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...genetic testing is that information affecting your future health is as valuable to insurers as it is to doctors, but for very different--and disturbing--reasons. Knowing that you are susceptible to breast cancer or diabetes would be invaluable to an HMO looking for ways to screen out riskier candidates and thus keep costs down--and profits...
Beyond that, we have just begun to unwind a decade of indifference to risk. Since the early '90s, investors have been migrating to riskier assets like high-flying stocks and emerging-market securities in search of higher returns--leaving bonds and bank certificates of deposit behind. Now the inherent risk behind those high returns is becoming obvious, and the trend is reversing. This is the so-called flight to safety that you've heard about, and it's occurring at all levels--from fund investors who find they aren't so comfortable having everything they're worth tied...
...error occurred while processing this directive]Fortune Investor Data And for once, US aggression is actually heightening investors' jitters: Taking on terrorists is decidedly riskier than the usual Saddam-battering because it makes Americans targets all over the world, especially in finance/Islam hotspots like Indonesia and Malaysia. "It's added to the feeling of uncertainty," says McLean...
Kofi Annan may feel like he has the raw end of the deal Wednesday. While his appointed deputy, Jayantha Dhanapala, touches down in Baghdad to head up the diplomatic posse that will enter the long-disputed presidential palaces, the secretary general embarks on a rather riskier mission: Selling the U.N. in Washington. And Annan, ever the consummate diplomat, will be making his own pointed diplomatic gesture -- by steering well clear of Capitol Hill...
...betting that MCI shareholders will find his all-cash bid more attractive than Ebbers' higher but riskier offer of stock. Most find cash more fetching. The strategy will force Lee to borrow to the teeth to finance the MCI buyout. The resulting company would have $40 billion in revenues and an unbelievable $54 billion in debt. Lee tried to assure investors that the combined companies would throw off enough cash to cover the interest payments. But the mere thought of that debt burden helped knock nearly $4 off the price of GTE stock last week. GTE finished trading...