Word: marketization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...market remains more hotly contested than the one for sport-utility vehicles, which account for 18% of all U.S. car and truck sales. Chrysler has spent more than $2.65 billion to expand the interior and improve the ride of its new Jeep Grand Cherokee, which will cost about $250 less than the 1998 model because features like the CD player will no longer be extra. Chrysler hopes to overtake the Ford Explorer as the market leader. But moving up will be tough in the increasingly crowded SUV category. Newcomers include the Lexus RX300, which competes with the Cherokee on price...
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...
...equity market, the list of stocks posting new lows in their price has been littered with quality, brand-name cyclical companies--Case, Deere, Goodyear, Union Carbide, Whirlpool--which could rebound sharply if recession is averted. Quality commodity producers--Phelps Dodge, Reynolds Metals, U.S. Steel--sell at prices previously seen only during the harshest of downturns. If these stocks stay down too long, you can bet that larger companies will make takeover bids...
Investors usually look no further than their medicine chest or refrigerator for their long-term stock ideas. Sometimes, though, you have to look in your laundry room or garage. The value in today's market lies not in "defensive" names--the Mercks and the Proctor & Gambles, which are priced dearly on recession fears--but rather in stocks and bonds of companies that need a strong economy to push them higher. Wall Street's newfound pessimism could give you a chance to buy these normally "risky" instruments at prices at which the risk is more than amply compensated and nothing lies...
Josh Dare, a Divx spokesman, admits that the format won't appeal to everyone. Market research showed that people who prefer staying home and watching a video to going out for a movie and dinner were especially receptive to the endless viewing possibilities of Divx. "Think of it this way: you've got a video collection you're starting for $4.50 a movie," says Dare. Me? I'd rather go out for dinner...