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TIME Your mortgage business slipped over the past few years as the refinancing boom slowed. Are things back in order? K.K. A year ago, we had a poor second quarter, and I told the capital markets that we had challenges in the mortgage area. I said we're going to address them head on, and here's what we're going to do over the next year: we're going to strengthen our management team, we will aggressively bring our costs down, and we will refine the hedging strategies in order to reduce some of the volatility that...
...anniversary of the end of World War II, when atom bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki drove Japan to accept defeat in history's bloodiest conflict. Japan has focused on peaceful economic development over the intervening six decades, and can take much of the credit for Asia's 20th century boom. But recent debate over issues such as Japan's bid for a permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council, or reforms to its pacifist constitution to allow a standing army, has made some of its neighbors uneasy...
...Pakistan: Boom or Bust? "Going Up?" on Pakistan's booming economy [July 11] said remittance money sent home by Pakistanis living overseas has flowed into stocks and real estate, driving up the price of property in cities like Lahore and Karachi 300% or more, and triggering a sharp economic upturn. That news leaves me sad and confused. As your report made clear, economic success is a cruel joke to most of our country's 160 million people. The sole beneficiary of skyrocketing property prices is the group composed of the ruling ?lite and the wealthy. They made fortunes...
...already taken actions to cool off its overheated property sector, and it does not want to risk overkill by crushing exports. Collectively, fixed investments and exports account for 80% of China's GDP, and they are both still growing at close to a 30% annual rate. China's boom would quickly turn into a bust if both slowed sharply. A small upward adjustment of the currency should reinforce the modest slowing of Chinese exports that was already in the cards. China's leadership will most likely adopt a wait-and-see stance as far as further currency moves are concerned...
AMAZON'S STOCK PRICE HAS FALLEN 17% OVER THE PAST 12 MONTHS. WILL THERE BE BOOM TIMES AGAIN? We went public at a split-adjusted price of $1.50 a share, and it's gone to $38 a share in eight years, which is unusual performance by any measure. We focus on things that matter to customers, not the stock price, which takes care of itself. The business results generated by the company? This is by far our best year ever...