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What's ahead for stocks? Trying to predict short-term market moves, of course, is one of the quickest ways to look like an idiot. And yet there are clues to be mined. (See pictures of the Top 10 scared traders...
...course, a host of other issues that might swing the market one way or another, from the fates of Citigroup and the auto-industry bailout to the Federal Reserve's mid-December meeting, when another cut in interests may be in the offing. Add it all up and the short-term view is - surprise - more uncertainty. "Sometimes we have year-end rallies, and we definitely could use one. We could all use a break from this bear market," says Ed Yardeni, president of Yardeni Research. "But just because we need it doesn't mean we're going...
...other experts in the field are not completely sold. Lori Mosca, a professor of cardiology at Columbia University Medical Center, praised Ridker’s study but said that it is important to weigh the short-term benefits against potential long-term effects...
...Ridker said that since this the study examined healthy individuals, researchers generally anticipate low short-term rates of disease. He added that the effect was “so striking between active therapy and placebo that an independent monitoring board felt compelled to stop the trial early, also resulting in low event rates...
...global financial crisis changed how your manage your business? The biggest challenge of CEOs today is how can you maintain your long-term strategy and at the same face short-term obligations. Short-term, everybody is paying a lot of attention to cash. If you optimize cash, that doesn't mean you're optimizing profit. So you have to make choices about what is most important. You have to continue to prepare for the future. At the same time, if you want to be able to see the future, you need to make sure you are doing the right thing...