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...concerned. "The Russian legal system is not a credible one, and that has a visible impact on the safety of investments in the country," says Karina Litvack, the head of corporate governance and socially responsible investing at the London investment firm F&C Asset Management, who urges investors to "tread carefully" before buying the stock. That's sound advice. The gap between comforting words and troubling deeds is one reason why there is a deep ambivalence in Europe, the U.S. and Asia about Russia's entire energy policy at a time of growing concern over the security of future energy...
...Thousands of people thronged Budapest's old cobblestoned streets wearing red, white and green boutonnieres, tossing red, white and green ribbons into passing cars. Then gradually the crowd began to march. A scared communist official told an American businessman: "The earth is moving." The earth moved to the tread of a million feet in Hungary last week, and a satellite which had been blindly spinning in the Soviet orbit for 11 years suddenly swung out of its gravitational course. It had never happened before. As the world looked on, incredulous, a people armed principally with courage and determination...
...once a bull market becomes this obvious it pays to tread lightly. Speculative money--mainly from hedge funds--has been pouring into the metal, and once something goes wrong, it will pour out just as fast. "We're getting a little nervous," concedes Anton Pil at JP Morgan Private Bank. But forecasts like DiGeorgia's are not all that outlandish. We may be in a modest inflationary cycle, and if you adjust for the past 26 years of inflation, gold should be at $2,150 already. Potentially, there is a lot of ground to make...
...Notorious Bettie Page, starring Gretchen Mol. Not to mention countless websites and, right now, nearly 1,600 products for sale on eBay. (Alfred Einstein has only 309.) For just $9.99 you can get a Large Bettie Page Red Whip Cloth Wall Banner; for $6.99, a Bettie Page Don't Tread on Me Metal Candle Tin & Candle, which "features an image of Bettie Page in red lingerie and licking a whip." Who'll bid $19.99 for the Bettie Page Retro Cincher Corset Lot? ("Bring out your inner Bettie!") Or a Bettie Page wristwatch "and the band is made of genuine leather...
...Yahoo has to tread very carefully,” Fleischmann said. “If they admit they know the extent of the problem, they could get sued...