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...weak dollar also makes U.S. asset prices attractive to foreign investors. U.S. interest rates are higher than those in Continental Europe and are much higher than Japanese rates. Similarly, U.S. stocks look better by comparison. Measured in euros or pounds, the S&P 500 index is up less than 50% from its October 2002 lows, while European markets have more than doubled. Plus, Standard and Poor's recently reported that 44.2% of the revenues of companies in the S&P 500 index were generated abroad, up from 32% five years ago. With almost half of their revenues being earned...
...miffed at the government for allowing the IPO spigot to open wide, saying that the burgeoning supply of shares could push prices down. As far as the authorities are concerned, a bit of a correction is probably welcome. But they don't want a bust. When the Shanghai Composite Index plunged 8.8% in February after analysts warned Beijing was about to impose a capital-gains tax, the government quickly backed off. Stocks resumed their rise, but dangers remain. As tech investors learned in 1999, corrections have a way of becoming something worse-and $52 billion plunked into IPOs can become...
...Charting Peace Thanks for finding a way to print the Global Peace Index of 121 countries in order of peacefulness [June 18]. Other reports I have read gave the positions of only a few countries. There must be many international readers, like myself in country No. 42, who were satisfied to see the whole list. Sheila M. Case, Gaborone, Botswana...
...Peace Signs Re "Give peace a number" [June 18]: the Economist Intelligence Unit's Global Peace Index ranks the peacefulness of countries based on violent crimes and soldiers killed overseas. It would be interesting to see a more positive index rating, such as the "most generous and compassionate countries in the world." Charles Wolan, NIEDERWIL, SWITZERLAND...
...Calif., has assigned students to public elementary schools based on their neighborhood's racial makeup and the income and education of its residents. The plan survived a legal challenge in April, though the case is on appeal. Variations in other cities consider a neighborhood's poverty level or opportunity index, which measures a broad range of factors that can correlate with race...