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...abundance of good news seemed to explain the market's explosive performance. The economy seemed far from robust as industrial production fell 0.4% last month. Though hopes for a settlement of the war vanished quickly & after flickering briefly Friday morning, investors found enough to cheer about in falling oil prices and lower interest rates. With institutional and individual investors still being enticed off the sidelines, analysts speculate that the market's dramatic rise may not be over...
...sooner or later the global economy will have to deal with many problems that arrived before the gulf crisis. Among them: the fall of real estate prices in many countries, the banking crisis in the U.S., the crumbling Soviet economy and rising tensions in global trade. The return to robust economic growth is likely to be very gradual, especially in the U.S. Says Lyle Gramley, chief economist for the Mortgage Bankers Association: "This may be a recovery that still feels like a recession." One bright spot is that as long as the U.S. can avoid a catastrophic recession that could...
Brahms: The Three Violin Sonatas, Itzhak Perlman, violin; Daniel Barenboim, piano (Sony Classical). There are half a dozen or so great sonatas for violin and piano; Brahms wrote three of them. Perlman and Barenboim -- the latter back at the keyboard, where he belongs -- give them robust yet sensitive readings...
...they are Japanese, they want to buy the American companies that make it. Foreign investors realize that in the chancy business of manufacturing popular art, Hollywood has an ever tighter grip on the world's pulse. Since 1985 the overseas take from U.S. films has doubled. Movies represent a robust portion of an entertainment industry that registers an annual $5 billion or so trade surplus...
...days. The star has dismissed Leigh's contentions, saying, "I don't want to give a third-grade journalist any credibility." He can hardly be held responsible for his kin's sins; the other allegations suggest that he took the rough passage, common in males, from boorish youth to robust maturity...