Word: drops
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...When things go well, as they did until last year, Lehman is immensely profitable. If you borrow 35 times your capital and those investments rise only 1%, you've made 35% on your money. If, however, things move against you - as they did with Lehman - a 1% or 2% drop in the value of your assets puts your future in doubt. The firm increasingly relied on investments in derivatives to produce profits, in essence creating a financial arms race with competitors like Goldman Sachs. Even though the Fed had set up a special borrowing program for Lehman and other investment...
...sense," he says. "You have to write them in the frame. If you stop in the middle of a picture, I imagine, leave it for several weeks and start again, you're going to get a lopsided composition. Some of my best writing comes from serendipity. [Unexpected] things drop...
...York stock market crashed in 1929 the economic shockwaves reached London, Paris and beyond, in one of the first examples of global economic contagion. News travels a little faster these days, and markets don't just follow Wall Street's lead, they anticipate it: stocks in parts of Asia dropped even before New York awoke last Monday, previewing the bloodbath that was to come in the U.S. Here's the buzz (and gloom) from five global financial centers - along with the drop in their main stock index between the moment before opening on Monday and the close of trading three...
...lose as much weight as other patients after the surgery. Of the 310 patients in the study, 92% of those without diabetes were able to lose more than 40% of their excess weight - statistically, that's considered a successful procedure - while only 79% of diabetes patients were able to drop that much weight after one year. In both cases, doctors used the same surgical technique, which involves permanently sectioning off a small pouch from the stomach and connecting it directly to the intestines, which forces patients to eat less and allows food to bypass the rest of the stomach...
...office will also be holding its first-ever “Senior Month,” starting yesterday and lasting until Oct. 15, with special events and drop-in hours targeted at helping seniors learn how to search for jobs...