Word: stockings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...take auto shop in high school, never bought a can of STP, never watched a car race. And here I am on my way to Tennessee for the first of three NASCAR races in four weeks. The mission is to meet Jeff Gordon, the 27-year-old stock-car-racing superstar who sells everything from toothpaste to soft drinks on national television, and find out why so many racing fans loathe...
...want a piece of me? Think you're such a hotshot e-trader that you should quit your day job to pit your wits against me and my fellow professionals, who swing around millions of dollars in stock a day without blinking? At one time, I would have laughed if you had even contemplated such a thing. You couldn't match my access to conference calls, information or quick brokers. You couldn't afford the $1,500 a month you'd need for a Reuters, Dow Jones or Bloomberg wire...
...truth is there has never been a better time to attempt to trade for a living. The opportunities for short-term profits in the stock market, given the new wild swings we have seen, can't be dismissed as unworthy or foolish. That hasn't been true for most of this 17-year bull market, when only wacky, thin, corrupt or heavily shorted stocks jumped enough to make a short-term triumph possible. And for most of that period, commissions were so high that they ate into those gains for all but the biggest traders, who got discounts from their...
...cost: $800 million) but also launched the Disney Magic ($350 million), its first cruise ship in Florida. A second ship, the Disney Wonder, is on its way. Analysts see so little economic rationale for these expenditures that they've begun to label the ships "Tragic" and "Blunder." Disney's stock price has been taking on water. Yet the company still has enough land in central Florida to add three more parks. Indeed, there are rumors that a sports-themed park (Disney owns ESPN and several pro teams) is on the drawing board...
...kids, the end of quality time is nigh. The bigwigs at Nasdaq have set in motion a plan to conduct an evening trading session, allowing brokers and online investors alike to buy and sell the index's 100 largest stocks from 5:30 until as late as 9:00 or 10:00 p.m. E.T. "This is very much a product of the stock-crazed world that we're living in right now," says TIME Wall Street columnist Daniel Kadlec. "A bear market in the next month or two, and this plan will quietly go away -- temporarily. In the end, though...