Fundamental reasons for YieldQuest s positive stance on the dollar include: A low probability of additional and/or immediate rate cuts due to recent activity in most financial markets, which strongly suggests some return to normalcy. Treasury yields due to investors tempering expectations for aggressive rate cuts, and global central banks tempering of bias in response to tightened credit conditions, and the potential impact of their sharply higher currencies on economic growth. The surge...

It was a watering hole for European vessels plying the river, a trade centre for slaves and goods, a multi ethnic town here various cultures mixed and interacted. From his description, it is assumed that the town was multi ethnic with a sizable European (Portuguese) population, who could have been traders wealthy enough to own big houses. In 1682 another explorer Loemos Coelho, wrote ' Bintang was the best village on the river, having much trade in hides, as well as wax, ivory and slaves'...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Gasoline prices jumped back above $3 a gallon at the pump Monday even as concerns about the economy and increases in crude supplies sent oil prices lower. Retail gas prices have been slow to catch up with soaring crude prices, which have gained nearly 39 percent since late August to a trading high of $96. Foremost on investors minds was the situation at Citigroup inc., which warned Sunday it would take additional losses of $8 billion to $11 billion due in part to its...

And because the university has 303 student organizations, theres almost always some student group out there every day of the week selling baked goods or other food. Its nice to support the university by buying food on campus, but its more satisfying to see your dollars go directly into student organizations or groups hands for the cost of a cheap lunch. While this type of food sale lacks the fun and feel of homemade food, and certainly doesnt warrant the title of bake sale, it feels great...

Included in the mass of kitchen waste are dozens of small loaves of leftover bread, untouched and bagged in plastic, waiting to be picked up by trash collectors. A few blocks away, in Old Town, Brian Ferschweiler, executive director of the nonprofit social service agency Blanchet House, looks out over a cafeteria that serves 600 meals a day, most to the homeless, and wonders who will provide him with enough food this week to serve his customers. A few blocks away, in Old Town, Brian...