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...companies are already on the mend--and after an awful lot of good news has been factored into stock prices. Consider that while you were logging 14-hour days at the office and repeatedly refinancing your house to make ends meet, the stock market was on a tear. The Dow is up 41% from its low 14 months ago, the NASDAQ...
Pischetsrieder insists the strategy will pay off once the new cars take hold with consumers. Investors seem to think so. VW's share price rallied 34% from the start of the year to early November, outperforming the Dow Jones auto index by 14 percentage points. The Touareg is off to a strong sales start, both here and in Europe. The Phaeton is not. Available in Europe for more than a year, it has been no threat to the Mercedes S Class and the BMW 7 Series, selling less than 8,000 units (in 2002 BMW sold 14,670 7 Series...
...each rise an additional 10% against the dollar from levels in early November, the study found, the Lehman Aggregate Bond Index could slip 0.6%, which means that a $10,000 bond would lose about $60. It would cost the S&P 500 index 3.4%, the NASDAQ 4.5% and the Dow 3.2%. On opposite shores, RiskMetrics found that the weaker dollar could cause the FTSE 100 to edge up 0.43%, while the Nikkei might zoom 12.97%. Says RiskMetrics strategist Mike Thompson: "The findings reaffirm the importance of owning both U.S. and foreign investments...
...closer the Dow gets to making a new assault on 10,000, the quicker investors seem to be unlearning all the lessons from the three-year bloodbath that preceded this year's rally. Morgan Stanley market guru Steve Galbraith grumbles that either the generations have become shorter or investor behavior deemed "once in a generation" has managed to repeat itself twice in four years. "Our biggest fear," he cautions, "is that the lunatic fringe is again engaging in behavior eerily reminiscent of the bubble...
...HERE WE GO AGAIN As the Dow once again nears 10,000, it's worth recalling the hard lessons learned from the tech-stock implosion