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...then had to wait up to six years for prices to hit their previous peak. Robert Shiller, a Yale economist who has long warned of a bubble, thinks price stagnation (or worse) is here to stay but that Americans don't want to believe it. "People still expect double-digit gains," he says, citing surveys of homeowners...
Conversely, short-term cash instruments haven't looked this good in years. Simple, safe money-market funds now yield a healthy 5%--not bad in an uncertain environment in which Treasury bonds yield just a tad more and corporate profits are likely to downshift from double-digit growth to the 6%-to-8% range. For the past few months, money funds have had the best returns of the major asset classes. It used to be tough to find much more than a 1% money-fund yield."Having liquidity and getting 5% are a big deal," says Peter Crane, president...
This week shoppers in a Dallas mall will bear witness to an oddity. For more than a decade, Dell has posted double-digit growth by selling computers directly to customers, most of them corporate clients. But two unfriendly trends have driven Dell to sell its wares at a place where chairman Michael Dell swore he would never be caught dead: a Dell retail store...
While tame compared with the double-digit rises of the 1970s, oil prices are again the driving force behind inflation, with energy costs rising 31% at an annual rate so far in 2006. That ripples through the rest of the economy, showing up as fuel surcharges on services like airline tickets (up 7.9% so far this year) and higher prices on pretty much anything that travels before reaching a store. Even clothing has been inching up after months of deep discounting. "I wouldn't expect a lot of relief on gasoline prices," says Richard Berner, chief U.S. economist at Morgan...
...more expensive, it's about making the brand more approachable and affordable to a wider range of customers," says Marshal Cohen, chief industry analyst at U.S. research house NPD Group. Brands that have performed best have paired athletic credibility with aesthetic design. Adidas' partnership with McCartney has produced triple-digit growth, with distribution hurtling from 40 stores to more than 450 worldwide in just four seasons. But a collaboration with Japanese designer Yohji Yamamoto to produce Y-3, a sports-fashion range that focuses on style above functionality, has been less successful. Part of the strength of the sports-fashion...