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...which means if consumers have fallen in love with bargain-hunting, waiting longer to shop and shopping at cheaper stores, the post-Christmas sales season is going to be a shoppers' paradise for anyone with a few bucks left over. Many big chains kicked things off immediately with early openings and big specials Dec. 26, and Sears in particular was offering special promotions with discounts as deep as 85 percent, as well as zero-percent financing on some appliances...
...eager to try business-to-business, or B2B, exchanges on the Internet. The suppliers' partners were suddenly asking them to sign up for anonymous public online exchanges and bid for contracts. Feeling jilted, many refused to sign up. That's one reason so many companies selling B2B services have fallen on their face...
...That's nowhere near the 14% from stocks in the same period. But it's unlikely that stocks will keep up such a torrid pace. Their long-run return is about 10% a year, and even that mark may be hard to achieve for a while. Yes, stocks have fallen sharply and are cheaper. But their recovery will be hampered because they remain expensive relative to earnings, dividends and book value...
...fairly certain that no solider searched that village even though it was far more accessible than those higher in the mountains. The bomb, it turned out, had fallen harmlessly in an open field, but the hostility I felt there was obvious. I couldn't imagine those people turning bin Laden over to the US even for the promise of $25 million. No government here keeps its promises - why should one that bombs them...
Seeing Osama bin Laden chuckling ghoulishly over his "achievement" on September 11 reminded most Americans why they want him dead. And many had been expecting the battle of Tora Bora to produce his body. But al-Qaeda's last Afghan redoubt has fallen and bin Laden's whereabouts, in Pentagon parlance, are "anyone's guess." Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz found himself playing damage control Tuesday, reminding the nation that the war on terrorism is about far more than...