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...corporate planning rooms, however, hopes are likely to stay on the mend. There is little chance that CEOs planning deals will recoil. Companies seeking to divest a noncore asset or buy one that fits a strategic need can't wait forever. With stock prices no longer falling and the worst earnings news evidently behind us, bankers say, buyers and sellers of companies are better able to value assets and are eager to explore options. For example, analysts who cover J.P. Morgan Chase say the bank, stung by its exposure to investment banking, is looking for an acquisition in the consumer...
Britney Spears possesses exactly two salient points and one asset worth discussing. She is perhaps not unique in Hollywood in this respect, but if her own chit-chat is to be believed, her latest album, Britney, is the ambitious product of her growing maturity and artistic integrity. Spears would have us believe that her burgeoning sexuality is part of a critically respected, yet popularly titillating career path dominated by Madonna for two decades. While certainly she deserves credit for setting such lofty goals, Britney falls so far short of its purported artistic achievement that it could well mark the defining...
...such as South Station and the Boston Public Library. So why this sudden (not to mention short-lived) desire to leave unfinished concrete pockmarked by identical one-inch holes? Concrete was the building material because of its “riot-proof” nature—an attractive asset after the events of the 1960’s. According to Mather Co-Master Sandra Naddaff ’75, the holes, which are a product of the mold into which concrete was poured, are actually meant to be decorative. While their success in serving this purpose is clearly debatable...
...average large-cap growth fund is down more than 24% this year to date. You could sell the large-cap growth fund and invest the money in another fund family's large-cap growth fund. Because the funds will probably have similar holdings, you won't alter your asset-class mix, and your investment strategy stays intact...
Harvesting losses does pose some risks. If you decide to take a loss now and don't buy a similar stock or fund right away, you might miss out on the run-up as that market sector or industry recovers. Also, "if you swap out of one asset, and you take a loss and reinvest the money in another asset, you're taking a different kind of risk," says portfolio manager Josh Weiss of Litman/Gregory Asset Management. "Even though you may be swapping into something similar, it doesn't guarantee the performance will be identical...