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...News of plans by the U.S. and European governments to inject cash into troubled banks helped propel stock markets worldwide to record gains Monday and Tuesday. For the first time in weeks investors dared to hope that the financial meltdown may be abating. But budding optimism in Europe and the U.S. may not travel far. Emerging countries lacking the financial muscle to prop up their economies still face troubles ranging from slowing trade to food shortages. "In many developing countries, the most urgent crisis is not what is happening in financial markets but what has happened in commodity markets," says...
...time to get out the champagne quite yet. Instead, you might keep in mind that one characteristic of such a volatile market is that news, good or bad, gets amplified - and that there will be plenty of news to digest the rest of the week. On Tuesday, bond markets in the U.S. will reopen after having been closed for Columbus Day, and investors will get their first real look since the weekend at how much, if at all, credit has thawed. The rest of the week will bring a slew of economic reports - retail sales, consumer prices, housing starts...
...industrialized nations meet in Washington today to discuss the crisis, Japanese officials in particular are expected to offer up guidance to their Western colleagues. "Japan can be of help by letting them know our experience of struggling" with economic turmoil, Japan's Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa told reporters Tuesday...
...computer science graduate students Neil V. Jhaveri and Daniel Shteremberg, the countless hours spent working in research laboratories, leading projects, and completing difficult courses paid off—literally—on Tuesday when they were named 2009 Siebel Scholars...
...home of the longest-running humor magazine and the original campus ham-radio station, age doesn’t usually go out of style. So too for staff members—Harvard finished among the country’s top employers for older workers in a list released last Tuesday...