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...Federal Reserve launched an international effort to halt the dollar's steady slide, but the rescue was largely seen as a failure since the greenback rallied only briefly and the Dow industrials and bond markets plummeted. Earlier in the week currency traders pushed the dollar below the 100-yen mark for the first time since World...
...Kidder, Peabody & Co. head Michael Carpenter was replaced by two GE executives as parent company General Electric tried to redeem the securities firm's stained image. The management shake-up followed a bond scandal in which a Kidder trader was accused of misreporting $350 million to bolster his bonus, as well as a projected second-quarter loss of up to $30 million...
There are the bare bones (no pun intended) of the tale. Of course, in the 87 minutes of the movie, much more is presented. Simba's relationship with his father and the effect Mufasa's death has on the small cub is a prominent subtheme. Their bond carries even beyond death, and Simba's wish to make his father proud is a realistic drive. While the father-child relationship is a common element in Disney tales, this one is somehow much stronger, perhaps because the father is neither overly harsh (a la "The Little Mermaid") nor a bumbling fool ("Beauty...
...economies could yet cause shudders in the nascent recovery. In Japan deflation continues to haunt the economy as banks struggle to cope with swollen portfolios of bad debts. Many Japanese firms still suffer as well from excess capacity and bloated payrolls. In Europe high interest rates, fueled by the bond market's fear of an outbreak of inflation, could still put the brakes on the recovery...
Will the recovery be weighed down by rising interest rates? Business / executives, bureaucrats and factory workers share that concern. Last week the Bundesbank said it would make no further rate cuts "for some time," but that announcement exacerbated worries that inflation might be poised for a comeback. European bond-market investors have already bid up long-term interest rates appreciably. Ten-year French bonds now yield 7.6%, more than 5.6% in mid-January, and German bonds yield 7.1%, up from 1.6% in April. Many economists nonetheless argue that the Bundesbank is overstating matters and that prices are well under control...