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Nowhere was that more true than in the ill-conceived investment to turn the twinned 11,000-unit middle-class housing complex known as Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village, built originally to accommodate World War II veterans, into luxury housing, for which limits on yearly rent increases are chucked...
"The Federal Reserve has pressed the cost of the capital for the banks down to zero, and they still can't earn a large profit," says top Wall Street strategist Robert Arnott of Research Affiliates. "That's a problem."
"Banks write-offs usually come after the economy has already cracked," says James Paulson, chief investment officer of Wells Capital Management. "The charge-off rate looks to have peaked." (See the worst business deals of 2009.)
Months of speculation came to an end on Tuesday afternoon as Japan Airlines (JAL), the country's 59-year-old flagship carrier that once symbolized the strength of Japan Inc., filed for bankruptcy with two of its subsidiaries. Weighted by debts estimated at $25.6 billion (2.3 trillion yen), Japan Airlines...
The insurgents launched their attack around 9:30 a.m., targeting several different locations in the center of the city in swift succession - a bank, two shopping centers, a luxury hotel and government buildings, including Karzai's palace, where several members of the cabinet were being sworn in. According to a...