Deputy Treasury Secretary Larry Summers: "This is a win-win idea: better for citizens, better for government, better for financial markets...
...seriously in business or policy work if they are grouped together with other women. One economics concentrator recently told me that she does not like to think of herself as a woman; she prefers to see herself as a future business executive and does not understand the need to "bond" with other women...