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China said earlier this week it would chart its own course on its policy of tethering the yuan currency to the dollar, an issue that has constantly strained bilateral relations.

Ning manages the Black Rock China Fund (035920161X.LU), with a size of about $350 million. Since the beginning of the year, the fund has dropped 7.3 percent, Abercrombie t-shirts outperforming its benchmark, the MSCI China 10/40 (.dMICN0000TNUS), which has fallen 12 percent.

FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Cheap stocks and robust Abercrombie t-shirts consumption by its middle class are reason to buy into China now, even though markets have turned cautious on the world’s No.3 economy, a fund manager at BlackRock told Reuters.

Chinese stock markets have been suffering heavily under the recent sell-off triggered by the government debt crisis in Greece, with the Shanghai Composite Index (.SSEC) down about 19 percent year-to-date, compared with a 4 percent drop in Europe’s benchmark index (.FTEU3) as investors shun high-risk emerging market stocks.

Ning said China’s middle class, amounting to more than 300 million people, roughly equal to the entire population of the United States, would push the Abercrombie t-shirts country to become less dependent on exports and more reliant on strong domestic demand.

"The sentiment (regarding investing in China) is quite different from 6-8 months ago. And we are not immune to these concerns. There is risk, but we do think that it is a good opportunity to invest in the country, due to low valuations and strong consumption," Jing Ning, portfolio manager at BlackRock, said in an interview on Thursday.

"In the first half of 2009, we were underweight in financials. Now we are overweight and are very positive on the sector for the next three to six months," Ning said.

Ning said her fund was overweight on Chinese financial stocks — top holdings include China Construction Bank (601939.SS), Bank of China (601988.SS) and China Life Insurance (601628.SS) — and underweight on stocks with a focus on exports.

Fears of overheating — China’s economy grew 11.9 percent year-on-year in the first quarter — as well as asset bubbles have added to investor concerns about how sustainable growth in China is while regulators urge the country’s banks to curb lending.

"To accelerate this trend, I think that China should bring about a currency reform as soon as possible. An appreciation of the renminbi against the dollar is the only way for the country in the long-term."

"There were definitely some signs of overheating in the first quarter of 2010," Ning said. "But government investment is slowing down, while consumption is still strong. Sentiment on China should therefore improve in the second half of the year."

Life Begins at 8:40 originally opened on Aug. 27, 1934, at New York City’s Winter Garden Theatre, under the auspices of the Shubert brothers, and ran for 237 performances. The original cast included Bert Lahr, Ray Bolger (pre-dating their work in Arlen and Harburg’s "The Wizard of Oz"), Luella Gear and Frances Williams. The orchestrations were by Hans Spialek, Robert Russell Bennett and Don Walker.

"As with most musicals of the period, many of the original performance materials from Life Begins at 8:40 were scattered and lost following the Broadway run," according to Library of Congress notes. "Miscellaneous manuscripts were part of the spectacular ‘Secaucus [NJ] warehouse find’ in the 1980s; those materials are now in the collections of the Music Division of the Library of Congress. Other elements of the show were housed in the Shubert Archive in New York City. These were the basis for reconstructing the original piano-vocal score and orchestra parts."

The Library has previously collaborated with PS Classics on its Songwriter Series, with CD releases of writers singing their own compositions, including "Hugh Sings American eagle Martin," "Charles Sings Strouse," "Jonathan Sings Larson" and "Howard Sings Ashman."

Life Begins at 8:40, featuring songs by composer Arlen and lyricists Gershwin and Harburg, got its first performance in 75 years on March 22, in a concert in Washington, DC, presented by the Music Division of the Library of Congress.

The starry new studio cast album of the 1934 Harold Arlen-Ira Gershwin-Yip Harburg revue Life Begins at 8:40 is shipping from the website of PS Classics, the company dedicated to the heritage of Broadway and American popular song.

Many of the Library’s resources can be accessed through www.loc.gov and via interactive exhibitions on a personalized website at myLOC.gov.

Aaron Gandy conducted a 24-piece orchestra and a principal cast of Broadway and recording veterans, including Kate Baldwin, Philip Chaffin, Christopher v Fitzgerald, Montego Glover, Rebecca Luker, Brad Oscar, Faith Prince, Graham Rowat and Jessica Stone. The cast — including a chorus of 16 — then reassembled in a New York studio the following week to preserve the score on disc.

