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What's more, unlike the situation at the height of the credit crunch, corporations are able to raise money from investors. On Tuesday alone, corporations sold $23.5 billion in bonds, making it the second most active day in debt sales by companies on record. In 2009, corporations issued $712 billion in investment-grade bonds, up from $646 billion...
...with a firm footing in Yemen, al-Qaeda can coordinate with Red Sea pirates operating from Somalia and eventually reach the Suez Canal - or launch attacks in Saudi Arabia and the other Persian Gulf countries. "Anyone who has been to Yemen knows that automatic arms, explosives, even rockets are sold out in the open - on street corners - often by people who make no secret of their Islamist affinities," says a French counterterrorism official. "It's been this enormous crossroads for people traveling from one jihad, like Iraq or Afghanistan, to another one, like Somalia...
...studying to be an aromatherapist. "She blended some oils for me to put under my shaving cream so that the razor glided over the skin and didn't grab hair," Malka says. "It worked magic for my skin and was the catalyst for starting the shaving business." They sold their BMW for $12,000 - "We were broke," Malka says - and opened up a small Manhattan store in 1996. The company sells its own Art of Shaving-brand products in its stores and other high-end retailers like Bloomingdale's, Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom and Saks. (See the best pictures...
...Shaving has corralled enough loyal customers to carve out a niche in the grooming sector. Heck, the company even sold some of those $3,400 sets this holiday season. "We're confident that the momentum we've experienced the last couple of months will continue into 2010," says Malka. "And now with our partners at P&G, we can take the business to another level." But in a still shaky economy, can the blade business avoid deep cuts along...
...secondly, there's a ripple effect. Just speaking about Pimco's general portfolio strategy, we've sold our agency mortgage securities, Fannie and Freddie, in the billions to the willing check of the Fed. They're buying a trillion dollars of them, or have over the past nine to 12 months, and so we sold them a lot of ours. Now, what did we do with the money? We bought Treasuries, we bought corporate bonds, and so the bond markets in general have benefited, as have stocks, because this available money effectively flows through the capital markets...