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...digital camera or a boat to justify financial anxiety. By most estimates sales of light vehicles in the United States in 2009 will drop to about 10 million. Three years ago that number was closer to 16 million. Even if the economy begins to expand at the same rate at which it was in the middle of this decade, the potential car buyer has a long list of reasons to keep...
...recession and this posed a problem for investments in the securities markets. Nevertheless, I had received investment commitments from certain institutional clients and understood that those clients, like all professional investors, expected to see their investments out-perform the market. While I never promised a specific rate of return to any client, I felt compelled to satisfy my clients' expectations, at any cost. I therefore claimed that I employed an investment strategy I had developed, called a "split strike conversion strategy," to falsely give the appearance to clients that I had achieved the results I believed they expected...
...whose stock has dropped at an extraordinary rate, gained 20% which added $15 billion to its market capitalization in just a few hours. The good news from the conglomerate was that it sold $8 billion of bonds under a program backed by the U.S. government. That means GE is very close to its goal of raising the $45 billion it wanted to get from the debt markets this year. GE also benefited when a skeptical analyst said that a recovery in the financial market held a number of benefits...
...Presidential budgets are traditionally a first offer in what has to be one of the highest-stakes negotiations in the world. Obama fully expects to not get everything he wants - his proposal to lower the rate of tax deductions for the wealthy looks to be dead on arrival - just as many moderates will likely have to hold their nose to vote for it. And now that they have the country's financial woes laid out before them, next year they are hoping to take out the knives. "At least this way people see the magnitude of the problem," says Representative...
Since the financial crisis hit Russia late last summer, more than 1.5 million Russians have lost their jobs and the ruble has lost a third of its value. On Friday the State Statistics Service reported that the annualized inflation rate had jumped to 13.9 percent - a four month high. The government predicts that the economy will shrink by 2.2% this year while the cost of buying an average monthly basket of food for an adult male in January was $61.34, up from $53.53 a year earlier. (The average monthly salary in Russia is $490.51, according to state figures...