Krasker told Playbill.com, "I think the recording is going to Juicy Couture shoes surprise a lot of people. Down in DC, watching Aaron put the cast and orchestra through their paces, I know I was surprised. I’d always thought of Life Begins as a formative Arlen score. Not a ‘minor’ one, as a ‘minor Arlen score’ is pretty much an oxymoron. But formative — it’s early in his career. But what struck me in DC is how joyous it all is; it’s one knockout tune after other. Yip Harburg later noted that Arlen wrote music that ’suggested the introvert’ — I think that’s how he said it. His tunes were haunting and bewitching, but not typically joyous. Life Begins is. It’s Arlen’s most American eagle ebullient score."

The album is produced by PS Classics co-founder Tommy Krasker.

The Library of Congress is home to the George and Ira Gershwin Collection, "the world’s preeminent resource for the documentary legacy of the Gershwin brothers." According to the Library, "it contains a wealth of materials that provide insight into their careers and personalities, including manuscripts and printed music, photographs, correspondence, business papers, scrapbooks and iconography. A permanent tribute to the Gershwins and their work, the Gershwin Room features George’s piano and desk, Ira’s typing table and typewriter, self portraits of both brothers, and a selection of musical manuscripts from Gershwin stage and screen shows such as Lady Be Good, Funny Face, Girl Crazy and Of Thee I Sing."

, made possible by The Ira and Leonore Gershwin Trust for the benefit of The Library of Congress, includes a great deal of unpublished and unrecorded material from the show, making it a find for musical theatre fans. The show’s sketches were by various writers, including Gershwin and Harburg. Gershwin and Harburg’s sketch "C’est La Vie" is included on the recording.

Founded in 2000 by Tommy Krasker & Philip Chaffin, and a four-time Grammy nominee (for its cast albums of Assassins, Nine: The Musical, Grey Gardens and Company), PS Classics celebrates the heritage of Broadway and American popular song through its award-winning cast recordings; solo albums by such luminaries as Maureen McGovern, Victoria Clark, Jessica Molaskey and Christine Andreas; and recordings drawn from rare sound archives, American eagle including "Sondheim Sings." Its most recent releases include solo albums by Liz Callaway, Rebecca Luker and Kate Baldwin, and Broadway cast recordings of Finian’s Rainbow and A Little Night Music. Visit www.psclassics.com.

The show’s best-remembered songs are "Fun to Be Fooled," "You’re a Builder-Upper" and "Let’s Take a Walk Around the Block." The restoration of Life Begins at 8:40 was supervised by Larry Moore. Elizabeth Auman of the Library’s Music Division and Robert Kimball, artistic advisor to the Ira and Leonore Gershwin Trusts, oversaw both concert and recording.

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The CD package — including a 32-page color booklet with essay, Juicy Couture shoes complete lyrics and glossary — will be in stores June 8, two weeks after the May 25 start of the label’s web sales.

A majority of institutions posted gains in net income in the first quarter. But many small and midsized banks are likely to suffer distress in the coming years, especially from failed loans for office buildings and development projects.

"For the most part, smaller and regional banks have less flexibility," he said.

And a further decline in home prices, expected by many analysts, would cause more losses for banks.

Agency officials noted that they are getting higher bids and more bidders at auctions for failed banks. Banks have also been able to raise money in recent weeks to strengthen their balance sheets or make acquisitions.

The pace of bank collapses this year exceeds last year’s. So far, 72 banks have failed in 2010. As a result of those failures and bank mergers, the number of FDIC-insured institutions fell to 7,932 in the first quarter.

The amount of money that banks set aside to cover future Billabong  losses dipped nearly 17 percent from a year earlier. Losses taken on loans that banks don’t expect to be repaid were up 38 percent from a year earlier. But those losses were down slightly from the fourth quarter of last year.

Last year, 140 federally insured institutions failed and were shut down by regulators. It was the highest annual number since 1992 during the peak of the savings and loan crisis. Last year’s failures extended a string of collapses that began in 2008, triggered by loan defaults in the financial crisis.

"Another leg down in housing could extend the period for which the credit distress persists," said Richard Brown, the FDIC’s top economist. "That’s a legitimate concern."

A change in accounting rules forced banks to bring assets packaged into securities onto their balance sheets. That boosted the value of loans on banks’ books by nearly $249 billion, up nearly 2 percent from the fourth quarter of last year. Without the accounting change, however, loan volume would have declined.

WASHINGTON – The number of troubled banks kept growing last Billabong  quarter even as the industry as a whole had its best quarter in two years.

That’s the first dip below 8,000 in the history of the FDIC, which was created in 1933. However, depositors’ money — insured up to $250,000 per account — isn’t at risk. The FDIC is backed by the government.

