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Some market watchers, though, think the current rally is not the product of more optimism about the economy, just less pessimism. And there's a big difference, they say. In report out Monday from Merrill Lynch, the analysts at that brokerage firm compared the number of trades in stocks that were falling, and the number of trades in stocks that were rising. THey found that most of the activity in the market was happening in stocks that were slumping. Their conclusion: The current market rally is a result of a lack of sellers and not a stampede of buyers. "Sellers...
...Hampshire became the only state that had voted for Bush in 2000 to flip into the Democratic column. The backlash continued in 2006, with more dramatic results. Riding a tide of anti-war opinion, two Democratic challengers upset both of the state's GOP congressmen. Popular Governor John Lynch held onto his seat with 76% of the vote, and Democrats took control of both the state House and Senate, putting the party in charge of both the executive and legislative branches for the first time since the 19th century...
...Detroit “expected to hear a message of humility, remorse and apology. Instead, we heard an arrogant and defiant man who accused the governor, among others, for his downfall.” (Kilpatrick had denied the allegations and likened the media furor around him to a lynch...
...term take on the crisis for Portfolio, with their advance rumored to be as much as $1.6 million. Roger Lowenstein, contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, is writing Six Days That Shook the World for Penguin Press, which examines the week when Lehman Brothers went bankrupt, Merrill Lynch was bought and AIG received a government bailout...
...believe that a Nielsen rating is worth the life of my children or your children. This unethical, illegal lynch mob mentality has to stop." - On receiving death threats against himself and his family (ABC News, March...