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...have also led fixed-income investors to seek out countries offering higher rates. And the swelling budget deficit, which threatens to slow U.S. economic growth, has cast doubt on the greenback's outlook just as many overseas economies are starting to rebound. Says Marc Chandler, chief currency strategist at HSBC USA bank: "The dollar is in a long-term decline...
Istanbul has now joined Riyadh - and Casablanca and Jakarta and Karachi and Mombasa, among others - as a new theater of al-Qaeda's global jihad. A brace of suicide bombings killed some 27 people at the city's British consulate and the headquarters of the London-based bank HSBC on Thursday, following on last Saturday's attacks on two synagogues that killed 25 people. The attacks, for which al-Qaeda affiliated groups have claimed responsibility are a reminder both of the group's resilience, but also of its new form. And the fact that Thursday's targets were British served...
...Take that spectacular 3.9% annualized second-quarter growth rate. In a pair of reports entitled The Paradox of Deflation and The Paradox of Deflation Solved, HSBC Securities senior economist Peter Morgan concludes that Japan's gross-domestic-product figures are increasingly skewed by discrepancies in how price changes for different types of goods (particularly computers and other information-technology products) are calculated, thereby creating significant distortions. "This suggests that official GDP data are substantially overstating economic growth," he writes. Morgan's own second-quarter GDP-growth estimate is just 2.1%. "Things may not have been as bad as everybody thought...
Kahan recommends preferred shares (yielding 6% to 8%) of bank companies, including Fleet Financial and HSBC, and of real estate investment trusts, including Vornado Realty and Health Care Properties. He likes junk-bond mutual funds, including Columbia High Yield and Northeast Investors. He also favors short-maturity bond funds (which yield just north of 1%) like Vanguard Short-Term Bond. Bank CDs are another alternative to money-market funds. Keep a mix of CDs that come due in three, six, 12 and 18 months. You can get 2% on a three-year CD, but you'll run the risk...
...looked as if the U.K's revolt against fat-cat compensation - the movement against oversize salaries and bonuses for CEOs, especially those in charge of underperforming companies - might actually have some teeth. The stage seemed set for a major showdown at the annual shareholder meeting of banking giant HSBC last Friday. A new American board member, William F. Aldinger III, was up for an eye-popping three-year, $37.5 million financial package, and shareholders would get a chance to vote on it. First, they got a chance to sound off. "This American-style remuneration has no place in this country...