Mortgage Phishing - The Grand Art of Hooking a Sucker - 2005-03-08
Have you ever gotten an e-mail offering you a special and irresistible offer on a new mortgage for your house? If you didn't request the offer originally, you are probably a potential victim of mortgage email phishing. And, chances are you have received not only one of these e-mail scams, but dozens - each one with better terms than the last. It's not just the people who own homes who receive these, but any one of any age who has an e-mail account.
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China's Economy May Overshoot 8% Growth Target - 2005-03-08
Chinese policy makers are being overly sanguine in expecting they will be able to direct the economy to a ``soft landing'' in 2005 without having to adjust either the currency value or interest rates.

``I don't see the necessity to hike interest rates again,'' Guo Shuqing, director of China's State Administration of Foreign Exchange, told reporters in Beijing last week. The foreign- exchange regulator also ruled out a large-scale appreciation in the yuan, which has been pegged at 8.3 to the U.S. dollar for a decade.
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