Word: nearly
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...anticipate any problems in the near future," said Chen. "This is the first time we had to run off the auxiliary transmitter since we installed the one in Boston...
...G.O.P. in Iowa's house and senate. The numbers are similar in California and New Mexico. And those who hand-deliver the letters to Bush leave even more love sick than when they came, quoting passages from his second inaugural address and describing in near mythic terms his intellect, candor and vision. "There is a twinkle in his eye," gushes Iowa state representative Chuck Larson, who led the draft movement in his early-caucus state. "He's a giant walking onto this playing field...
...doesn't take a wing-tipped M.B.A. to spot the flaw here--much of the world is in or near recession, demand for personal computers is slowing, so are corporate profits. Amid that sluggishness, the Labor Department said Friday that unemployment inched higher in February--to 4.4%, from 4.3% the previous month. And the prices of raw materials like oil and copper, on average, are at their lowest in decades. This is not the stuff of sudden price hikes in consumer items. "It's beyond me how anyone can be worried about inflation," economist Allen Sinai at Primark Decision Economics...
...really just reading tea leaves, projecting what is famously difficult to project. For inflation to take off, Japan and the rest of Asia will have to wake from a deep sleep before Europe or the U.S. starts to nod off. Interest rates in Japan, by the way, dropped to near zero last week. Inflation? The government is prodding people to buy something, anything, to keep prices from sinking. Even if there is a global recovery, competition aided by technology advances will serve as the price police...
What can you do? Rates may be near a peak. If so, this is a good time to put any sideline cash into stocks or bonds, both of which will benefit if rates stabilize or head lower. If you can put off borrowing money, do so. If not, the risk is that rates keep moving up, in which case stocks and bonds are vulnerable and your loan gets even more expensive. Rising rates smack growth stocks the hardest. So one hedge is to shift from stocks that typically trade at 30 to 70 times earnings (many tech stocks) to value...