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...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...
...amateur can see that since the start of the year, virtually every Dow rally has stalled just short of the previous high and sell-offs have abated just short of the previous low. Draw the lines, and you get a sideways triangle, or pennant shape, that reveals schizoid investor psychology. On one hand, investors do not believe the market can sustain a rally--so as stocks near their previous highs, sellers charge in early to beat the crowd. But investors don't see a big downdraft coming either--so as stocks approach their previous bottoms, they swoop in to bargain...
FUNDS FOR PEANUTS With so many mutual funds out there touting $2,500 or higher price-tag minimums, a fledgling investor can be discouraged. But there are fund companies that allow investors to open accounts with as little as $250. Below are a few good performers who rank in the top half of their category...
...amusing that a woman is president," she says. In her case they also find it daunting. Late last year the conglomerate was on the verge of insolvency; today, after Lundberg's aggressive restructuring (and a last-minute investment by the French conglomerate Vivendi), cash-flow problems are history and investor confidence is back: the stock price is up 100% since the beginning of the year. Now the former Wall Street banker wants to make Elektrim Poland's foremost producer of interactive Internet content by year's end. "She's ambitious and aggressive, and that's what you have...
Presiding over inter-Korean peace has multiple advantages for the Chinese: South Korea has become a major investor in China's newly capitalist economy, and Beijing is hoping that delivering a more pliant Pyongyang to the negotiating table - as China appears to have done - will cement its ties with Seoul. Besides transferring responsibility for the North Korean basket-case economy to Seoul, it also raises China's prestige as a responsible and powerful regional problem-solver. Beijing wouldn't be at all sad to see the departure of all those U.S. troops from its doorstep, and it would look...