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...with another company. Presumably the merged company will be more efficient and more profitable, which is good for its stock price. Now Hoffman boots up her computer every morning to track stock-market investments that have earned her $76,000 in just the past year. "I'm a risk taker," she says. "I'm not thinking of pulling out." Neither is Mike Pearson, 48, regional director of a San Francisco company that sells television listings. Pearson says he made more than $1,000 on his mutual funds two weeks ago and likes the bull market just...
...twelve-year old Valentine Fedotova, who plays Vania's protector, the daughter of his captor. Silent at first, her incredible eyes convey innocence while her daily life conveys drudgery. With her mother dead, she is the woman of the house, the cook, the cleaner, the farmer and the care-taker. She cannot help but care for the boy Vania, whom she enchants with dance, jingling bells, bread and kindness, a rare commodity...
Unlike its predecessor, JB Oxford & Co. would be a discount stockbroker--essentially a passive order taker for customers who wanted to save money on commissions...
...Kott connection may be disturbing, but does it matter to JB Oxford's clients? After all, Oxford portrays itself as little more than a passive order taker for customers who make their own investment decisions. In fact, Oxford customers can have their own "personal" brokers, and some of the brokers steer clients to specific stocks, especially stocks in which Oxford is a market maker, since the firm makes much bigger profits that way. (A market maker can sell out of its own inventory, rather than as a middleman between buyer and seller.) Brokers have every incentive to recommend such stocks...
Ellison, who was left a quadrapalegic after a 1990 car accident, shares her Thayer Hall room with her mom, who serves as her care-taker...