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...also yet another episode in a now year-old financial crisis that shows no signs of abating. Paulson's announcement briefly rallied stock markets around the world. But jittery investors kept running for the exits at Seattle-based thrift Washington Mutual and the investment bank Lehman Bros.--although Lehman's earnings announcement on Sept. 10 sent the stock up slightly, despite the revelation of a $3.9 billion quarterly loss...
About 80% of Frannie's debt securities remain in the U.S. The PIMCO Total Return Fund, the biggest bond mutual fund, had its best day ever the Monday after the announcement, rising 1.32%. Fund manager Bill Gross had put two-thirds of its assets in mortgage-backed securities while using the bully pulpit of his widely read monthly commentaries to call for bolder action to help housing...
...makes easier for Russia to further its aim of enhancing its international standing by whatever means necessary. For these reasons, something like the invasion of Georgia was inevitable. Let us now hope that history does not repeat itself. Relations between Russia and the West have always been based on mutual fear rather than cooperation. It seems that this is not going to change. Ignacio O'Dogherty, Madrid...
...sign up more boomer customers--a generation ripe for coverage but still classically in denial about its age--insurers are echoing the "lifestyle" planning that has been so successful in the mutual-fund industry. Only instead of a fund that automatically shifts to conservative investments as you age, they're providing long-term-care insurance that allows you to start small and add coverage as you near the time in life when you'll most likely need it. Allianz, for example, lets you lock in a good-health discount and make adjustments every five years. With MetLife...
...enforced-collaboration model in 2004, linking work at four cancer centers into a consortium managed by PricewaterhouseCoopers and providing them all with patients, tissue samples and a set of targets and goals. "The odds of a cure coming from one center are nil," Giusti says. "You need a mutual fund to fight cancer." From not having a single drug in the pipeline, the MMRF now has 30, half of them in clinical trials. The average lifespan of a multiple-myeloma patient has been extended by three years, to seven...