Word: investors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...average individual investor's portfolio rose 2.7 percent in the just-completed third quarter, breaking a six-month losing streak, according to the latest figures from MONEY Magazine's Small Investor Index released on Friday. The third-quarter increase was enough to virtually erase the losses the typical individual investor took during the first two quarters of the year. The biggest gainer during the third quarter was gold, which soared 14.9 percent on fears of higher inflation. Stocks were up 5 percent on average. Bonds eked out an 0.6 percent gain. And yields on money funds and CDs climbed...
...stock market had its own version of Reg. Q. To spare Wall Street from the menace of competition, commissions on stock trades were fixed by the feds. Big buyers could haggle for a better rate, but the small investor paid in full...
...party at Chalone to feast on oysters and salmon -- and sample freely the group's products. "These people are absolutely rabid Chalone fans," says company spokeswoman Sally Gordon of the 1,200 shareholders who showed up for this year's affair. "You can't buy brand loyalty like that." Investor Peter Truce, 43, says he is not worried about the stock: "It's not a major part of my portfolio. It's a fun part of my portfolio...
...dashing private life. Several of the men whom Jackie later found attractive -- her husband, her father-in-law Joseph Kennedy and, later, Aristotle Onassis -- bore some resemblance to her glamorous papa. Her mother Janet was steelier, both more conservative and more ambitious. Black Jack was an exuberant but careless investor; the Wall Street crash of 1929 finished his market ride. His marriage began to falter then, and it ended when Jackie was nine. Janet then married into one of the richer branches of the vast Auchincloss clan...
...have been negotiating in person. Bronfman has to decide whether to buy enough additional Time Warner shares to push Seagram's holdings past the 15% mark. If he does, Levin must ponder whether to activate a device known as a "poison pill" designed specifically to prevent any "unfriendly" investor from acquiring more than 15%. Essentially, the company would issue enough new stock to knock a 15% holding down to about 5% or less. That, in effect, would force Bronfman's hand: Seagram could avoid having its ownership diluted only by making an all- cash offer to buy up every last...