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...Since Jan. 2, the Standard & Poor's 500 index has given back roughly half of the 24% gain it had logged since mid-November's low of 741. The financial news, spiked with bankruptcies, bank losses, surging foreclosures, rising unemployment and a slew of lifestyle stories on how to live on less, is unnerving investors. On Thursday they confirmed their wariness by taking the Dow Industrials below 8000 briefly before boosting the index back to close at 8212, up 12.35 points...
...Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a U.S. journal, scientists measured 44 male traders' second-to-fourth-digit-length ratio, which is otherwise known as 2D:4D and is an indicator of the effects of prenatal testosterone. The longer a trader's fourth finger relative to his index finger, and therefore the lower the 2D:4D ratio, the greater his prenatal exposure to the hormone. All of those taking part in the study carried out the same type of trading over the 20-month period studied and had the same access to cash and information, and none benefited from...
...have made a deliberate decision to hold equities in pursuit of superior investment performance, and in some years that has worked. But this year, "it's gone wrong, and spectacularly so," says Adrian Hartshorn, a principal in Mercer's financial-strategy group. In 2008 the Standard & Poor's 500 index declined...
...Some experts suggested that further changes could help ensure future solvency in the trust fund and also benefit unemployed workers. “One thing that could increase the long-term stability of a system is to increase the wage base on which unemployment taxes are calculated, and to index that to inflation,” said Noah Berger, the executive director of the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center. The state currently taxes up to $14,000 of employee income. Margaret Monsell, an attorney at the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute, voiced similar suggestions. “There?...
Obama knows that just beyond the flashbulbs, a darkening storm hangs over the nation. The national and global economies continue to deteriorate at a terrifying pace. The ISM Manufacturing Index, a key measurement of domestic production, hit a 28-year low in December. Payrolls fell an additional half million last month, leading economists to predict that the total job losses in 2008 were greater than at any point since the immediate aftermath of World War II. The housing-price free fall has yet to show any clear sign of stabilization...