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...housing market has defied the economic slump, so have the stocks of homebuilders, home-renovation stores and mortgage lenders. But is it time to dump these stocks? Fund manager Ron Muhlenkamp says Lowe's, whose stock has risen 42% in the past 12 months, no longer looks like a bargain. Ditto for sub-prime lenders like Countrywide, which may be hit hard by the upturn in mortgage delinquencies, says portfolio manager David Dreman. However, Dreman says, big lenders such as Fannie Mae, which have less exposure to risky credit, should continue to perform well. Homebuilder stocks such as Centex...
...killings of American journalist Daniel Pearl and 11 French engineers in Karachi demonstrate, General Musharraf is not yet out of the woods--especially given Pakistan's endemic state of cold war with India over Kashmir. But one year after Sept. 11, Southwest Asia has neither exploded nor risen up at the instigation of jihadists...
...launch of the single currency. Merchants are accused of rounding prices up, and talk of the weather is being displaced by anecdotes about how cups of coffee have doubled in price. Some moaning is justified: in Greece, studies show, the price of an average "basket" of goods has risen 10%, and surveys in France and Italy find similar increases. According to a new study by Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, the rounding also stopped deflationary price convergence across Europe this year. But things aren't as bad as they seem. Euro-zone inflation has been stable, at only 2.1% in August...
PREPAID TUITION PLANS Unlike so-called 529 college-savings plans, most of which lost money last year, prepaid plans gained about 7%. That's because they are guaranteed to keep up with tuition costs, which have risen at twice the rate of inflation. Mark Kantrowitz of FinAid.org also notes that prepaid plans (often derided because they tie you to a particular school or group of schools) are becoming more flexible about school choice. Kantrowitz suggests combining a prepaid plan (which does better when the economy performs poorly) with a 529 (which does the opposite) as a way to balance...
...developed nations of the West are, by most measures, the cleanest they have been for decades, and the amount of land protected as national parks and preserves has quadrupled worldwide since 1970. But despite a record flow of financial resources (donations to U.S. environmental groups alone have risen 50% in the past five years, to more than $6.4 billion in 2001, according to the American Association of Fundraising Counsel Trust for Philanthropy), the planet's most serious challenges--global warming, loss of biodiversity, marine depletion --remain as intractable as ever, making environmentalists vulnerable to charges that green groups have prospered...