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...Bank. At the turn of the year, Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan's surprise interest rate cuts had market pros expecting Europe's monetary authorities to follow suit. But in his public statements, E.C.B. president Wim Duisenberg has remained unfailingly upbeat about the growth outlook. What's more, February's uptick in prices, which brings euro-zone inflation up to a 2.6% annual rate, gives the E.C.B. plenty of reason to sit on its hands for a little longer. (The central bankers consider inflation above 2% unacceptable.) "They have a view that monetary policy will only affect the economy with...
...When this slowdown is over - and with the Fed cutting interest rates at a furious pace, the markets showing signs of life, and large parts of the economy showing surprising resiliency, it's not likely to last the year - productivity growth should go back on the uptick. And the linchpin of the New Economy will be back in force...
...world economies could plunge oil prices back into the teens, and make it more difficult for OPEC to maintain the remarkable cohesion and output discipline among its members exhibited in the past two years. A short slowdown represents a different set of perils, if it's followed by an uptick in growth that could drive the price back up to the levels that prompted panicky responses from the West last Fall...
...depressed housing market to push 30-year-mortgage rates to a 17-month low. After spending most of the year above 8%, including a stretch in May when rates hit a five-year high of 8.64%, rates slid to as low as the mid-6% area, with no major uptick in sight...
...about the vulnerability of Fifth Fleet warships since at least 1996, following the Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia. More damaging fallout may emerge from probes into why the Cole was refueling in Aden in the first place. An Administration official said the U.S. was aware of "a general uptick in activity" in the past month among rogue groups hoping to use Arab-Israeli tensions as a justification for mischief. Yemen is a fertile staging ground for such mischief; the country is one of the world's poorest, and the government wields little control over the feuding tribes that roam...