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That fluidity was perhaps the only certainty of the fast-changing situation. On Monday morning, a 5.6 earthquake in Mexico added to that country's woes, where the death count from suspected swine flu cases had climbed to 152 and more than 1,600 people across the nation had fallen ill. So far, laboratories have confirmed only 26 of Mexico's cases, including seven deaths, as swine flu. In an effort to stem further spread of the apparently deadly disease, the Mexican government announced that all schools would be closed until at least...
...April 8, the U.S. steel industry filed an antidumping suit with American authorities against Beijing, alleging that $2.7 billion of pipe steel was unfairly dumped onto the American market last year. Eurofer General Director Gordon Moffat calls it a "perfect storm" for a trade war. "Demand has fallen off a cliff since October," Moffat says. "We know China is simply waiting for demand to return before flooding the markets...
There are signs, though, that such credit spreads are moderating. Though far from anything that might be characterized as "normal," it is nonetheless a good sign for the Federal Government's credit-easing efforts that corporate borrowing costs have fallen to their lowest level since October, according to indexes that track the price of company bonds. (See the best business deals...
...sell a stock at an agreed price, called the strike price, largely depends on the volatility of the underlying stock. If a stock is more volatile, and therefore more likely to move farther up or down, options are more valuable. For instance, as the market has fallen over the past year, investors have flooded into put options - the right to sell a stock - in order to hedge their portfolio against steep falls in the stock market. Thus, the prices of put options increased, and with them, the VIX. (Read "The Volatility Index: A Primer...
...House could not afford to accommodate as many undergraduates who did not qualify for federal work-study as in past years. All the Kirkland undergraduates who were newly hired this year to work in the library participate in federal work-study. The number of library employees has also fallen from 13 to 10. “It’s been the most prominent cost-cutting initiative visible in the House,” said Kirkland library supervisor Joshua C. Feblowitz ’09. Before the University began mandating sweeping budget cuts across its constituent schools, the central library...