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...June 30. (After that, any deal would be nibbled to death by powerful interest groups in Congress.) Trade ministers met and remet on the margins of Davos, chivvied into shape by the indefatigable Pascal Lamy, director general of the World Trade Organization. At the end of the week, Susan Schwab, the U.S. Trade Representative, talked optimistically about the chances of a deal. "There's been a real step-up in the level and depth of dialogue," she said. But others doubted whether, given Bush's political weakness, any deal - especially one that further reduced U.S. subsidies to its farmers, which...
Investors may be sensing a trap. Daily stock trades at Charles Schwab fell 9% in August. That month investors poured money into stocks globally but withdrew $4 billion more than they put into U.S.-focused mutual funds. The figures for September were expected to show only modest improvement...
...time to lighten up on energy, basic materials and other economy- sensitive stocks, says Liz Ann Sonders, chief investment strategist at Schwab. She is shifting into slowdown stalwarts like health care and consumer staples. But she is also heavy in technology shares, which she believes have fallen so far as to be bargains in any economic climate...
...been on Wall Street since the 1970s and have been popular with institutional investors like pension funds since the tech bubble burst in 2000. In the past few years, the run-of-the-mill investing public has started to catch on while fund companies like Vanguard, Janus and Charles Schwab have beefed up quant offerings...
...knows exactly how many there are--is that marital status can affect the amount of support that adults with disabilities receive from federal aid programs administered by the states. "People who might otherwise be interested in marriage don't want to risk losing their benefits," says Dr. William Schwab of Madison, Wis., who has worked as a consultant on sexuality issues for the National Down Syndrome Society...