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...heart proves safe - a high bar - it's expected to hit the market with a $250,000 price tag. Some experts say that Carpentier's direction of the project provides enough reason for hope. "He is a genius in his field and an internationally respected figure, both as a developer of devices as well as a transplant specialist. Carpentier brings a lot of authority and gravitas to this," says Dr. Gardner. "Predicting success would be premature, but the fact this is Carpentier's project increases the chances it may constitute a big breakthrough...
...financial challenges the next Administration may face, perhaps the most dangerous - and least appreciated - is deflation. The stunning decline in the price of oil gets the business headlines - and has a good-news feel as it helps cash-strapped American consumers the most - but the cost of an entire range of commodities has also plunged in the past quarter: copper, gold, nickel and steel have all fallen as global demand has weakened. One popular gauge of commodity prices, the Reuters CRB Index, tumbled 22.3% in October, the biggest drop in the index's 48-year history. (See pictures...
...contracting significantly" in the fourth quarter, as San Francisco Fed president Janet Yellen recently put it, an issue that was practically unthinkable three months ago is now, for the Fed, front and center: the possibility of the U.S. entering a phase of deflation, or protracted declines in the general price level. In its statement accompanying the most recent interest-rate cut, the Fed said, "In light of the declines in the prices of energy and other commodities and weaker prospects for economic activity, [the Fed] expects inflation to moderate...
...There's no question that hard times are ahead. What is harder to determine is how much further stock prices must fall before recession is fully priced into shares, taking into account weakening corporate earnings. In past severe downturns, when the U.S. economy contracted by 2.5% or more, the average price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of S&P 500 index stocks has dipped to as low as 10 (the long-term average P/E is 21). From where we stand today, stocks must drop quite a bit more before they reach this historical nadir. How far? Based on 2008 corporate-earnings...
...estimate, net banking flows into the region, most of them originating in Western Europe, will fall from $219 billion in 2007 to just $74 billion next year. Sweden's Swedbank, which not long ago earned a fifth of its profits from the Baltic region, has seen its stock price halve in the past year over fears of exposure to bad loans, and on Oct. 27 it announced a $1.5 billion rights issue to bolster its finances. Two days later Austria's Erste Bank turned to the state for $3.5 billion, in part because of problems with its banking operations...