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Attempts to rectify a College-wide slowdown in e-mail service over recent days culminated last night in a total shutdown of the central FAS Unix system for repair work...
...finally time to invest in Japan? There's virtually no growth. Bank lending is contracting, and jobs are scarce. The greater Asia slowdown promises to deepen Japan's woes. "This is a catastrophe," says Carl Weinberg at High Frequency Economics. At a conference with senior Japanese executives, notes Allen Sinai of Primark Decision Economics, "I was absolutely flabbergasted by the pessimism." Picking market bottoms is never easy. When they occur, pessimism and words like catastrophe are usually in evidence, as is some element of resolve. It's all there in Japan today. The question isn't whether things will...
...consensus on Wall Street and in Washington, where, in both places, it is undeniably lucrative to be bullish, is that Monday was the mistake; Tuesday set things right. The believers in this sort of "new economy" school see the sell-off as an overreaction to an economic slowdown in Asia, a development that heralds only a modest drag on the U.S. economy and the earnings of U.S. companies...
...even if that chain of events never occurs, some analysts believe the U.S. is headed for a recession, or severe slowdown, in 1998, all on its own. If they are right, Monday's plunge may have been the first shot across the proverbial bow, with others to follow. Those who so quickly dismissed the sell-off and are now boasting of buying at the bottom may find they were wrong...
Hong Kong will have a harder time divining any benefits from its predicament. Analysts expect the roiled markets to spell high interest rates, sending the Chinese enclave's crucial property market into a tailspin, leading to economic slowdown, lost jobs and continuing trouble for other nations in the region, particularly Japan, which has a big investment in Hong Kong and other Southeast Asian real estate...