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...that stock valuations look cheap," says Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist at Standard & Poor's. "But if the earnings portion of the price-to-earnings ratio is in question, then how can you say stocks are attractive...
...bright kid,” Fraser says. “He doesn’t miss much, so you can’t really catch him off guard.”But Carroll suffered a muscle injury last season and sat out for a considerable portion of the year. As a result, he has only one game under his belt coming into this season. But his lack of experience is not a concern for Donato. “Even though he didn’t get to have the benefit of games last year, [Carroll] had a half a year...
...much of this year, New York City has largely avoided the economic downturn that has hit a good portion of the rest of the country. Unemployment is still a mild 5.8%, compared with 6.1% nationally. That's because many of the problems the U.S. economy has run into - plunging housing prices, rising foreclosures, shrinking auto industry jobs - are mostly absent in New York City...
...Four years ago, a significant portion of the American population believed that two social issues—abortion rights and the rights of same-sex couples to wed—were sufficiently important to the country’s future that they turned out to vote in record numbers. While we wish, like many sensible Americans, that these two issues were not so divisive in the political arena, we believe that Senator Obama and his campaign have largely transcended what has been thus far an utterly pointless, divisive, and unnecessary social divide...
...Friday afternoon at Key's alma mater, psychology student Michael Hempseed is rushing off to his part-time supermarket job, while elsewhere on campus a large portion of the student body has begun a raucous, migratory end-of-semester party. The days of universities as hotbeds of political dissent are over - in New Zealand, at least. Generally speaking, the main concerns of today's students are drinking and study - in that order, says Hempseed: "It feels like we're missing out on something." The 23-year-old will be voting Labour for two reasons. One, the economy will need special...