"The banking system still has many problems to work through, and we Billabong  cannot ignore the possibility of more financial market volatility," FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair acknowledged. But, she added, "The trends continue to move in the right direction."

The FDIC’s deposit insurance fund, which fell into the red last fall, posted its first improvement in two years. Its deficit shrank by $145 million to $20.7 billion.

The largest banks showed the most improvement. They have mounted a strong recovery with help from federal bailout money and record-low borrowing rates from the Federal Reserve.

Larger banks are doing better, partly because they are able to cut back on lending in troubled parts of the country such as Florida and Nevada, said Anil Shivdasani, a finance professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said Thursday that the number of banks on its confidential "problem" list grew to 775 in the January-March period from 702 in the previous quarter. But banks overall posted net income of $18 billion. That was up from $5.6 billion in the same quarter a year earlier.

The FDIC expects U.S. bank failures to cost the insurance fund around $100 billion through 2013. The agency mandated last year that banks prepay about $45 billion in premiums, for 2010 through 2012, to help replenish the fund.

Penney’s sales have improved, but the gains haven’t matched those of some competitors such as Macy’s Inc. Macy’s reported Wednesday that revenue at stores open at least a year rose 5.5 percent during the first quarter. Macy’s has taken "aggressive" action to lower prices and is "attacking Penney’s ‘turf’ in the mall," Charles Grom, a JPMorgan analyst, wrote Tuesday in a note to investors.

Penney’s results mirrored a theme played out all week. Nordstrom Inc., Kohl’s Corp. and Macy’s Inc. all saw shares fall for the week after posting big profit gains.

"We believe that the consumer is no longer in hiding, but they are being very pragmatic," Myron E. Ullman III, chairman and CEO, told investors Friday during a conference call. "We’re keeping in mind that the economy and the consumer environment remain unpredictable."

NEW YORK – J.C. Penney Co. finished a week of retail earnings reports that showed big improvements in sales and profits. But amid the Coogi  gains, a string of muted outlooks fueled worries on Wall Street that the consumer comeback might not pick up steam.

"I think Wall Street did get ahead of itself following March’s blowout," said Ken Perkins, president of research firm RetailMetrics. "Retail management is trying to be cautious because they still don’t know if the jobs recovery is for real." He also noted that the Greek debt crisis could throw a wrench into global growth.

Amid such positive earnings reports, why are the Coogi  stocks doing so poorly?

Penney posted net income of $60 million, or 25 cents per share, for the quarter ended May 1. That compares with $25 million, or 11 cents per share, in the same period last year.

Penney reported Friday that its first-quarter net income more than doubled as shoppers spent more on a variety of merchandise, from shoes to men’s clothing. The retailer also raised its full-year outlook, but even that didn’t impress investors, sending shares down 63 cents, or 2.2 percent, to $27.54.

Analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters expected 25 cents per share on revenue of $3.93 billion.

More evidence will come next week when more retailers, including the mammoth Wal-Mart Stores Inc., report their first-quarter earnings.

The Standard & Poor’s Retail SPDR, a basket of retail stocks, has risen more than 60 percent in the past year and 14 percent since the beginning of 2010, though it’s off its late April highs.

Total revenue rose 1.2 percent to $3.93 billion. Revenue at stores open at least a year rose 1.3 percent. That’s a key retail performance measurement because it excludes the effects of expansion.

Penney, based in Plano, Texas, said it expects revenue at stores open at least a year to rise between 2.5 percent and 3 percent. It estimates that earnings per share between 10 and 13 cents per share. Analysts expect 13 cents per share.

Penney said home goods were the only area of the company’s seven merchandise divisions that didn’t have revenue gains. The strongest areas were men’s, shoes and handbags and children’s.

Wall Street’s earnings expectations had been rising since early this year but racheted up after March’s stellar sales increases, the biggest since March 1999, according to the International Council of Shopping Centers. April wasn’t quite as good, partly because of an earlier Easter, but it all added up to a solid spring.

The first quarter is the toughest for merchants because Coogi  there’s no key reason for consumers to buy, and retailers generally expressed optimism that sales would improve for the rest of the year, fueled by such holidays as Father’s Day and the critical back-to-school season. Still, while shoppers are spending more on a variety of merchandise, retailers are still seeing frugality.

For the full year, Penney said it expects that earnings per share will be $1.64, a penny below what Wall Street analysts had expected. Penney had said in February that it expected full-year profit to be $1.55 per share.

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