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Over at his healthy garmentmaker, Supreme International, "there's been no cancellation of orders," says Feldenkreis, "and there has been no notice that the situation is getting worse at the retail level. We are not projecting a slowdown in our sales." The domestic retailers to which Supreme International sells do not seem alarmed. If anything, the Asian debacle is working to their advantage: Feldenkreis, who buys 85% of his clothing and raw materials from Asia, says the crisis there has actually reduced his costs. Absent traditional warning signs, what is he supposed...
...customers at such a low price that we cannot compete. We're shipping a container of a million latex gloves about every other month." The company has shuttered two offices in Latin America and has temporarily shelved plans for expansion. De Cespedes says he sees signs of a slowdown domestically and in exports. "You sense it from something as simple as accounts receivable," he says. On average it used to take 38 days for customers to send the checks to pay for the products they ordered. Recently the wait has increased to 45 days...
...wrong about rates. If I'm right, though, the smart loan is one without closing costs. The time to buy down your rate by paying points and fees is when market rates are poised to trend up, and that won't be until after a recession or severe slowdown...
...into sixth gear. Now, after a summer of turbulence, they have become convinced that the economy won't weather the quick downshift. They are jettisoning the stocks and bonds of any companies that could stumble if the decade-old expansion turns to recession. But what happens if that severe slowdown doesn't hit? What if the Fed won't let it happen and moves aggressively to cut rates? Then Wall Street will have created the same sort of bargains that it does when it occasionally unloads drug stocks because of potential government regulation, or when it shuns tech stocks because...
...summer's slowdown has forced Zhu to eat humble pie, few are gloating. In the long run the success of the reforms is simply too important for China and the world--including American investors and the U.S. government. The obstacles are immense. The Asian crisis came at a bad time, but many of the other problems are home grown, starting with a pervasive climate of corruption and a lack of basic business know...