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...quarter-century after his debut feature, The Element of Crime, won the Technical Prize at Cannes - and after showing Europa/Zentropa (Jury Prize, or third place) in 1991, Breaking the Waves (Grand Jury Prize, or second place) in 1996, and Dancer in the Dark (finally, the Palme d'Or) in 2000 - von Trier presents his eighth film in the competition. Antichrist is both his most familiar film - a horror film of a soul gone mad, as in Psycho and The Shining - and one of his most transgressive, which is reviewer's jargon for gross-out gruesome...
...category went fresh data on initial unemployment claims - they rose more than expected, dampening excitement about the mild moderation of the week before - and the housing market. On Tuesday the National Association of Realtors reported that the median-priced single-family home sold for 14% less in the first quarter than it did during the same time period a year ago. The next day, housing-tracker RealtyTrac reported a 32% year-over-year jump in foreclosure filings. And yet sales of homes in certain markets - southern California, southern Florida, Nevada - are spiking. A sign of the bottom...
After slashing two-thirds of its publicly traded stock holdings in the fourth quarter of last year, Harvard has substantially reshuffled its equity investments and expanded its emerging and foreign markets portfolio, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission disclosure report released last week.Though the disclosed assets represent only a small fraction of the University’s total holdings, the report provides a glimpse of how Harvard Management Company—the group that oversees the University’s multi-billion dollar endowment—is navigating this year’s tumultuous and markedly changed financial landscape...
...Charging people a dollar for a meal or for some modest item off a retail shelf may seem like a gimmick to pick up a penny a share for the next quarter. It is a good deal more than that. When a dollar is all that someone can spend, that person doesn't care if his purchase increases the company's earnings...
...three months ended April 30, about equal to the profit it made in the same period in 2008. Revenue fell 0.6% to $93.47 billion from $94.04 billion a year earlier. Highlighting the growing importance of markets such as India, nearly one-fourth of Wal-Mart's sales for the quarter - 22.7% - came from its international division...