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...materials, and it has registered some eye-popping gains over the past month. The London-based index registered its 23rd straight daily gain on Wednesday, closing at 4,291, its highest mark since September and the longest streak of gains since July 2006. Daily rates for the largest Capesize ships, which typically carry iron ore, rose 6.8% on Wednesday to $93,197. Just five months ago, daily ship-rental rates were hovering just above $2,000, about the price of a great seat on opening day at the new Yankee Stadium...
...paltry $500. Though the pace of the drop in rates has slowed, there are signs that charter prices have still not bottomed out, having dipped below the record lows of the 2002 stock-market crunch. According to London ship broker Clarkson, a 3,500-TEU gearless Panamax vessel - the largest vessel that can go through the Panama Canal - pulls in $6,500 a day, down 34% on the $9,500 it was charging in February...
...highly portable machines are the stars of this year's Computex, Asia's largest computer exhibition, which is being held in Taipei this week. Manufacturers are showing off new models that, unlike previous underperforming offerings with tiny 8-in. screens and cramped keyboards, are bulking up to challenge full-sized, full-featured notebook computers - albeit with higher prices. At Computex, Taiwan-based Acer is showing off its $499 Aspire One 751h netbook, which features an 11.6-in. screen and a standard-sized keyboard. Campbell Kan, Acer's VP of Mobile Computing, says the device, which debuted in April, is selling...
Another life insurer, TIAA-CREF, the largest U.S. education retirement fund, has long been criticized for its billion-dollar investments in tobacco stocks. It now allows clients to opt to avoid such equities through special socially conscious funds. This is an option nearly all insurers now include in their portfolios. "As a TIAA-CREF participant, you do not have to own shares in tobacco companies if you choose not to," says spokesman Chad Peterson...
...would probably moot our case," Olson told TIME. "It would be great if [the new ballot initiative] would be successful, but ... a loss would be very unfortunate - two successive popular vote losses in the nation's largest and one of the most liberal states. I'm not quite sure I follow the risk-benefit analysis." That's exactly what gay-rights activists worried about this suit have been thinking...