Word: stockings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...foreign investment just when it is most sorely needed. To make matters worse, Malaysia looks ready to use its controls to ease pressure on Mahathir's debt-ridden cronies instead of attempting to fix its shattered economy. Meanwhile, Hong Kong authorities find themselves stuck with $15 billion worth of stock that they purchased in August to prop up the market. Selling the shares now would drive down prices...
Balance your purchases of stocks and stock mutual funds among large, midsize and smaller firms or funds. If you buy stocks, spread them among a variety of industries. You might, for instance, buy shares in a well-run oil-service company, which prospers when oil prices are rising, and in a great car company, which profits most when oil prices are falling...
...invest in a hedge fund? Historically, these funds have delivered superior long-term returns--in falling markets as well as rising ones. Hedge funds are so named because they're better able to hedge risks. They are meant to play both offense and defense. They can bet on some stocks to rise and others to fall. Even when they bet on a stock to rise, they can buy a separate position that cuts their losses if that stock falls sharply. And they can invest in any instrument--stocks, bonds, pork bellies--in any country they want...
Options trading is too complex for the typical investor, but there are other good ways you can hedge risk. The first is to balance your portfolio in a way that lets you sleep at night. You should buy stocks for superior long-term returns, but any money you'll need in the next three years should be in cash or bonds. Bonds also reduce your portfolio's volatility because, as we saw last week, their value often rises when the stock market falls...
...problem with the stock market is that it has become alienated from the real world by its own insane pace [SPECIAL REPORT, Sept. 14]. If short-term investment in stocks was made impossible, the market would cure itself of this insanity. The connection between actual company profits and stock prices now seems thin indeed, and the notion that you invest in a company to get a share of that company's profits has almost been lost. To buy shares in a company for less than a year can't possibly be deemed serious. Profits from such short-term investments ought...