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...China's two mainland capitals of capitalism, it's raining money. The relentless increase in stock prices in both Shanghai and Shenzhen - the former has tripled in value in just the last 18 months - has triggered a stampede of companies in China to offer their shares to a public that has a ravenous appetite for them. Astonishingly, according to a forecast just out from Price Waterhouse Coopers, a global consulting firm, the two main equity markets in China will raise $52 billion in capital this year in initial public offerings (IPOS), more than double the amount forecast at the start...
...China's regulators, the more important issue is this: Having overhauled the nation's laws regulating its stock markets and successfully enticed some of the country's blue chip companies to issue stock at home, what happens now if a crash comes? Some investors in China, in fact, are already miffed at the government, saying that the new supply of shares coming to the mainland's markets - regional banks such as the Bank of Nanjing are next in the IPO line - are starting to put downward pressure on equity prices. As far as the authorities are concerned...
...worse than most people would have predicted on Sept. 12, 2001? There's been no successful second attack here in the U.S.--and very limited terrorist successes in Europe or even in the Middle East. We've had 5 1/2 years of robust economic growth, low unemployment and a stock-market recovery. Social indicators in the U.S. are mostly stable or improving--abortions, teenage births and teenage drug use are down and education scores are up a bit. It may well be that no other country has ever been stronger than the U.S. today--and it may well be that...
CORRECTION APPENDED Although Harvard released a definitive statement last week condoning certain disputed stock holdings and denying a student group's proposal to more closely examine Sudan-linked investments, those students are refusing to back down in their demands...
According to the University's most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Harvard still indirectly owns $14.4 million worth of stock in the three companies it has divested from and $11.8 million in other companies that are facing heavy scrutiny for their actions in Sudan...