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...cash buyers are paying through the nose. Borrowers are increasingly resorting to floating-rate and interest-only loans, which all but guarantee that they will pay more over the life of their loans. Officially, though, housing looks like a bargain. Why? The housing component of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) is based on rents, which are tame and in some regions have even fallen...
Even for Greenspan, whose sense of the pulse of the economy is legendary, the current financial environment has to be a source of concern, if not confusion. Although a key index of leading economic indicators fell in March, unemployment claims also dropped, by the biggest number in more than three years. The core index of consumer prices suffered its largest jump in nearly three years, yet the wages of most workers are not keeping pace...
Critical cases of hyponatremia occurred in .6 percent of the sample, or three runners. The most common risk factors were significant weight gain during the race, longer race times, and a lower body-mass index, Almond said...
...everyone these days seems to be groping for a way to get rich off India. Foreign institutional investors poured $8.9 billion into Indian equities in 2004 and $3 billion so far this year, up from $750 million in 2002. Awash in cash from overseas, Sensex--India's main stock index--has more than doubled in two years to hit a recent all-time high. As Udwadia puts it, "astute foreign investors" recognize that India's rise is "a unique opportunity...
...most voguish are Indian mid-cap funds, which bet on riskier companies that may one day grow up to be blue chips. In November and December alone, the CNX mid-cap index jumped 28%. Returns like those make life worth living, but gravity has a way of bringing things back to earth. When I met him in Bombay, Nilesh Shah, head of equity strategy at Kotak Securities, seemed pleased but perplexed by the performance of his team's fledgling mid-cap fund, targeted at foreigners willing to pony up $100,000. Six months after its launch last August, he marveled...