U.S. Stock Volatility Climbs to Highest in 70 Years, SP Says
By Jeff Kearns
March 20 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. stock market is the most
volatile in 70 years, according to a Standard Poors study of
daily price swings in the SP 500.
[...]
U.S. Financial Crisis Is Over, Analyst Bove Says (Update2)
By Aaron Clark and Jeff Kearns
March 20 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. financial crisis is over
and the decline in bank stocks offers a “once in a generation
buying opportunity for investors, according to Richard [...]
R.H. Donnelley, Idearc Debt Falls, Signals Defaults (Update2)
By Caroline Salas and Wayne Ma
March 20 (Bloomberg) — Yellow Pages phone-directory
publishers R.H. Donnelley Corp. and Idearc Inc. may lead a surge
in media-company defaults as the U.S. economy heads into a
recession.
[...]
Swap Users Sing `Your Cheatin Heart to Wall Street: Joe Mysak
Commentary by Joe Mysak
March 20 (Bloomberg) — How can any state or municipality
possibly use swaps and derivatives again?
No, Im not referring to how [...]
We followed them from one design challenge to the next, endured the endless nights in the workroom at Parsons, suffered with them through the self-doubt and angst, and, in February, we previewed their collections on the runway at Bryant Park during New York Fashion Week. So how will things unfold Wednesday at 8 p.m., when [...]
FORT COLLINS %26mdash; Lauren Myracle is 38 going on 15, and fluent in the instant-message lingua franca of the tweens and teens who’ve made her the literary equivalent of a rock star.
Her novel “ttyl” %26mdash; e-shorthand for “talk to you later” %26mdash; was written in the form of instant messages, composed at the Fort [...]
TOKYO %26mdash; Until recently, cellphone novels %26mdash; composed on phone keypads by young women wielding dexterous thumbs and read by fans on their tiny screens %26mdash; had been dismissed in Japan as a subgenre unworthy of the country that gave the world its first novel, “The Tale of Genji,” a millennium ago.
Then, in December, [...]
Why are some dining experiences exquisite, and others %26mdash; the pits? We look at the server-diner relationship from both sides of the plate.
THE WAITER
By Kristen Browning-Blas, Denver Post Food Editor
A restaurant can control the quality of the ingredients it buys, the type of chef and cooks it hires, the way the menu is [...]
One of the first things you’ll notice about Shells %26 Sauce, a half-year-old neighborhood Italian restaurant in the Congress Park neighborhood, is that it’s noisy.
It’s not noisy for the bad reasons: not because there’s an unmuffled exhaust system overhead, not because it’s on a busy intersection, not because the radio’s turned up too loud [...]
We tend think of our bones as just the scaffolding that holds us together, but they also protect our vital organs. And as we age, we need to continue getting calcium and to exercise to keep our bones healthy.
So when you’re pumping iron at the gym or climbing a fourteener, you’re doing it [...]
