Word: mutually
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Much of the money propping up share prices comes from small savers who have put their money into mutual funds simply because returns on alternative investments have got so low. With money-market deposits and CDs barely eking out 2% in interest, individuals poured a record $11.3 billion into stock mutual funds in March, snapping up shares so fast that managers barely had time to invest all the cash. Buyers feasted on all kinds of funds, from those that purchase slow-growth utility stocks to aggressive acquirers of speculative new firms. But the binge failed to satisfy the public...
...jump in interest rates would also clobber the bond market, to which mutual-fund buyers have flocked as well. Bonds took off on a powerful rally last November that has pushed long-term yields to their lowest level in 20 years (the higher a bond's price, the lower its interest yield). A spurt in interest rates would have the opposite effect, halting the boom and sending bond prices spiraling down...
Liem said he felt a "mutual distrust" between him and Volpp, but Volpp said last night that she felt she did not have a chance to voice her opinion on Thursday, and said she still trusted Liem...
...better off deciding what portion of your money you really intend for the long term, and then investing it yourself in two or three no-load mutual funds, or even just an S&P index fund. You, too, will do about average each year, and save most of that...
...MUTUAL FUNDS. The problem with throwing money into stock-market mutual funds -- everybody's doing it -- is just that: everybody's doing it. Maybe buying into the market at an all-time high will become the new way to get rich. But something tells me that even without the 3% wrap fee, people who've never invested in the market before shouldn't start now, at least not in any big way. But if you do start now, remember two things: 1) you can get professional management and diversification through mutual funds; 2) buy no-load funds, the ones that...