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Even more worrying for the long-term outlook is the rush to cancel orders for new ships. Clarksons of London, the world's largest shipbroker, announced that new orders had dropped from 378 vessels in October 2007 to just 37 last October. In November, New York?based Genco Shipping and Trading wrote off a $53 million deposit in order to get out of a $530 million deal to buy six new vessels, freeing up liquidity and strengthening the firm's "ability to act opportunistically," a Genco spokesman said. As companies pull back to protect their bottom lines, many are simply...
...increasing wariness of spending and investing comes with good reason. Throughout this past year, bad investments in ventures and funds have cost the couple a hefty 50,000 yuan (roughly $7,300) - or about one-third of their annual income - something inconceivable in the popular mind when the economic outlook was much rosier...
Amid the gravest economic and financial crisis in decades, the outlook for Christmas was never very bright. Some 54% of Americans polled by market-research firm TNS Retail Forward said they planned to spend less money on Christmas gifts this month than they did one year ago. The pullback is not just hitting middle market retailers, such as Dillards and Macys, but upscale stores like Saks Fifth Ave and Nordstrom as well. Saks, for example, saw same-stores sales decline 11.5% in the third quarter, followed by a 5.2% decrease in November...
...older, wiser, and Ukrainian Greek Catholic, Peisker says she plans to return to the university in Lviv next year to coordinate a master’s program in ecumenical studies, specifically on interchurch relations.THE WORLD AS A CLASSROOMChanequa N. Campbell ’09 says she had a different outlook on her year abroad from the outset. She chose not to write a thesis and had no prior relation with the two countries in which she would spend a semester each. “I really wanted to build my study abroad experience around traveling,” she says...
...were moving to placate protesting students amid rising fears that violence could break out across France. Given the defiant nature of French student protests over the years - including weeks of violent demonstrations over a new youth labor contract in 2006 - concern is growing in France that the dismal economic outlook could push the current anti-reform protests into the kind of wild insurrection that has rocked Greece...