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...1780s, the placebo effect can work all manner of curative magic against all manner of ills. Give a patient a sugar pill but call it an analgesic, and pain may actually go away. Parkinson's disease patients who underwent a sham surgery that they were told would boost the low dopamine levels responsible for their symptoms actually experienced a dopamine bump. Newberg describes a cancer patient whose tumors shrank when he was given an experimental drug, grew back when he learned that the drug was ineffective in other patients and shrank again when his doctor administered sterile water but said...
...quelled a major rally in Treasuries as investors who had been flocking to the safe haven of government paper amid the global recession questioned whether Treasuries had become too expensive. In the last four months of 2008, yields (which decline as prices rise) dropped from 4% to a low...
...years. In the early 1990s observers in Japan argued that 10-year Japan government-bond yields of 3.5% could not persist for long. That was when the government debt-to-GDP ratio was around 50%. It now stands at 150% and 10-year yields are 1.36% (having gone as low as 60 basis points in the interim...
...about a third. The lion's share of the market will be taken by China's two largest equipment vendors, Huawei and ZTE, which will between them share about half of the contracts, projections by BDA show. BDA says Huawei and ZTE will gain market share because of their "low prices, competitive 3G products and government support for domestic vendors...
...equity shift follows reports last month of Harvard attempting to sell $1.5 billion of private equity, only to reject buyers’ offers as too low. The move would have marked one of the largest-ever sales of a private equity portfolio, according to the Wall Street Journal...