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While the Treasury auction grabbed headlines, corporate bonds are doing equally amazing things: the average yield on lower-quality investment-grade corporate bonds - triple-B rated - is hovering around 10%, an unusually rich 7.5-percentage-point spread over Treasury bonds of similar maturity. (That spread has tripled over the past year.) Or consider junk bonds, as measured by Merrill Lynch's High Yield bond index, which yield a jaw-dropping 22%. Of course, junk bonds come from the riskiest borrowers, and a deep recession could drive up the default rate among those companies. But current lofty yields imply investor expectations...
...Pacific and parts of Southeast Asia. More than 175,000 kids and teens drown annually - 480 per day - with children under 5 at the greatest risk. Keeping kids close to home is no guarantee of safety, since in or around the house is where most drownings take place. In lower-income countries, the greatest danger is in open bodies of water or in water-collection systems. In richer countries, swimming pools and the ocean are the most dangerous. Using flotation devices, providing effective resuscitation, fencing swimming pools and removing or covering water hazards are all recommended...
...Countries like Poland and the Czech Republic oppose deep cuts in carbon-dioxide emissions, arguing that they do not account for their lower levels of earnings. But Sarkozy has warned that the E.U.'s credibility is at stake as it aims to set an example in the run-up to a new global climate pact that will be signed in Copenhagen next year...
...greedy automakers quit crying wolf and lower interest rates? Why let credit-card companies have such high interest rates, too? Crack down on all the offers. We own our house and all our vehicles outright because we had to manage our money. David Leatherman, OTHELLO, WASH...
...biggest number of enslaved population in the entire human history,” said Bales, who is the president and founder of Free the Slaves, the U.S. sister organization of Anti-Slavery International. But, Bales also said, the percentage of the world’s population in slavery is lower than it has ever been, suggesting that battling slavery can be effective. He emphasized that although enslavement is still prevailing in every continent except Antarctica, it is solvable. Within Harvard, there have been recent efforts to respond to the problem of global slavery. This fall, Kelli K. Okuji...