Word: growths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Moved PermanentlyMoved PermanentlyFortune Investor Data"People see 4.1 percent growth and they start thinking about inflation again, no matter how low it seems to be now," says TIME Wall Street columnist Daniel Kadlec. "And after yesterday's rally, there's a mood that this may be the last chance to get out." But that doesn't fully explain the run on the big Dow industrials, which have lately been favorites in times of trouble. Kadlec thinks some of that can be blamed on the holiday. "There's often a lightening of positions before a long weekend," he says, "so traders...
...Growth is the first goal, and of course that reflects the goal for the current [Capital] Campaign for a substantial increase in the size of the Faculty in that field," he said...
There exists a paradigm of the perfect economy, a place where a dismal scientist may even lay down his HP-19B calculator because analysis is superfluous in a land where supply and demand are calibrated, inflation is checked, growth steady, the workforce fully employed and the stock market bullish. For the moment, the U.S. may be that perfect economy, and that means the greatest challenge for Larry Summers, 44, the new nominee for Secretary of the Treasury, will be not to muck things...
Social life. Harvard has not built a "real" student center, the final clubs remain the site of much of the party action and the presence of fraternities and sororities has slowly begun to expand. Still, the growth of extracurricular organizations and the post-randomization era of house life has meant a wider array of weekend offerings. The decision by many final clubs to shut their doors to non-members also bodes well for the further democratization of Harvard's social scene. Verdict: Better to even...
What's behind this shift to economy-sensitive "cyclical" stocks? The U.S. economy appears to be in no danger of slowing, and the world economy may be ready for a coordinated growth spurt. That promises to increase demand for manufactured goods, the equipment needed to make them and the raw materials that go into them. Indeed, commodities prices have been edging higher for a month. Cyclical companies can raise prices in that kind of environment, which makes them far less vulnerable to the dark side of economic growth--inflation and higher interest rates. If rates, which have also been going...