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So what stocks would I look to add to my portfolio if I needed to add just a bit more U. S. spice to the stew?

Just as dotcom stocks were driven to ridiculously high levels, currencies can get out of line with economic fundamentals.

Back in 2009, armies of television pundits used to shout about stocks all day long, while up-to-the-minute prices whirred across screens.

Throughout the market drama of the past few months, stocks have tended to follow credit downwards, with a lag of a few weeks.

People who regard themselves as risk-averse will assemble portfolios of highly similar stocks that all seem to be 'safe. '

What analysts would like to see now is a strong January rally on heavy volume, suggesting investors are pouring new money into U. S. stocks.

"I've been trying to get some more but all the stocks have run out, " he said as he handed them over in fistfuls to desperate customers.

This hardly adds up to the sort of news that should scare, say, shareholders in the world's largest mining stocks and German midcaps.

If they were to spend some of that cash on expanding their businesses or rewarding shareholders, it could boost stocks, analysts say.

How much do such fears hurt stocks?

Before joining the bank, Wang was a chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission in charge of stocks and investment funds.

Japanese stocks are back in vogue, at least for now, despite lingering worries over dismal economic prospects and the strong yen.

With Italy under strain, along with Spain, European corporate bonds began to feel the pinch Monday, along with stocks across the continent.

Usually among the first to go are small stocks and those of companies most dependent on a strong economy.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI), commonly just referred to as "The Dow" , is an average of the price of 30 stocks.

Anecdotal evidence from corporate treasurers suggests that perhaps a third of the bank loan explosion this year has ended up in stocks.

Then there was the ban on short selling (borrowing a share and selling it, to profit when its share price goes down) in financial stocks.

He said the volumes had been concentrated in a handful of stocks reflecting what he termed a "traders' market" .

If you want consistent access to the stocks of these Wall Street darlings, you're likely to have trouble finding it on Main Street.

Since the year 2006, our company has no more connection with your company as of stocks or business.

It is not yet clear how much worse things will get as existing stocks run down.

How much did the tycoon lose in the stocks market?

It is an astounding thing to have to tell, but this man, though he knew about stocks and shares, had no real mastery of his tie.

Jitters about whether the emergency loan package would be enough to stem the euro zone's sovereign debt crisis also hammered Spanish stocks.

For at least a generation, financial professionals have urged mutual-fund investors to put more money in stocks than in bonds.

Banking stocks have been falling heavily since the global financial turmoil began to unravel.

My advice: Stop trying to figure out the direction of the stock market, and worry more about the value of individual stocks.

But it is hard to see Chinese stocks' vertical ascent going on much longer without a pause for an almost vertical decline.

What I've done in the case of these two stocks is factor stock-specific risk into my definition of cheap.

Investors appeared to be unwilling to hold big positions in stocks ahead of the weekend and any news on Ireland's crisis.

His money is all tied up in stocks.

Stocks have generally been a good investment, at least when held for a considerable period.

These structured notes can be linked to the performance of an index or to a basket of stocks, or other assets.

But it's less of a stretch to see this mainland spending at least put some life into consumer- or stimulus-related stocks.

The price of copper - and of copper stocks - doubled in a little over a year.

And they have been behaving as though a cyclical turn is in the offing for a while, with cyclical companies beating more defensive stocks.

Petrochemical plants that would continue to run for the duration of the holidays would have to secure feed stocks this week, he said.

This summer's grain crisis will pass, and stocks of food will, for a while at least, recover.

Where stocks are traded has become less important than how much those trades cost.

The Shanghai Composite Index was almost unchanged Friday and traders said the policy shift was already priced into stocks.

In his multiple-edition book Stocks for the Long Run, Jeremy Siegel comments on the questionable history of gold for the U. S. investor.

Most of the strategic thinking occurring in Asia involves creating alliances to share technology or to trade stocks of another bourse.

Until just a few weeks ago, investors had been willing to pay a high price for stocks in expectations of a jump in earnings growth.

Technology stocks should be able to outperform banks stocks since the Goldman Sachs issues cannot be resolved in the near term.

What was an acceptable premium when the deal was hatched turned into a gaping discount as Chinese stocks surged.

He said the price of oil was at such high levels in part because developed countries' stocks were below their five-year averages.

What you and I as investors now want to know is what stocks are going to make money from health care reform.

