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...odds that tens of thousands of people will die from the flu are low. Advances in medicine and public health policy have made a big difference in the ability to monitor emerging serious illnesses. The fact that the new disease seems not to be terribly virulent outside of Mexico is another factor that supports the opinion that this will not be a major epidemic. However, in the minds of some analysts, the world can still look forward to trillions of dollars in financial losses and an economic depression...
...that is a big plus. High trading volume lets them get in and out of GE shares with ease. And, GE's stock is volatile for a mega-cap company. Since the beginning of the year, the share of the conglomerate have been as high as $17 and as low as $5.87. For a firm with a market value of $128 billion, trading in that big a range is extraordinary...
...given day based on information about whether the government will have to add to its $13o billion commitment to the firm and news about its desperate attempts to auction off its divisions to get money back to taxpayers. The stock is remarkably volatile. It has been as low as $.33 and as high as $1.74 since the beginning of the year...
...World Bank report estimated that a severe pandemic could reduce the world's GDP by 4.8% - but we depend on international trade now for countless necessities, from generic medicines to surgical gloves. The just-in-time production systems embraced by companies like Wal-Mart - where inventories are kept as low as possible to cut waste and boost profit - mean that we don't have stockpiles of most things. Supply chains for food, medicines and even the coal that generates half our electricity are easily disruptable, with potentially catastrophic results. Though we'll likely hear calls to close the border with...
...that were once virtually untouchable militia havens such as Sadr City in Baghdad and the port city of Basra in the south of Iraq. The Mahdi Army dispatched gunmen nightly during the height of the sectarian violence. Yet Mohsen believes the odds of such a situation unfolding again are low, at least in Baghdad - given the myriad checkpoints, blast wall cordons and Iraqi security forces on the street, including Sunni volunteer fighters from the ranks of the Awakening movement, a confederation of tribesmen who've been working with U.S. forces since 2007. (See TIME's photos of Baghdad's revival...