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...more sensible explanation for the panicked reaction in other markets to the tailspin in Shanghai is that it was simply an excuse to take some money off the table. The Dow Jones industrial average, for example, had recently hit all-time highs, having gone up for five straight years as U.S. corporate profits soared. There hadn't been a single day in nearly four years in which U.S. stocks had fallen even 2%, an unusually long absence of volatility. Likewise, markets from India to Singapore to Russia had been on a historic tear. Against this backdrop, China's sudden return...
...Last season, following a sweep at home to the Tigers and Quakers, the Crimson was swept the next weekend by the Bears and Bulldogs, sending the team deeper into a tailspin that lasted eight games and only ended with a win in the season finale against Columbia...
...economy is overextended. "For the moment it looks like there is only marginal overheating," he says. That's very different from the situation in 2000, when massive overinvestment in technology around the world created the Internet bubble. When that popped, it sent global financial markets and economies into a tailspin. Today, though, Cotis sees the issue as "an idiosyncratic problem in the U.S. spilling over only moderately to the rest of the world." But he adds: "We need to watch what happens very carefully...
...jobs over the past eight years. The 555-seat, double-decker A380 is not just another airplane. It is one of those bet-the-company ventures, so beloved by the airline industry, which either succeed spectacularly - as the Boeing 747 did - or risk sending the whole firm into a tailspin. Mechanically at least, the A380 works: Airbus has been conducting successful test flights for over a year. Horstmann, the Munich bank analyst, reckons there's an 80% chance that Airbus will be able to work through this crisis and bounce back in a couple of years. "But there...
...record and sprinted to four wins in its first five Ivy games. But after squandering a six-point lead in the final minute against Princeton on Feb. 10–a game the Tigers won on a Noah Savage buzzer beater–the Crimson went into a tailspin, losing its next six games and surrendering its title hopes...