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...bankers are deluded and the IPO will crash and burn--but the current thinking on the Street is that it won't have trouble finding buyers. Another is that the financial types who've been crying crisis have been crying wolf. But the housing market is in its worst slump since the Depression. Some debt markets have completely stopped functioning. The overindebted American consumer is showing signs of great stress...
Racing between OPEC meetings in Vienna, Saudi Arabia's powerful oil minister Ali Al-Naimi told a reporter that the cartel was "determined" to keep the price of oil at around $25 a barrel, rather than risk a slump in the market by boosting its production...
...given us that kind of spirit and energy off the bench when he’s been in there.” Meanwhile, the veteran inside-out combo of Drew Housman and Evan Harris, the team’s top two returning scorers, continued their midseason slump. Housman, returning to the starting lineup after six games relieving rookie T.J. Carey, who was sidelined with a head injury, struggled, managing only two points and committing four turnovers. After scoring in double digits in 12 of his first 14 games, Housman hasn’t topped eight since...
...NEWS Finally the front runner, John McCain wins Florida and breaks his fund-raising slump with more than $1 million in online donations the next...
...Romney's private-sector experience, McCain's almost quaint message of fiscal conservatism - he repeats the line "If only we could cut spending" to the point of parody - resonated among the many voters who were looking for answers to Florida's economic slump. Fifty percent of those who turned out Tuesday said that the economy was their most important issue, and McCain won those voters by 38% to 35%. Explains Steve Schmidt, a senior McCain adviser, "People understand the difference between a very good salesman and a commander in chief...