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...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...
...same period, the S&P 500 fell 24.6 percent. The index has fallen an additional 12.4 percent since then...
There was also more timely evidence that the economy is in trouble. A much-watched real-time indicator of manufacturing activity, the Institute for Supply Management's monthly purchasing managers index, fell to a 26-year low. The JPMorgan global purchasing managers index, a measure that's only been around since 1998, hit an all-time low, with exporting nations such as China and Korea especially hard...
...professor Warren Bennis. “It is composed of former honorees as well as faculty members from universities across the country and an assortment of others who have been interested in the project.” The CPL also recently published its annual “National Leadership Index,” which is compiled by HKS Professor Todd L. Pittinsky from public opinion surveys. The results this year revealed the most negative attitudes since the project began in 2005. Respondents rated their confidence level either the same or lower in every one of the 13 leadership sectors, which...
...course, that doesn't mean the market won't keep falling, getting even cheaper. For the global market, as measured by the MSCI World Index, to hit the valuation it did in the 1981 recession, stock prices would need to fall an additional 40%. (See the Top 10 Dow Jones drops...