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...Funds rate has inched up 1.75%, to 6.50%, since June of last year. David Ranson of Wainwright Economics in Boston looked at 45 years of data and discovered that after a period when the Fed raised rates at least 1%, the market did not respond well for the next year. The Standard & Poor's 500 index has had an average gain of about 13% since 1955. Yet historically the year after the Fed has raised rates, the S&P actually produces below-average returns of about 8%. Then the market gets a big boost the second year out--assuming...
...Ranson agrees that a defensive investment strategy--which would include large-cap tech and drug stocks--is best if you're planning to stay in the market. But he advises being very cautious as the recent rate hikes filter down. With the Dow down for the year, NASDAQ basically flat and the S&P up only 2.5%, Ranson says investors may get better overall returns from cash rather than stocks. His suggestion: wait until 2001 to invest more heavily, or at least until there's solid evidence that the Fed's moves have actually succeeded in cooling the economy...
...Matthew H. Ranson...
...cold was especially hard on the poor. In New York City, 16 people, many of them homeless, died from hypothermia over the long Christmas weekend. Detroit's Benjamin Ranson, 49, lived in a car and died in it, curled up between bucket seats. In Tipple Hill, W. Va., Takeisha and Stacey Craighead, ages seven and five, were killed when a coal-burning stove set fire to their flimsy house. Retiree George Toomer, 77, who lived alone in Akron (-14°), locked the house keys in his car and froze to death in his garage...
Cukor juggles stock character types and familiar plot complications with playful expertise. Henry and Augusta, along with her lover Wordsworth, a fortune-telling black African, wind up on a mock spy adventure on the Orient Express as Augusta delivers an illegal $100,000 ranson to Visconti (her wildly romantic first lover) held captive in Africa. Fortified by the belief that love conquers all, Aunt Augusta cajoles, lies, steals, blackmails, and is deported in the course of her mission. When she finally does deliver the ransom, she collapses hysterically in her now aged lover's arms only to find that...