Experts say it will take at least two years of good harvests to build enough stocks to buffer prices.

He continued to put up excellent returns until the mid -1990s , when tech stocks started to dominate the market .

But he said the extra research had strengthened his conviction in other US-listed Chinese stocks.

Does it mean a generalized wipeout for all stocks is directly in front of us or that this was just an especially brutal correction?

The notion that these stocks are bound to enjoy huge gains longer term depends on the definition of what the long term is.

Wang Lijun, a garlic broker, told the Wall Street Journal that garlic beats any other kind of investment, including stocks and real estate.

So far, stocks have shown amazing resilience in the face of bad news, and a stubborn refusal to put in a major correction of 10% or more.

Morningstar compared the average performance of long-short mutual funds with that of a portfolio of stocks and bonds.

The stocks are mainly issued through a special market in a way similar to that of bond issuance.

The hedges had made close to half a billion dollars and stood to make more as the stocks continued to fall.

Many analysts believe that stocks are again in such a turbulent period, and that this rally could lead to another slump.

If you are going to be investing in stocks for the next 20 years, the rational response to a bull market should be one of disappointment.

But when economic data continued to suggest that growth would remain positive, if sluggish, U. S. stocks began to look like a bargain.

The stock market can be a good place to invest some of your money, but it is also risky, especially if you do not know much about stocks.

But at least it's trying to clear its name and, in the process, bring back some credibility to US-listed China stocks.

two years after its ipo , torch lost seasoned issue and stocks dividend because its return on net asset did not meet the bottom requirement.

If her dividends from the two stocks total $220 per year, how much did she invest in each stock?

Stocks offer some safety. "If I could choose cash, government bonds or stocks, for the long term, I'd take stocks. " Faber said.

Property and financial stocks were among the hardest hit by disappointment that the PBoC had not opted for a bigger rate cut.

Chinese stocks extended their winning run to a fourth session yesterday as hopes of looser monetary policy continued to grip the market.

With economies around the world under siege, it could be at least a year before any of his fiscal policies dramatically affect stocks.

'The problem is we don't have cushions, ' in terms of spare production capacity and spare crude stocks, he said.

Chinese - funded real estate stocks due to over the past few trading days up in a row and suffered profit - taking.

Stocks had their best day in over 5 years. We'll have to see if it's just a one-day wonder.

A Wey spokesman says that the decline in Wey-linked stocks mirrors that of Chinese stocks traded in the U. S. in general.

Until the matter is resolved, mackerel stocks will be the big losers.

I got a desperate email last week from a woman who had sold all her stocks in panic in March and moved the money into bonds.

Academics then found trading costs rose for stocks with bans, while share prices were elevated for only a week and a bit.

That way, you're not affected by the ups and downs of a single company just as you are getting your toes wet in stocks.

Why we're inclined to treat stocks as if they were lottery tickets instead of ownership in an actual company?

Of course, the nice bump stocks are getting in the start of third - quarter trading is probably putting a bit of pressure on Treasurys too.

The stock market is not a casino, but if you move in or out of stocks every time they move a point or two, the market will be your casino.

But they cannot risk the sort of capital that big banks will put up to facilitate trades in stocks.

It's just a matter of time before investors realize that stocks are not worth prices in the top of the range.

And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.

I knew nothing about stocks. But I read everything she wrote and would scan the Wall Street Journal for mentions of her name.

But for the moment, it seems to have made investors more willing to hold stocks.

Those quotations did not represent prices of stocks to me, so many dollars per share. They were numbers. Of course, they meant something.

"It could be the impetus that's needed to push people out of bonds and into stocks, finally, " he said.

Certainly, such trades seem to work when equities rise, although returns are usually less than half as large as those of stocks.

Great sums of money can be made by picking solid stocks beaten down in bear markets.

There is, at least, more solidity to emerging markets than there was to dotcom stocks.

Stocks go up and down, and things may be different tomorrow, but I thought it was worth a moment of reflection today.

Stocks go up and down, and things may be different tomorrow, but I thought it was worth a moment of reflection today.

Prof. Sylla expects to see stocks turn more lastingly upward some time in the next two years.

With more investors coming to believe that the beginning of an economic recovery is approaching, stocks have been advancing.

This helped make up for anaemic demand in the US and Europe, which had been using up their stocks, but now demand there had "stabilised" .

