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...Kumar and junior Sasha Ermakov won seven straight matches to guide the Crimson to the all-important doubles point throughout the Ivy League season. With their 24-8 overall record (15-3 in dual matches), Kumar and Ermakov earned a spot in the doubles bracket of the NCAA tournament. After downing a Michigan State pair, the duo bowed out in the second round to a team from North Carolina. No. 112 Clayton also made the NCAA tournament in singles, but fell in first round. Thankfully for Harvard, it will be able to rely on rising sophomores Alexei Chijoff-Evans...
...glance at the NCAA men’s tennis tournament bracket shows No. 51 Harvard (15-6, 7-0 Ivy League) in a precarious position: the Crimson face 17th-ranked Texas Tech, likely followed by No. 16 Michigan, all for the dubious right to play the top-ranked Mountaineers of Virginia in the round...
Kelly went 2-2 at 55 kg in the junior division and did not qualify for the World Team Trials, while Harvard assistant coach Darrell Vasquez, who has already qualified for the US Olympic trials in June, went 1-2 in the senior bracket...
...This information isn't complete or compelling enough to make predictions. Indeed, after the tumble its markets have already taken, China seems almost certain to join the losers bracket. Slowing global economic growth will likely be an overall drag on profits through the end of the year at least, and the Olympics effect, if any, will be too small to matter. Our survey found that the host nations that appeared to benefit were smaller countries like South Korea where Olympics spending seemed to have a meaningful impact on overall economic activity. But China is the world's fourth largest economy...
...risk is well worth it." He recently put his clients into the BlackRock International Municipal closed-end fund, which was trading at an unusually large 12% discount to the assets in the fund and yielding 5.7%. The after-tax equivalent of that yield for someone in the 30% tax bracket: 8.2%. Steep discounts and generous yields are still available in closed-end muni funds, including DTF Tax Free (recently at a 10% discount, with a 4.4% dividend...