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...whole sections of this market, from cyclical industries like coal and steel and copper companies to banks and savings and loans. Cyclicals need low rates to keep the expansion going. Financials rely on the spread between short rates and long rates for much of their profits, and if the Fed takes up short-term rates, their margins will be squeezed and their earnings could disappear...
...dotcoms and their Net-infrastructure brethren have proved immune to higher rates. How else can you explain the NASDAQ's 80% increase, the greatest uplift in any U.S. average's history, in light of the major interest-rate rises of 1999? Put simply, any Fed moves to tighten may set off a further stampede into the hottest stocks around...
That is largely why Venezuelans last year elected the populist, corruption-busting Chavez. A former army paratrooper colonel, he led a bloody but failed coup attempt in 1992 that was widely applauded by citizens fed up with cogollo rule. Many citizens complained that Chavez's government was initially slow to respond to the disaster. They conceded, however, that he was doing more than his effete predecessors would probably have done--dispatching troops to set up relocation camps and touring the devastated areas in his trademark red beret. On Dec. 15, the day the flooding began, voters approved his new federal...
Center of the World London: Heart of the world's largest empire. Rivals: Berlin, the Kaiser's haughty home base; San Francisco, cosmopolis built by gold, fed by trade and trains...
...1930s Alan Turing first described the computer--a machine that could perform logical functions based on whatever instructions were fed to it--and then proceeded to help build one in the early 1940s that cracked the German wartime codes. His concepts were refined by other computer pioneers: John von Neumann, John Atanasoff, J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly...