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...still find a private investor to swoop in and rescue the firm. By some estimates, CIT has to find as much as $6 billion in new capital - and fast - to keep the lights on, and in this economy, most investors are betting that's not likely. CIT shares have fallen 90% this year, and traded around 40 cents on Thursday. A bankruptcy, some say, could come before the weekend. And that has many people for the first time in months getting nervous that the simmering financial crisis could heat up again. (See the top 10 bankruptcies...
...other behemoths stood sturdy. In its second weekend, the 3-D cartoon Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs is projected to finish right behind Brüno, at $28.5 million, for a worldwide 10-day gross of $312.5 million. And that overblown toy story, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, has earned more than that just in North America. In fewer than 20 days, the second Transformers has overtaken the first one in its entire domestic theatrical run and entered the all-time top 20, passing every Harry Potter and Pirates of the Caribbean movie. (Is this the crappiest movie...
...million, first weekend 2. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, $28.5 million; $120.6 million, second week 3. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, $24.2 million; $339.2 million, second week 4. Public Enemies, $14.1 million; $66.5 million, second week 5. The Proposal, $10.5 million; $113.8 million, fourth week 6. The Hangover, $9.3 million; $222.4 million, sixth week 7. I Love You, Beth Cooper, $5 million, first weekend 8. Up, $4.7 million; $273.8 million; seventh week 9. My Sister's Keeper, $4.2 million; $35.8 million, third week 10. The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, $1.6 million; $61.5 million, fifth week...
...accelerating," the authors noted. "Also, there is an expected time delay between the moment someone loses her job or home and the moment she enters the shelter system." While the agency plans to begin issuing quarterly "pulse reports" to keep pace with the issue, counting people who have fallen through society's cracks is no easy task. The Obama Administration's $787 billion economic-stimulus package allots $1.2 billion for combating homelessness, but without a full understanding of the problem's scope - and with the unemployment rate creeping toward double digits - the struggle to contain it will continue...
...mass walk-aways being a highly localized event. Sapienza and her colleagues plotted data on late mortgage payments and home-price declines and found very little relationship between the two when house prices in a metropolitan area had dropped less than 20% from their peak. However, once prices had fallen more than 20%, a disproportionate number of people wound up behind on their mortgage payments, even when the unemployment rate (a measure of means to pay) was held constant...