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...small investor has hopefully heard often enough this week that he will best serve himself by unplugging his phone and keeping away from his computer; in the market, small fools never get what they are after by rushing in. Besides, the market?s institutional investors - its big money men - do not want an unseemly panic, a public running of capitalism?s most savage dogs, and so there will...
NURSING NIGHTMARE For-profit nursing homes give worse care than public and not-for-profit ones, the first large-scale comparative study finds. Investor-owned homes provided 27% fewer nursing hours per patient and were almost 50% more likely to be cited for deficiencies in administration and care...
...reads in the bathtub, good news and bad news have always been in the ear of the beholder. Traditionally, bad economic news for Main Street is celebrated by Wall Street - it means the Fed is more likely to cut rates - while a favorable economic report can be cause for investor alarm, portending monetary tightening down the road...
...telling that to folks who lost the ranch listening to glowing stock opinions of star analysts like Henry Blodget at Merrill Lynch. The wounded want blood. Just last week Merrill revealed that it had settled a case with an investor who lost $800,000 in part, the investor says, by following Blodget's advice. Merrill says there is no mention of Blodget in the settlement, and it merely wanted to avoid arbitration expense. In any event, the settlement was considerable: $400,000. Although most arbitration cases lack precedential value, you can imagine that tech-IPO underwriters will be hearing from...
SEEK OTHER OPTIONS Why invest $10,000 in stocks for a $1,000 return when $1,000 in futures options may yield the same amount? Because there's a risk of losing much more than you have invested. That said, investors experienced in derivatives risk and strategy can use new brokerage websites dedicated to options. Others can study up with groups such as Optionetics.com an investor- education company. But remember, as a company official says, if you're not careful, "it's entirely possible to get hosed...