Word: crimping
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...emerging markets or subprime corporate debt. Indeed, stocks and bonds in emerging markets, which soared when money was plentiful, now stand to lose the most - and not just because global liquidity is returning to normal. There is also a chance that a likely slowdown in U.S. consumer demand would crimp the economies of export-led developing countries. China and Mexico would be especially vulnerable, as would the rest of an increasingly China-centric Asian supply chain. Nor has the developing world become more self-sufficient. While pan-Asian trade has increased significantly since the late 1990s, much of the trade...
...International banking centers such as Hong Kong and Dubai will also be affected by language requiring all nations to not facilitate wire transfers relating to North Korea's missile program. That could crimp North Korea's ability to finance its weapons programs by selling conventional arms abroad. "It starts to put more pressure all along the supply chain and the financing of those transactions," says the State official...
...former Bush Administration official who has been involved in Guantanamo issues believes the suicides could put a crimp in the international praise Bush has received for his tentative détente with Iran: "It reinforces the perception that he can't play nicely with the world and will stir up the monitoring organizations, which hurts the President abroad." The detainees' deaths are unlikely to become a domestic political liability, the source says, because the American voter assumes "that if they're in Gitmo, they're pretty bad." But the former official adds, "People don't react very well to surprises like...
...sent stocks tumbling, with the Dow falling more than 2%, or almost 250 points, in the first two days of the week. The harsh reaction wasn't just due to Bernanke's unusually blunt outlook, though certainly the stock market doesn't like higher interest rates, which tend to crimp corporate profits as people are lured to save money instead of spend. It was also that his position on interest rates flat out shocked the markets ? and there are few things investors dislike more than surprises. The Fed has raised interest rates 16 times in a row, a run that...
...today are patched and sequinned jeans, worn pale where she sits, and a ribbed magenta shorty top both lower and higher than it should be. Blue plastic barrettes pull her glistening hair back as straight as it will go; the plump edge of her right ear holds along its crimp a row of little silver rings. She sings in assembly programs, songs of Jesus or sexual longing, both topics abhorrent to Ahmad. Yet he is pleased that she notices him, coming up to him now and then like a tongue testing a sensitive tooth...