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Behind the abrupt movement is an important change of gear in the world economy. After four years of buoyant expansion, fueled in part by soaring house prices, the U.S. is now slowing. At the same time, Europe's economy is enjoying its strongest growth this decade, powered by a resurgent Germany. Growth rates on both sides of the Atlantic are expected to be somewhere between about 2-2.5% next year, according to various forecasts...
...more boisterously than usual for the black-clad performers as they warmed up under the watchful statues of James Otis and Josiah Quincy.The energy amplified when HRO president Chrix E. Finne ’07 bounded aboard the platform to introduce conductor Dr. James Yannatos, HRO’s buoyant music director since 1964.The performance opened with Giuseppe Verdi’s “Overture to La Forza del Destino,” an opera that follows the story of two clandestine paramours. The overture foreshadows the impending tragedy with a dark, surging theme which was gradually accelerated...
FOLLOWING THE YDN'S revelation of, let's say, buoyant grades at Yale, the Prince reports that grade-capped Princeton students are (surprise!) not happy with their deflated GPAs. Specifically, 75 percent told the student government that Princeton's grade-deflation policy is having a "negative effect on the University's academic environment." This is from an anoymous comment on the survey: "My grades are much lower than those of my friends from other schools. Why would an employer hire a Princeton grad with a [GPA of] 3.5 instead of a Harvard grad with...
...years later, with our second child on board, we bought more shares when a further slab of the company was privatized in the so-called T2 offer. Australians were then still relatively new to direct share ownership, once the preserve of the wealthy. The stock market was buoyant, especially the technology and telecommunication sectors. If there was any qualm about the wider economy ("a miracle economy" after sailing through the Asian financial crisis), it was that Australia's was an "old" economy. Too reliant on commodity exports, many pundits said, Australia was being left behind as the rest...
...bonds, or pay above the minimum depending upon the performance of other asset classes, such as stock-market indexes or commodities. "The beauty of structured products is you can tailor them to clients' needs," says Gary Tiernan, head of product management for Deutsche Bank in Asia. It's a buoyant enough business that Deutsche now has a structured-product team of five or six people in Singapore alone, catering to private-banking clients there...