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...share, compounding investor worry that the appreciation of the yen will further reduce share value and corporate profits. Mitsubishi UFJ, like Japan's other mega-banks, avoided damage caused by the subprime crisis, but its stock portfolio is now taking a hit as the Nikkei and Tokyo Stock Price Index (Topix) continue to fall and wipe value from its balance sheet. One credit analyst estimates that since the end of June, the total stock value held by the top three banks has dropped by $56 billion, signaling that other banks are clearly at risk...
Japan's banks have worked to reduce their shareholdings, but economists and bank analysts have mixed views on just how much exposure banks now have to stock price movement. Hironari Nozaki, a bank analyst at Nikko Citigroup, says that mega-banks should be stable even if the Topix plummets to 600 or the Nikkei 5,500. (they closed Monday at 746 and 7,162 respectively). "But," he says, "I don't want to imagine that situation...
...Even Republicans who didn't vote for Webb in 2006 are looking at Democrats this year. Karen Krivo, a 41-year-old mother of two who until now never considered voting for a Democrat for any office, is fed up. The high price of gasoline has made commuting the 30 miles into Washington impossible for some, and the housing crisis has glutted the once booming market. "It's a vote against President Bush and the Republican Congress's policies," she says. "I know we need to change, and Barack Obama provides that change...
...Obama is the master of giving people some of what they want, enough to make the common ground seem sufficiently hospitable for them to agree to try it out for a while. So where one hand giveth, the other hand holds the price tag. Yes, we need to give troubled kids better opportunities, he says, but parents have to turn off the TV and weigh in and get involved. Yes, the government needs to drive an alternative-energy economy, but we have to turn off the lights and turn down the heat. Yes, we can argue, but we also have...
...belt whose "silver tanks shone so brightly you could comb your hair in their reflection" - spiral into a sordid tale of murder, kidnapping and torture. After being sentenced to life imprisonment, one of the perpetrators, Larry Stanley - "paunchy, graying, defeated, and washed-up at fifty-seven" - tallies the price of his dream: "My search for the rocket belt has cost me more than half a million dollars and left my family destitute and on food stamps...