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...typical of how individuals can get burned when they rush into a stock on a hunch, rumor, hope or partial information. With EntreMed, many placed buy orders for last Monday morning "at the market," with no inkling that the market price had swelled sevenfold without a posted trade. The pros knew. They saw the backlog of buy orders that had built up over the weekend...
Another information edge the pros enjoy is "real-time" stock quotes. You may not know it, but the NASDAQ quotes you get from CNBC, and quotes on most free Websites, are delayed 15 min. That delay can kill you when a stock is falling a point every 60 sec. And, let's be frank, a story in the New York Times or TIME can't take the place of in-depth analysis, although journalists can add valuable information...
...Morgan Stanley Dean Witter is convinced that inflation and higher rates are just around the bend. That's all I need to hear. There's enough muscle on both sides of the hinge to keep any momentum from carrying too far. I'll worry when the pros all line up on one side...
...While the speed of the deal took analysts by surprise, the disparity didn't. Daimler, after all, is an automotive colossus, the second largest carmaker in Europe. "German auto pros will tell you directly -- Daimler is buying Chrysler," reports TIME's Bonn Bureau Chief Jordan Bonfante. "Germany is buying the U.S., and they've got deep pockets...
Most Harvard students are pros at handling stress. However, thanks to randomization, each spring a first-year rite of passage often becomes one of the most stressful experience of students' lives, one that cannot be overcome by good organization or even a few all-nighters...