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...news is that investors have shown they are willing to overlook the bad climate when specific company fundamentals improve. Last week tech giant Cisco reported a quarterly profit that was 1[cent] a share better than expected - and the market soared for a day. Especially encouraging were Cisco's wider profit margin and depleted inventory. But it will take a drumbeat of such news to turn around negative market psychology...
...there's one conflict of interest that the SEC will never get at: Everybody on Wall Street benefits when the markets go up. Deals get bigger. Commissions get fatter. Decisions get easier - just run with the bulls - and CNBC anchors' smiles get wider, because the more people making money in the market, the more viewers tuning in to hear what the analysts, economists, CEOs and Warren Buffett think is the best place to put your chips...
...team studied, stocks beat bonds and cash by an average of 4 to 6 points a year. From this, the scholars draw a startling conclusion: putting all your money in stocks is a bad idea. Why? First, most previous research showed stocks beating bonds and cash by a much wider 6 1/2 to 8 1/2 points a year. Second, a big chunk of the rise in stock returns came from the democratization of investing, starting in the 1970s. With mutual funds offering instant diversification, stocks suddenly became safer. "That can't happen again," says Dimson...
...Bush administration has been eager to certify Sharon as in compliance with Washington's requirements - adjusted substantially to accommodate the Israeli leader's initial recalcitrance - and move on in search of talks aimed at reducing regional tensions that imperil wider U.S. interests. But that may be wishful thinking, not only because of the problems of implementing a truce, but also because the political horizon looks as gloomy as the security...
...caramel” range that most make-up lines feature in their ads. One would assume that with the advent of honey-hued Halle Berry in almost every Revlon ad, make-up companies would do a better job of advertising foundation and other make-up products in a wider variety of colors. But it seems that caramel is pretty much the only sweet to make it main stream…I suppose the big wigs haven’t developed a taste for dark chocolate...