Word: marketization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Further growth may spring from the hobbling of foreign competitors. For 15 years Japanese banks have battled for market share in U.S. real estate and corporate lending. At times they have undercut U.S. banks to the point where the business became unprofitable. But the Japanese banks hold so many bad loans in Asia that they are scaling back dramatically in the U.S. European banks aren't faring much better. Both trends should boost profits for U.S. lenders...
...these stocks will sell off on Tuesday and Wednesday. Nevertheless, I am betting they will come roaring back soon. With or without a Fed rate cut, I am buying into a group that is nowhere near its highs at a time when most stocks have recovered nicely. In this market, nothing stays out of favor for long. When the world's growth recovers, these stocks will surge back to much higher valuations. I'm betting we will look back and marvel that we got this second chance to buy high-quality financials at a discount...
...dingly dells of Titania and Queen Mab bordered on the badlands of sex, drugs and hallucination. The last two, especially, were never far away, and all three pervade Christina Rossetti's extraordinary narrative poem of the symbolic rape of a girl by the "Little People," Goblin Market. In painting the action was milder, but fairies were shown appearing in dreams to maidens whose sleep, as the phials by the bedside make clear, was induced by opiates. Then there were the magic mushrooms, which famously appear in Sir John Tenniel's illustration for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland--the stoned...
...disgusting diet of microbrews, cigars and fancy bagels, served up by Wall Street in recent years, has left fad-loving investors dizzy, nauseated and burned. Predictably, financial chefs are pushing a new dish: health food. At first blush, the "natural products" industry looks like just another of the stock market's fleeting love interests. The group tumbled hard this summer, led by a 78% drop in the shares of pill peddler General Nutrition. It was eerily reminiscent of the 75% crash at Boston Beer (brewer of Sam Adams) in 1996 and the 84% plunge that started at Consolidated Cigar about...
...Retailers. Whole Foods Market, General Nutrition and Wild Oats Markets. General Nutrition may be the pick. It's among the biggest, with $1 billion in annual revenue. With a price-earnings ratio of just 10, it trades at a discount to both its growth rate (20%) and the average P/E of other stocks of similar size...