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...yield on lower-quality investment-grade corporate bonds - triple-B rated - is hovering around 10%, an unusually rich 7.5-percentage-point spread over Treasury bonds of similar maturity. (That spread has tripled over the past year.) Or consider junk bonds, as measured by Merrill Lynch's High Yield bond index, which yield a jaw-dropping 22%. Of course, junk bonds come from the riskiest borrowers, and a deep recession could drive up the default rate among those companies. But current lofty yields imply investor expectations that one-fifth of these bonds will default, according to Moody's, even though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stocks Say Recession, but Bonds Say Depression | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

...book, Gladwell argues that this crash of a flight from Colombia to New York, which resulted in 73 deaths, was caused, at least in part, by how cultural differences affect the way people act—even the way some fly planes. Colombians have a “high index of power distance,” according to Gladwell, which is a term from cross-cultural psychology describing the hesitancy of underlings to question superiors. This cultural phenomenon caused the Colombian co-pilot to speak timidly to the air traffic control booth’s gruff New Yorker. Even...

Author: By Mac Mcanulty, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Gladwell Regales Crowd With Gripping Disaster | 12/9/2008 | See Source »

...same period, the Standard & Poor’s 500 index fell 24.6 percent. The index has fallen an additional 9.6 percent since then...

Author: By Wyatt P. Gleichauf and Clifford M. Marks, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: $1.5 Billion in Debt Sold To Raise Cash | 12/8/2008 | See Source »

...November alone, pension plans lost about $130 billion, marking the second consecutive month of record declines, according to a new report from Mercer, the financial consulting firm. The companies Mercer studied - those in the Standard & Poor's 1,500 index, which includes household names like 3M and Coca Cola - reported their pension plans ended 2007 with a $60 billion surplus. So the swiftness of this year's decline is astonishing. (Read "Is It OK to Pray for Your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pension Funds Take Another Pounding | 12/5/2008 | See Source »

...same period, the S&P 500 fell 24.6 percent. The index has fallen an additional 12.4 percent since then...

Author: By Clifford M. Marks and June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Harvard Endowment Fell 22 Percent in Four Months | 12/2/2008 | See Source »

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