Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Reynolds continue to do well. Hugh Johnson, First Albany?s chief investment strategist thinks one factor supporting tobacco shares is growing investor concerns that the stock market may be due for a major correction. Reason: people smoke more when they?re nervous. And when the economy seems uncertain, investors tend to turn to the food, tobacco and pharmaceutical firms that make the products that people buy no matter what they?re doing without...
...Reynolds continue to do well. Hugh Johnson, First Albany?s chief investment strategist thinks one factor supporting tobacco shares is growing investor concerns that the stock market may be due for a major correction. Reason: people smoke more when they?re nervous. And when the economy seems uncertain, investors tend to turn to the food, tobacco and pharmaceutical firms that make the products that people buy no matter what they?re doing without...
...health is setting off an equally severe crisis of confidence among his closest advisers. After a nasty brush with pneumonia and a reported relapse into depression, the chances that the 66-year-old President can serve out the remainder of his four-year term have begun to look increasingly uncertain. And the more doubtful his survival becomes, the more furiously members of Yeltsin's inner circle feel they must scramble for a solution to keep themselves in power. The biggest problem they face is that if Yeltsin were to pass from the scene tomorrow, not a single member...
...course that outlay seems insignificant compared with $4 billion in coal revenues, but whether even so princely a sum is a fair price for Utah's mineral riches is uncertain. The developer that was closest to signing a mining agreement before Clinton's announcement--and the one with whom Utahns still want to cut a deal--is the Andalex mining company. Recently, though, the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance and other environmental groups have publicized the fact that Andalex is based in the Netherlands. The net profits from any dig--beyond the $4 billion--would thus not even remain...
...hoisted on the shoulders of supporters, and Bulgarians ended 30 days of protests to erupt in celebration. Bulgaria's next Prime Minister, says TIME's Massimo Calabresi, will almost certainly be opposition leader Ivan Kostov of the United Democratic Forces. But what relief his term will bring is uncertain. "Kostov is a former finance minister with the UDF," Calabresi noted, "and at the time, he fared little better with Bulgaria's economic problems than the Socialists have since." More encouraging, says Calabresi, is the "actively pro-market" reform package that Kostov presented in vain to the Socialists in January." Some...