Word: investor
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...buddies were intrigued by Microsoft after the antitrust ruling, so he went online to snap up stock. The price jumped $20 a share. It was a classic case of right place, right time. Except that Jason Marchione is not your classic investor. His lucky tip came in the middle of fifth-grade computer class. "There's that famous quote," says Jason, 11. "Buy low. Sell high. Make mad dough...
...binding transactions, such as buying stocks. But these new mini-masters of the universe have their ways of playing the market. Jason's mom, for example, opened a $3,500 account but allows him to manage it with her as financial adviser. The average age of Stein Roe Young Investor Fund's 231,248 shareholders is 10. "I check the newspaper to see how the stocks are doing that I invested heavily into," says Bethany Murphy, 11, who came by a hypothetical $50,000 portfolio when her Mount Laurel, N.J., newspaper ran a contest to track readers' stock picks. Bethany...
...anonymous investor received approval...
...cases the code will get even more indecipherable. And while the field levels, there may be less information overall as companies freak out over what they can say. Some 42% of companies polled say they will reduce communications to avoid running afoul of the new rule, reports the National Investor Relations Institute...
...swing vote, anyway? (Besides soccer moms, I mean.) Gore seems convinced it's the blue-collar class, and he's aiming right at them. The Bush camp envisions an "investor class" that believes in capitalism's invisible hand sufficiently to bet on both Social Security privatization and school vouchers. This would seem to give Bush an edge with disengaged types who consider federal government largely irrelevant - but don't be so sure. Gore has an in with them...