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...framed by a spectacular slide in Enron's stock price from over $80 in January to $30 in October to less than $4 at Wednesday?s opening bell - and punctuated only hours later with the one-two punch that looks to have finished Enron off. That would be the downgrade Wednesday morning of Enron?s corporate debt to "junk" status - a bit of paperwork that instantly adds something like $10 billion in debt to Enron?s towering stack of bills - and the abrupt termination by Dynegy of the planned rescue...
...really tough loss for us and that was the kind of loss that we felt last year. It was a wake-up call because no one wanted to feel that way again. We were determined to prove to ourselves that we weren’t going to slide...
...refusing to slide, Harvard advanced to the championship game, coming from behind against a team that defeated the Crimson 92-73 last year...
...amount of aid the international community has pledged as a carrot to coax the fractious Afghans. The three days of talks that began Tuesday in Koenigswinter are aimed at finding agreement among various Afghan factions over some form of transitional g overnment to replace the Taliban - and avert a slide back into the civil war of the pre-Taliban era. Such a government would convene a broadly representative 'loya jirga' grand assembly within six months to discuss how the country ought to be ruled, and conduct national elections within two years...
Harvesting losses with a mutual fund is a little easier. Let's say you purchased $10,000 of a large-cap growth fund, and now, with the market's slide, the fund is worth less than $7,600--a likely scenario, considering that the average large-cap growth fund is down more than 24% this year to date. You could sell the large-cap growth fund and invest the money in another fund family's large-cap growth fund. Because the funds will probably have similar holdings, you won't alter your asset-class mix, and your investment strategy stays...