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Seeks: a girlfriend, an umbrella, a big-screen TV, a spade, disposable income, steady employment, toothpicks, general companionship...
What's the psychology in the professional investment community now? Are the pros as scared as the general public? Everyone is maximum conservative. The amount of money in money market funds is about half the aggregate value of the S&P 500. That's an unbelievable ratio. Even in hedge funds, which are ordinarily leveraged [i.e., more than 100% invested], they are now less than 100% invested, in some cases less than 50% invested. So everyone is maximum defensive, which is basically good news because if the fundamentals turn, there's plenty of cash to get the market going...
...this is not the time to be loading up on classical recovery plays, like small-cap stocks? You can buy the highest quality stocks, Microsoft, General Electric, etc., at prices that you probably thought would never be possible, so there's no need to go lower on the quality scale...
...part of Obama’s stimulus package. Levy attributed the remaining major losses to the operating budget to a decreased patient load because of the financial crisis. Some of the decrease resulted from a new policy that no longer allows emergency room diversions to Beth Israel from Mass. General and Brigham and Womens’ hospitals, Levy said. Levy added at the meeting that there has been a cultural shift in treatment as well, as workers insecure in their employment postpone taking time off for elective surgery out of the fear their job might not be there when they...
...brazen strike in a fortified part of the capital near the Interior and Oil ministries and other government offices took place just? hours before Major General David Perkins, spokesman for U.S forces in Iraq, said that American troops would be pared down from 14 to 12 brigades by September, reducing the 140,000-strong force by 12,000. President Barack Obama plans to withdraw all combat troops by September next year, leaving a residual force of up to 50,000 support and training troops. Four thousand British troops are also scheduled to pull out in the next few months...