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...warning signs are everywhere. Share prices in the relentlessly upbeat stock market now stand at sky-high levels by historical standards, and dividend yields have fallen to near record lows -- classic signals that the bull market that began 2 1/2 years ago has got dangerously long in the tooth. At the same time, companies continue to flood Wall Street with new issues to cash in on the bull's run before it can stumble -- another omen that the market may be overheated and headed for a fall. Even the current rush of little-guy buyers is usually a harbinger...
...last count, Genevieve Chelius, Sarah Winters, Emily Buxton, Maria Hennessy and Erin Cleary had all fallen victim to some sort of shin injury. None, however, will miss the NCAA playoffs...
...trial is a measure of just how far the '80s' flashiest arbitrager has fallen. Seema denies that she has any of his money, and even insists that he built his fortune in part using her family's money. She tearfully recounted the torment that has resulted from her former husband's crimes. Charities returned her checks, schools that had once taken millions removed the Boesky name from buildings, and she was threatened by one of the bankers Boesky % helped bring to trial. "Overnight I went from someone who felt proud of who she was to a social outcast," she sobbed...
...amount of adulation seemed to satisfy Koresh, whose egomania apparently disguised an emptiness at his center. Fallen-away follower Marc Breault, who sometimes played bass in the rock band Koresh organized at the compound, says that even practicing together was difficult because Koresh threw tantrums when he hit a wrong note in front of the others. "It's very difficult being in a band with God's messenger," says Breault...
...Commerce Department reported that Americans shut their wallets in March and sent retail sales down 1% for the steepest monthly decline in more than two years. While part of that drop reflected the severe March weather, Commerce revised its earlier optimistic figures for February, saying store sales had fallen 0.3% instead of rising 0.3%, as it had originally reported. "The momentum of the recovery is decidedly fading," says Allen Sinai, chief economist of the Boston Co. Economic Advisors. "The surge late last year was not, and is not, sustainable...