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...instruments performed well. The net ending fair value [or net gains/losses] of these equity, fixed-income, commodity, currency, and credit instruments totaled over $600 million as of June 30, representing a gain from the $100 million in net ending fair value from the previous year...
...According to Harvard’s annual financial statement issued in October, the University continues to use a variety of financial instruments with undisclosed risk—including options, forwards, credit default swaps, and exchange agreements—to gain exposure to various asset classes without having to actually invest in those assets...
...stock market rally over? Up through Thursday's close, stocks were up 21% over two weeks, a gain fueled by positive news from the moribund housing market, an uptick in durable goods orders, and a well received plan from Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to clean up the banking industry's toxic-asset mess. (Read "Banks: How Toxic Are They...
...cost control. In the U.S. you do it by not providing health care to some people. We are best known [for looking] at a new drug, device or diagnostic technique to see whether the increment in the cost of that treatment is worth the increment in the health gain. (See pictures of health care in Tehran...
...rescue the economy. Former-national bank governor Gyorgy Suranyi and academic Ferenc Glatz have both been mentioned as possible caretaker premiers. Or the country might decide to go to the polls early which would open the way for the rightwing Alliance of Young Democrats (Fidesz) party to gain power. Though Fidesz leaders are publicly calling for an early vote, they may prefer to wait until next year. "Fidesz's rhetoric is that they desperately want elections, but they are afraid of the job," says Political Capital's Szabados. "If they win early elections, they will have to face the financial...