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...authorities hoped the rate increase would tempt small investors to keep money in the bank rather than dump it into an overpriced equity market, they're likely to be disappointed. Savings accounts in China yield about 3%. With annual inflation running at about the same rate, that's no return at all. "Bank savings are ridiculous," snapped Li Gongren, a 55-year-old retired businessman, while he was loitering in a Shanghai brokerage office this week. "Why would you put your money in the bank and make nothing when you can make money in stocks...
...percentage terms, this year’s 79.2 percent admissions yield matches up with last year’s figure of 79.8 percent, continuing to hover near 80 percent as it has for the past few years, according to Dean of Admissions William R. Fitzsimmons...
...Harvard’s rate tends to be well above that of other highly selective institutions. Last year, Princeton and Stanford both reported yields of 69 percent, and Yale’s yield was 71 percent...
...president resigned after a protracted battle with Faculty of Arts and Sciences professors that made headlines around the world; this February, the national press largely cast Harvard in a rosy glow after the University selected its first woman president in its 371-year history. And yet, the admissions yield figures for 2007 and 2006 were separated by just six-tenths of a percent...
...admissions office points to the expansion of the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative (HFAI)—which will cover about 25 percent of the incoming class—as well as extensive recruiting efforts as major factors in the College’s high yield rates...