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...million Amount Amtrak has requested in federal loan guarantees to avert a shutdown...
...billion Amount United Airlines has requested in federal loan guarantees to ensure its survival...
...dollar is falling. Stocks are in a swoon. Foreigners are calling home capital. Corporate insiders are dumping shares by the bucketful. Individuals are redeeming mutual-fund shares. Pension funds are getting socked. Banks are taking loan-portfolio hits. This is all a direct result of the spreading collapse of confidence in U.S. companies and the executives and board members who run them--a crisis that threatens to untrack a fragile economic recovery. Speaking at an economic summit in Canada, President Bush said he was "concerned about the economic impact of the fact that there are some corporate leaders who have...
...latest film Dark Water, a tale of urban anxiety, domestic agony and spookily bad plumbing. Stressed-out single mother Yoshimi Matsubara (Hitomi Kuroki) and her five-year-old daughter, Ikuko (Rio Kanno) move into an apartment building with a serious humidity problem and a demonic elevator on loan from Poltergeist. They stick around even after a sinister water stain begins expanding on the ceiling and they learn that their building was once inhabited by a young girl who mysteriously disappeared. This lost girl happens to be the owner of the red bag that Yoshimi keeps throwing out?and that reappears...
...stampeding into high-yield--or junk-bond--funds; so far this year, the public has poured $9 billion into these buckets of risky corporate debt, nearly half as much as the money attracted by all stock funds combined last year. And I wouldn't get within spitting distance of loan-participation funds like Van Kampen Prime Rate Income Trust, which hold business loans made by banks. These funds typically charge big fees while allowing you to sell your shares a measly four times a year. What good is a slightly higher yield if you can't get your money...