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Euroland's newly unified financial markets--highly liquid and investor friendly--will rival those of Wall Street. Meanwhile, greater ease of movement for factories and goods will force euro-zone companies to become more competitive and attractive to investors. And with the euro, American businesses and travelers could save as much as 50% of the transaction costs they now pay to convert dollars into multiple European currencies. Says David Bowers, a European investment strategist with Merrill Lynch in London: "This will be the biggest shock to the global financial system since the move away from fixed exchange rates...
Here you, the individual investor, have the edge on me, the professional money manager. Buying the high-yield bonds of individual companies, as I would have to do, would leave me vulnerable to the junk market's current illiquidity (expressed as the large gap between the price at which you can buy and sell the same bond). But you can buy shares in a diversified junk-bond mutual fund with a good record, such as Fidelity High Income or Vanguard High-Yield Corporate Portfolio. You'll get a high yield and the potential for capital gains when the market steadies...
...stock-touting scams. Chris Ullman, the SEC's director of public affairs, calls it the "experiment in democratized investing": Nearly everybody has money in the market these days. And with two 24-hour news channels, a profusion of financial news-related web sites, and an ever-expanding class of investor-targeted Money-like magazines, the press will bear plenty of responsibility if this record-size herd panics and stampedes the markets right into another...
...York Times and thestreet.com, counterbalanced by a mutual fund guru and a Yale economist. Everyone agreed on the easy part: Business news has never been better business. But there was fear in the air -- even the most bearish press coverage has had little effect on the individual investor's buy-now-and-hold-forever ethos that has fed the current seven-year bull market. Everybody listens, but no one ever sells. Which poses the big questions: If and when a crash starts, what should the press say? Which analysts -- pessimists or optimists -- should they interview? Because a heavily invested America...
...Whatever the eventual outcome, the SEC will continue to aggressively combat fraud, promote investor education and diligently work to ensure that our markets remain the most resilient, innovative and transparent in the world," he said...