Yet another reminder that investors in Chinese stocks, like Job, need more than a bit of stoicism.

Whether they change their minds, and shift some of that hoard to stocks, could determine how much longer the recent rally continues.

That means the upside potential is limited. Without a doubt, stocks are going to be stuck in a range for a while.

Look on the bright side. We were never daft enough, it seems, to pay the kind of prices for stocks our great-grandparents did.

As we saw in the bathtub example, stocks decrease if the rate of flow into the stock is less than the rate of flow out of the stock.

Almost half(49%) of the women surveyed consider real estate to be a less investment than stocks, compared with 37% of men.

The commotion in Europe was one factor tugging down stocks in the U. S. , where the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 1. 6%.

After years of 'long-short' investing, Mr. von Mueffling and his analysts and traders no longer short, or bet against, stocks at all.

The advantage of housing over financial assets was that stocks did not even maintain their value in real terms .

Simultaneously, volatility has moved to the bottom end of the current range, but similar to stocks has not broken to the upside.

I'd say that the bank's ability to raise even $20 billion in a financial market like this is good sign for Chinese stocks going forward.

Unlike stocks, it is relatively easy to sell a Treasury that you do not already own (a process known as shorting).

Stocks were subdued on both sides of the Atlantic as analysts reflected on a year's progress in cleaning up the banking system.

"Recovery will be slow, but at least reliable, and that should add some tailwinds (for stocks) the rest of the year, " Dueker said.

If it is a bluechip stocks guy, he is often a buyer of the more classical postwar pieces.

Stocks extended gains as the European Commission said the region's economy may grow almost twice as fast as previously forecast this year.

The sentiment for investing in gold or gold company stocks now is nothing but positive.

European stocks have dropped more than U. S. markets this year, creating something of an opportunity, in my view.

U. S. stocks fell sharply for a third straight session Wednesday as recession fears continued to batter sentiment.

With the Dow down 10% over the last five sessions, some of you are probably wondering whether I'm still crazy enough to be buying stocks.

I plan to save some, but I don't like to have money sitting in the bank. I intend to invest in stocks.

But over the last few years, stocks of companies that promise future growth have had the greatest demand.

This "January effect" was that US stocks rose much more in January than in any other month.

And if you are in the market for stocks with decent yields, take a look at some of the blue-chip names knocked down in the panic.

Reflecting the often circular nature of the markets, swoons in stocks around the globe only reinforced the move into yen.

What's clear is that whatever love affair many Americans may have had with stocks is over, at least for the moment.

Just think of how much happier you were to hold stocks three years ago than you are today.

However, they have edged up in recent weeks, helped by an increase in manufacturers' stocks in the US.

Some major Asian stock markets edged downward Tuesday morning as swine flu fears continued to hit stocks across the globe.

" If you think China will deliver on its announced infrastructure spending plans then material stocks should also do well , " he adds .

Gold will never outperform stocks and bonds over the long run, because it does not grow or produce a cash flow.

Among the stocks I'd bought was Molycorp, the only U. S. company in possession of a genuine rare earth mine.

Spanish stocks were under pressure ahead of the meeting and as the government also prepared to test the market with a bond auction.

Exchange-traded funds offer broad baskets of stocks and charge a management fee that's often just a fraction of those at mutual funds.

But banking stocks, Frank Gong did not look bad, he said that is still good.

He took advantage of the season by selling out all the stocks .

A big part of the problem in January was that global economic news wasn't strong enough to keep investors buying stocks.

While stocks give owners certain rights, they do not carry obligation in case the company defaults or faces a lawsuit.

Stocks continued to fall over subsequent weeks, finally bottoming out on November 13, 1929.

I'd look to put real money into some Japanese stocks right around the U. S election in November.

For each weighting, the test would be run thousands of timesto get a thorough sense of how those stocks performed.

as investors continued to dump banking and insurance stocks amid fears over the spreading sovereign debt crisis.

When a company issues new stocks, it may make a pricing plan in light of its business operation and financial status.

But a year ago, he dove for safety in blue-chip stocks like IBM, Merrill Lynch, General Motors, and Delta Air Lines.

The drama in the stocks of banks at the centre of the rumours, with Royal Bank of Scotland the latest hapless victim, did not permit that.

Some technical and sentiment indicators auger for a near-term drop in stocks, but investors remain optimistic over the long haul.

