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These IDs won’t work in every situation, but they are a start. In addition to helping people gain access to regulated spaces, they can also give people the confidence that goes along with having an authority officially back up their identity. And armed with these SRLP IDs, the teenagers were able to get into the pool and cool...
...read these tea leaves? You can find other information sources, Mitchell suggests. Each month the Conference Board www.conference-board.org publishes an index of 10 leading economic indicators, including new consumer-goods orders and manufacturing hours worked. (The index rose a sharp 1% in May after a slight gain in April.) On the job front, check out hiring firm Manpower manpower.com) whose quarterly surveys ask employers whether they're planning to expand or shrink their staff. (The June release reported the weakest quarter in 12 years.) Or you may decide that daily ignorance is bliss. Says financial adviser Harold Evensky of Coral...
...downs. Problem is, they often act at the wrong time and make less than they would have if they had done nothing at all. While the S&P 500 returned an annualized 12.2% from 1984 through 2002, the average stock-fund investor saw a meager 2.6% yearly gain--which didn't even outpace inflation (ringing in at 3.1%), according to a recent study by Boston research firm Dalbar Inc. The reason: the average investor held fund shares for just 30 months, often mistiming the market. Bond-fund investors held shares for 34 months on average, for an annualized return...
...Zhang, 39, the founder of Chinese Internet portal Sohu.com was clinging to the face of Mount Everest, 6,666 m above sea level. That's high but nothing compared with the altitude of his company's stock price. On July 10, Sohu shares closed at $38.25 on NASDAQ--a gain of 245% since April 1. More impressive, Sohu shares are worth 36 times their value during the dark days of the Internet bust, when they traded for less than...
When Wu launched Little Smart in China in 1998, few would have predicted he would gain the 18 million users the company now has. Little Smart is based on the "personal handyphone" technology that flopped in Japan in the 1990s. But Wu, who has an electrical-engineering degree from the New Jersey Institute of Technology, refined the system and managed to sell it to China's giant fixed-line firms, China Telecom and China Netcom, both of which wanted to grab a piece of the mobile market but have not yet been granted licenses by China's Ministry of Information...