Word: stockings
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...junk bonds; this time it's derivatives. Buying a derivative is taking a bet -- called an option -- on the price of a stock at some future point. The plutonium of the financial world, derivatives are complex financial instruments that, in steady economic times, can churn out megatons of money for investors. Bet badly, though, and you get a meltdown. When Long-Term Capital Management, a high-risk, high-rolling hedge fund based on the formulas of two derivatives Nobelists, went belly-up last month, Greenspan realized that the damage wasn't restricted to the brandy-and-cigars crowd. Banks...
Galbraith has made news in recent days for predicting that the United States is heading into a recession due to a "speculative bubble." He has said that U.S. markets are "very vulnerable right now. Not only the stock market but also the hedge funds and mutual funds...
Wright-Swadel's advice was followed by the week's keynote speech, delivered by Vice President of Fidelity Investment Bart Grenier, who addressed the stock market's effect on jobs today...
Bart Grenier, vice president of Fidelity Investments, discussed the stock market and its impact on job opportunities in Career Week's keynote address yesterday...
...unperturbed in cabinets, there exist theses that challenge the traditional drudgery of topics. Interspersed amongst the hundreds of recent, less engaging synopses, a few unconventional and just plain bizarre titles emerge from the Hollis index. For instance, few economists have ever made a mental connection between the New York Stock Exchange and their bowls of soggy Fruit Loops. It was only a matter of course before new horizons in economics were explored and charted Demand for Ready-to-Eat Cereal and Its Implications for Price Competition, Merger Analysis, and Valuation of New Brands. Men who are befuddled by female...