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...consumer prices will rise this year by no more than 5%. Says University of Minnesota Professor Walter Heller: "I don't think the elements are there for inflation to feed on itself." Still, skittishness about inflation last week led to a dramatic spurt in the bellwether Commodity Research Bureau Index, as investors anticipated that commodity prices would continue to rise. The index, which tracks the prices of 26 raw materials, posted one of its largest one-day jumps ever, climbing nearly 3%, to 235.41. It closed the week...
...Bouton published his tell-all Ball Four in 1970, each succeeding season chronicle has been more graphic than the one before. The first entry in the 1987 baseball biography race came from Lenny Dykstra, a part-time centerfielder for The New York Mets. According to the Harper's index, the word "fuck" appears 160 times in the slim volume. That's a lot of profanity for a player with 127 hits in his career...
...lifetime total of 40 books, Adler sits as chairman of the board of editors of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, runs his own institute and promotes Britannica's Great Books program (about 250,000 copies sold since 1952), which he conceived and for which he churned out a 1 million-word index in 26 months. Sighs Theodore Sizer, 54, chairman of Brown University's department of education: "If I have that much energy and optimism when I'm his age, I'll be a lucky person...
...incredible bull market in stocks has produced billions in profits for investors over the past 4 1/2 years -- and millions in losses for those caught in the market's occasional steep downswings. That seesawing continued last week as the Dow Jones index of 30 industrial stocks ended the week at 2235.37, after skyrocketing by 66.47 points one day and dropping by 51.13 the next. Amid the ups and downs, no investor has done better than George Soros, 56. During the past two years alone, the soft-spoken, Hungarian-born manager of a fund known as Quantum has amassed a staggering...
Quantum's great leap in profits began with the move upward by the Dow from a level in the mid-1300s in August 1985. Soros caught the market wave by investing heavily not only in U.S. stocks but also in very volatile stock- index and currency futures. These can multiply returns many times over, or, conversely, produce huge losses. Now the largest so-called hedge fund, Quantum uses its stock and bond portfolio as collateral to buy more stocks and securities...