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Volatility tends to send deal makers to the sidelines until they get a better sense of prices, while companies planning an initial stock offering also shy away.
Financial experts warn that a small group of giant asset managers that have amassed high-risk, high-yield bonds could find themselves unable to raise enough cash during a sell-off.
A case taken up by the Supreme Court concerns whether trustees for a corporate 401(k) are liable years after choosing a class of mutual fund with higher fees.
In the ebullient Broadway revival of “On the Town,” New York is a bustling, jostling cartoon that also floats like a swan.
Many of the largest European countries, including France and Italy, are now rebelling against the German gospel of belt-tightening and calling for more radical steps to reverse their slumping fortunes.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 15, 2014, covering October 17, 2014.
Blake Shelton
Lady Antebellum
Barbra Streisand
Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga
Prince
2014Edwards Barham, American farmer and politician (born 1937)[†]
Erle Edwards Barham was a Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate. He first won the Senate seat in December 1975 beating L. B. Loftin by just 89 votes.
2014Masaru Emoto, Japanese author and activist (born 1943)[†]
Masaru Emoto was a Japanese businessman, author and pseudoscientist who claimed that human consciousness could affect the molecular structure of water. His 2004 book The Hidden Messages in Water was a New York Times best seller. His ideas had evolved over the years, and his early work revolved around pseudoscientific hypotheses that water could react to positive thoughts and words and that polluted water could be cleaned through prayer and positive visualization.
2014Tom Shaw, American bishop (born 1945)[†]
Marvil Thomas Shaw III was an American Episcopal bishop based in New England and a member of the Society of St. John the Evangelist religious order. In 1995, he was called as the fifteenth Bishop of Massachusetts.
2014Berndt von Staden, German diplomat, German Ambassador to the United States (born 1919)[†]
Berndt Robert Alexander Michael von Staden was a German diplomat who was the West German Ambassador to the United States from 1973 until 1979.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]