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...FOURTH QUARTER...
...00—Third quarter ends, and we're still sitting on a 35-7 Crimson lead. You have to wonder about the depth of the Harvard defense that this game is not a closer game. The Crimson squad is Harvard's first line and the White is second line, and this is shaping up to be a blowout...
...Bernanke and Paulson were doing what they thought was necessary to prevent what they viewed as a possible catastrophic failure of the national and perhaps global banking system. If Merrill Lynch had been left on its own to suffer huge fourth quarter losses, it might have faced a fate like that of the departed Lehman. Morgan Stanley (MS) nearly had the same set of problems until the Japanese financial house Mitsubishi UFJ agreed to honor a commitment to put $9 billion into the U.S. investment firm. Whether their presumption was right or not, it appears that Paulson and Bernanke believed...
That's nothing like the quarter-to-half-point premium banks had gotten used to in the early 2000s, but it's still well down from 1.4 percentage points at the beginning of the year. Not to mention the 4.6-point gap it hit in the worst of the market freakout last fall...
...budgets to accommodate a projected 30 percent drop in the endowment for the fiscal year. HMC’s previous director for real estate, David Ferrero, stepped down in Aug. 2007, according to money management newspaper Pensions & Investments. HMC announced in February that it would lay off roughly a quarter of its 200 employees, mostly support staff, in an attempt to “re-balance and re-engineer the organization.” Real estate has traditionally been a difficult asset class to valuate and provides very limited liquidity. According to a University statement, real estate investments currently make...