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...Back in the capital city, other pillars of the Thaksinomics miracle may be weakening as well. Aggressive lending policies by Thailand's state-owned banks, together with tax breaks to developers, have fueled a Bangkok real estate boom among Thai buyers. But some foreign investors who rushed into Thailand to snap up foreclosed properties after the 1997 crash are now selling, convinced that the market has topped. "Three years ago we had properties on our books that no one would touch," says a Bangkok-based real estate investor. "Now we are getting offers you wouldn't believe...
...investor's home in a gated country-club community just off the Las Vegas strip is also the official address of more than 80 Slusser-related business ventures with names like 481TL LLC, CCHDDNV Inc., N15SB LLC and QEAT4 LLC. With their principals scattered across the country, the companies have the appearance of being tax-avoidance devices, just like the synfuels scheme. What, if anything, does Earthco's synfuel process do? Calls for information to Earthco and its employees were fruitless. When TIME reached Slusser, he promptly hung up the telephone after hearing the writer identify himself. A call...
Each strategy is appropriate--for the right investor. You might even do best with a few quality high-yield stocks. Why? It's difficult to find a proven stock fund that yields more than 2%, yet you can get yields of 4% or more with shares of Dow Chemical (4.1%) or FleetBoston (4.7%). Individual stocks also let you sidestep fund fees. What you give up is diversification, which provides shelter from things like Kodak's 72% dividend cut last month...
...just hope this doesn't sour fund investors," say Sheldon Jacobs, editor of the newsletter No-Load Fund Investor. "Whatever the problems, mutual funds are still better than almost any alternative. If you think mutual funds lack integrity, try dealing with brokers, insurance agents, annuities salesmen or hedge funds." In other words, this black eye will heal, and maybe now industry executives, as Spitzer might say, will finally get it. --With reporting by Barbara Kiviat/New York City
...Suddenly, improbably, the Japanese economy?and its stock market?are hot. Since April, the Nikkei 225 stock index has jumped more than 35%, to about 10,300, making it one of the world's best performers so far this year. Foreign investors have rushed in, becoming net buyers of Japanese stocks for 22 consecutive weeks through mid-September, pumping just under $48 billion into the market since May. "It has been such a dramatic change in investor psychology," says Masaaki Kanno, chief economist at JP Morgan in Tokyo. But considering Japan's history of false-start recoveries over the past...