Word: interest
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Despite the attrition, Pinkerton said she was surprised that the ad drew the number of respondents that it did. An earlier ad for the same couple--which promised "large financial incentive" but omitted a dollar figure--did not attract much interest...
Despite the attrition, Pinkerton said she was surprised that the ad drew the number of respondents that it did. An earlier ad for the same couple--which promised "large financial incentive" but omitted a dollar figure--did not attract much interest...
Thank you, Mr. Greenspan ?- may we go now? Right on time at 2:20 p.m. Wednesday, the Federal Reserve released Wall Street from months of suspense. It raised short-term interest rates by one quarter point and returned its "bias" to neutral ?- and gave little sign of what it planned to do at its next meeting on August 24. TIME senior economics reporter Bernard Baumohl says that?s because Greenspan himself doesn?t know. "If the economy starts to slow down ?- and there are scattered indications that it?s beginning to ?- chances are he won?t raise again," he says...
Take a deep breath, everybody -? the stock market may be about to blow its own bubble. Everybody knows that Fed chairman Allan Greenspan is going to raise interest rates by one quarter point, most likely on Wednesday. And everyone?s reasonably sure that the markets, which have been stewing about this for weeks, will take off on the news like a bull outta hell, especially when they read the Fed?s post-meeting comments Wednesday and find no hint of further action. But do they know this rally could be its own worst enemy? "My guess is that...
...right? The wide differences of opinion on matters other than the outlook for interest rates and inflation probably reflect the extent to which the length and strength of the expansion--if it lasts through next February, it will be the longest in U.S. history--have rewritten the rule book for forecasting. For at least two years, economists following conventional models have predicted a slowing of growth and modest rises in unemployment and inflation; the exact opposite has happened. So forecasters must search for new models, and it's anyone's guess who will find the most accurate one. But unless...