Not all interest rate cuts are created equal

Story date: 2007-10-07 01:21:00
Added on: 2007-10-07 02:00:24

St. Louis Post-Dispatch - The stock market loves lower interest rates. Major market indexes are up more than 4 percent since Sept. 17, the day before the ... The natural question, then, is whether the current situation is more like that of 1990 or that of 1998. An optimist would ...


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