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...Stock-market bears are not universal, but they have sharp teeth, last month nicking 25% from B-A-B's share price after the company said same-store sales would increase just 2% or 3%, compared with a 13.8% sales increase in last year's first half. The stock recently regained some ground, to around $24 a share. "We overestimated," says Clark, explaining that last year's muscular performance was unsustainable. Clark thinks earnings could still rise 26% to 32% in 2005--great for most companies but ordinary compared with last year's 163% jump...
...been in no mood to listen to words of caution, even from well-known seers like Joseph Granville. When Granville issued his famous "sell everything" recommendation on Jan. 6, 1981, the Dow dropped 23.8 points in a single day. This year Granville issued The Warning, a book predicting a stock-market crash comparable to the disaster of 1929. Since the book appeared in September, the Dow has climbed 222 points. --By Charles P. Alexander. Reported by Raji Samghabadi/New York
...every year. And yet, China's people have gained room to maneuver, especially in pursuit of their livelihood. That has set off shock waves--huge income disparities and corruption--that could threaten party control. By official accounts, there were 58,000 protests in 2003, as workers, peasants and even stock-market investors fought everything from corruption to overtaxation. China can't stop the outbursts, but it won't let anyone use those grievances to challenge party rule...
Today AIG operates in 130 countries, has a stock-market value of $143 billion and nearly $100 billion of annual revenue. It's had a staggering transformation from the obscure firm that Greenberg took command of in 1967 and took public two years later with just $13 million of annual profit--a figure that swelled to $11 billion by last year. While building AIG in the 1970s and '80s, Greenberg often was the only foreigner in sight in politically combustible countries like Romania, Iran, Vietnam and other parts of the Far East, and would draw a curious crowd just crossing...
This is the $64 billion question of the 21st century's first boom: Are today's real estate revelers partying like it's 1999--just before the stock-market bubble burst? To Edward Leamer, economist and director of the UCLA Anderson Forecast, the housing market, especially in hot coastal areas, is a bubble just as ripe for popping. "We've had a more than doubling of housing prices in the past three years here in Southern California, for instance, and there's no fundamental driving it," he says. "There isn't some big crush of people coming to California. That...