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Sheila James Kuehl, a member of Harvard's Board of Overseers, won the Democratic primary in her California state senate district by a 2-to-1 margin Tuesday night...
...dust settled, everybody was surprised by the size of Al Gore's blowout victory over the former U.S. senator from New Jersey. Projections revealed a clean sweep for Gore among the 13 Super Tuesday states, including delegate-rich California, New York and Ohio, and a surprisingly large margin in Missouri, where Bradley was born and raised...
...seems to know the extent to which Americans are betting their houses on the stock market. Economists contend that people are more likely taking cash out of stocks and buying houses. Yet it would hardly be surprising if the reverse were true. Home-equity rates are comparable to margin rates at about 9.5%. They're easy to tap and fully tax deductible regardless of investment income. That last point is big because hot stocks today don't throw off dividend income. You may be better off in the short run tapping your home-equity line than margining your brokerage account...
...vacation. But in some cases--a fast-growing share, I'd wager--it's about people leveraging bets in the stock market in pursuit of their million. No one knows how much has been borrowed to play the market, but this has been a hot issue since margin debt at brokerage firms soared in recent months to $244 billion, equal to a record 1.4% of the market value of U.S. public companies. Most firms will lend investors as much as 50% of the value of their securities. The interest on such margin loans is fully deductible as long...
...Since his wide defeat in last week's Washington State beauty contest, Bradley has stumped all week long in New York, finally garnering some headlines. For his pains, Bradley shaved 10 points off Gore's lead in the state over the weekend, but still trails by a 30 percent margin in the Zogby daily tracking poll. That's a gap that even Bradley's pal Michael Jordan would be unable to jump, and, in that light, MSNBC reported Monday that aides said the ex-senator was already planning his concession speech. At this point, it seems all he can hope...