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...engaging in a rate race to the bottom. China on Oct. 29 cut its interest rates for the third time in six weeks, and the BOJ is expected to cut its key policy rate below the current 0.5% soon. Though rates in Japan are already almost nil, Tokyo's hand is to an extent being forced by Washington. That's because as U.S. rates fall, fewer investors are willing to hold U.S. dollar debt, which undermines the value of American currency vs. the yen - and a stronger yen is bad news for Japan. It makes the country's exports more...
...nonunion salaried workforce before Christmas. In an e-mail to employees, Nardelli said the layoffs would be handled as humanely as possible as he urged employees to retire or accept buyouts. Cash for the buyouts will apparently come from the $11 billion in reserves the company had on hand at the end of the summer. "The combination of troubled financial markets, difficult credit, volatile commodity prices, the housing crisis and declining consumer confidence continue to weigh on the economy," Nardelli said...
Indonesian painter I. Nyoman Masriadi's canvas My Adventure Ended After I Met Your Mother, above, depicts a father and son standing on either side of a closed door. A mug dangles from the father's hand while the son smokes. A tantalizing, possibly indecent joke is at once advanced and withheld by the painting...
...five in South Auckland. "He's too hard," she says of Key. "Some of us are struggling. Some of us haven't got any skills." Through a government Family Assistance package, Dickson, 26, gets the rent paid on a three-bedroom house and $NZ350 a week in the hand. The money tends to run out by Mondays, two days before she's paid again. But she makes do by cooking stews that can be stretched over a couple of nights. She's grateful for what she gets: "Helen," Dickson says, "I give...
...alter all of my clothes, cut things here, pin things there,” Sung says. Her past experience in fashion has been in another realm of garments: t-shirts. She started making them in high school, specializing in “screen printing, lots of hand-stitching, embroidery, beading, and...a great attention to detail.” What began as a personal hobby has now become a full-fledged company called Port and Kit, a name inspired by the two protagonists from her favorite book, “The Sheltering Sky” by Paul Bowles. Sung created...