Word: weather
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...Ohio State University and Tyler Shumway of the University of Michigan looked at stock markets in 26 countries over 16 years and found that performance goes up as cloud cover goes down, bolstering a claim first made a decade ago. The reason is what you might think: sunny weather leads to a sunny disposition and a more optimistic outlook on prospects. There's no money in sunny, though. Transaction costs will probably erase any benefit gained trading on nice days. The real lesson: "Somebody out there is trading on emotion," says Shumway. "That shouldn't be you." --By Barbara Kiviat
...Peak is approximately that height, I asked what would happen if I ejected there. "They'd be cleaning you up with a spoon," I was told. Hence, I was nervous. My prospective crewmates, however, were reassuring. Said one: "At least you won't be flying at night. In bad weather. With people trying to kill...
...with gasoline during the Iraqi war, natural gas last winter and electricity in 2000--are all but guaranteed. The result is a hidden tax of tens of billions of dollars on American consumers. Just how many billions depends on a catalog of variables ranging from the harshness of the weather to unfolding events in the Middle East. More important, it depends on whether Congress and the White House, Democrats and Republicans, come up with a thoughtful energy policy that imposes tough conservation and efficiency measures, promotes research to develop one or two realistic alternative energy forms in commercial quantities...
...while testifying - mumbling and shaking his head - denies being the source for the story, and complains about the experience afterwards, but the committee doesn't seem to suspect him of anything - a basically unremarkable encounter. Two days later he leaves his house for an afternoon walk, coatless despite unpleasant weather. The following day the police find his body in a nearby field. He had taken some painkillers and slit his left wrist. And then, two days later, the BBC confirms that he was the source for the devastating story after all. The suicide last week of Dr. David Kelly...
...Option 1: Stay in Power Tung could weather the storm by sacking the more unpopular members of his Cabinet. Topping that list would be Secretary for Security Regina Ip, the public face of Article 23, and Financial Secretary Antony Leung, under fire for the ailing economy?and for trying to avoid a hefty new car tax that he himself introduced...