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...subprime borrowers, those with less-than-perfect credit: As of July, nearly one-third of those borrowers were more than 60 days late on their mortgages. All told, some 6.5 million families will lose their homes to foreclosure in the next few years, according to the projections of financial firm Credit Suisse...
...cities are the centerpiece of Saudi Arabia's plans to diversify its economy from oil and gas and to boost its manufacturing sector, especially in energy-intensive industries like aluminum and steel. KAEC, for instance, will have a $5 billion smelter built by the United Arab Emirates firm Dubal, one of the world's largest aluminum manufacturers. Another Emirates firm, Emaar, is the city's main developer; there's scarcely any government investment or involvement in the construction. Other companies that have signed up to invest include France's Total, Sweden's Ericsson and U.S. firm Capri Capital, which...
...says most of his 350,000 members are "some combination of nervous, scared, in the trenches. At the moment, credit is not a problem only because they're in survivor mode, waiting to see if they're going to have customers tomorrow." David Guernsey, who owns an office-products firm in Chantilly, Va., knows the feeling. While less expensive items are selling, purchases of office furniture that are normally bank-financed are lagging. Customers are telling his sales staff, "We just need to circle the wagons and wait this thing out," Guernsey says. That's true among large corporations...
...month--a more traditional individual plan might charge a $400 premium and a deductible closer to $500--may find themselves shelling out thousands more dollars down the line. "So many of these policies can be really shoddy," says Barbara Anthony, executive director of Health Law Advocates, a nonprofit law firm based in Boston. "Know up front what you're paying...
...Chinese manufacturer that was getting feedback about its washing machines' clogging up drains. The company investigated and found that the machines worked just fine but that rural consumers were using them to wash potatoes. What would an American company do to solve this problem? Call in a p.r. firm to tell consumers that washing vegetables voids their warranty? The Chinese company had a better idea: it added a vegetable-wash cycle to its machines. We call this innovating with ingenuity--and no government program can teach this...