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What's the New York hip-hop scene like and how much do you credit it for your success? New York is traditional New York, you know what I'm saying? It's the stomping ground of the hustlers and go-getters. It had a few slump years, but the scene is starting to reemerge. Brooklyn is where I primarily developed. I had an opportunity to make records and perform in clubs here and there, and I started networking with the right people in the right places. My making it is a combination of grinding, grinding, grinding and being lucky...
What's the biggest risk to a continued rise in bank stocks? There are three risks: first, that credit spreads widen again and go back up to historic highs; second, that the employment situation, on a relative basis, is not improving and we see an acceleration in the rate of weekly jobless claims; third, if housing takes another big move to the downside...
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...that Japanese consumers are continuing to spend in the recession, but have gone considerably down-market to less costly items. As a result, fast fashion "is a hot issue in Japan's fashion industry, especially after the entry of H&M," says Dairo Murata, a retail analyst at Credit Suisse in Tokyo. Luxury-brand sales in Japan are expected to decline 10% in the first half of the year compared with sales in the same period in 2008. (See the world's most influential people in the 2009 TIME...
...according to Forbes magazine. While most retailers are seeing same-store sales drop between 5% and 15%, Uniqlo's same-store sales rose 2.9% for fiscal year 2008 and 12.9% in the six months to February this year. "Uniqlo is the only big winner so far," says Murata of Credit Suisse, who thinks that for non-Japanese fast-fashion companies such as Forever 21 and H&M to succeed against Uniqlo they will have to pay more attention to quality. But Forever 21's Ok is confident that his brand can grow, and he has the tenor of the times...