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Ironically, what helped start the rally in mid March were upbeat words from Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit about Citigroup's profitable performance during the first two months of 2009. Friday's stock market swoon, traders say, was partly triggered by cautious comments from Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis and JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, who both noted that March was proving to be a more difficult month than either January or February. As Dimon told Bloomberg TV while standing outside the White House after a group of bankers met with President Obama, "This downturn - it's pretty powerful...
...leading economic indicator, and today's loss notwithstanding, big investors may be betting on better news around the corner. "If you believe as I do that we'll be coming out of recession by year end, then this is about the time you would expect to see the start of a cyclical bull market," says Stephen Leuthold, president of Leuthold Group in Minneapolis, a firm with $5 billion in assets. Leuthold has studied stock markets and recessions going back to 1860. "We found that in all but two instances, the stock market began to recover about...
...scores your health on a scale from zero to one: zero if you're dead and one if you're in perfect health. You find out as a result of a treatment where a patient would move up the scale. If you do a hip replacement, the patient might start at .5 and go up to .7, improving by .2. You can assume patients live for an average of 15 years following hip replacements. And .2 times 15 equals three quality-adjusted life years. If the hip replacement costs 10,000 GBP [about...
...Harvard baseball team (2-14) struggled on its spring break tour of Louisiana, picking up a win in its first game, but then finishing with a seven-game losing streak heading into the start of its conference schedule tomorrow...
...Sophomore right-hander Anthony Nutter left in the third inning in his first start of the season for the Crimson. Junior Dan Zailskas then pitched through the seventh, allowing only one run. Douglas went 2-for-3 in the game, knocking in two of Harvard’s four runs...