"The bargain stage for Chinese stocks is over but it is too early to talk about real bubbles just one year after the crisis, " he said.

The manager said he was happy to continue taking risks and buy stocks the rest of the market was shunning.

Can a system learn to pick stocks better than a human (or for that matter, a monkey with a dartboard)?

A further headwind for small cap investors: The stocks have already outperformed for a decade. The cycle may be due to turn.

The question investors have to ask is whether stocks will tumble as a result, showing that the correlation remains firmly in place.

Over the past two centuries, stocks have done dramatically better for investors than have bonds or any other asset class.

One possible catalyst for trouble is the withdrawal of government stimulus, which put a floor under stocks a year ago.

It's beginning to look a bit like 1983: Stocks are soaring, unemployment is above 10% and the sci-fi TV miniseries 'V' is back.

So it would seem as stocks greeted some of the strongest signs yet of a global recovery with a hefty sell-off.

As a resolute technophobe, Buffett sat out the incredible run-up in technology stocks during the late 1990s.

U. S. stocks fell as worries about fiscal turmoil in Europe and a drop in technology stocks offset positive reports on the U. S. economy.

Stocks may continue their decline, but I believe it would be a serious mistake for investors to panic and sell out.

Let me set up the stock market problem facing investors now and then show you how target prices can help solve it for individual stocks.

American stocks and bond yields fell sharply as concerns mounted that the economy might be in for a slowdown.

Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.

Also, notice that, in the thread, you do not modify the stocks member variable, as you did previously.

One concern then was that new stocks might divert cash from existing shares at a shaky time for the market and global economy.

This downturn will not be over until share prices of financial stocks stabilise, and thus far there is no sign of that occurring.

Bank stocks have continued to plummet since the program was started in mid-October.

With just a day left in October, stocks are on course to post their biggest one-month loss since the 1987 crash.

Health-care stocks are now the best-performing sector of the year, up more than 14% in 2011, the sector's best start to a year since 1998.

So, although Stack isn't ready to declare the bear dead, he currently recommends that clients keep 58% of their assets in stocks.

A woman surnamed Wang sold all her stocks days ago and is now waiting for a correction in China's runaway stock market.

You'll rest more easily if you know you don't need to tap your stocks and stock funds when they are down in order to meet expenses.

The science will move from static estimates of stocks to a sense of the system's dynamic flows.

If your answer to any of those questions is no, then you should think twice before sinking more money into stocks.

But a slide into a second recession would require firms to cut back again on stocks, capital spending and jobs.

That's where the action is. These stocks' liquidity is very high, and their volatility tends to be good.

The stocks coming in not long after afternoon opening, could get out of the position at high points.

"We never buy stocks when we see prices soaring. We buy stocks because we are confident of the company's growth, " he said.

It's impossible to miss the fact that stocks, real estate and bonds all make for decent investments (at least most of the time).

Small stocks make up less than 10% of the U. S. market, midsized stocks 20% and large stocks at least 70%.

Inventories are low, he said, as companies have reduced stocks in the face of the recession.

Asian stocks enjoyed a strong rally yesterday as expectations of a cut in US interest rates gave a boost to financial and property groups.

It would probably help the positions of a number of investors like Ellman, who buys banks stocks, as well.

How much time do you spend the time on the stocks?

Typically it winds up in one of two places: property or stocks.

And with baby boomers edging closer to retirement, there is less desire to take a chance on U. S. stocks.

Investors are also likely to be looking for any shift out of the defensive stocks they have clung to for months into more cyclical ones.

The a part of the profits were deposited fixed, while another part speculated on stocks, and the rest were used for travelling.

I certainly don't think your portfolio would thank you if you took it through a replay of that October-to-October drop in Chinese stocks.

In other words, the more stocks and bonds you own, the less any one of them can hurt you (think about Enron).

How could an investor identify the best of a set of efficient portfolios of common stocks?

The Federal Reserve, whose meetings lately have had less impact than normal on stocks, is suddenly a focus of concern as well.

Those drops lasted just a few months, and stocks quickly recovered the ground they'd lost.

Mixed reports Thursday from retailers on June sales results have helped boost some individual stocks, but did not widely affect the market.

In the stock market, the last time China began to allow its currency to strengthen, it helped fuel a huge bull market in Asian stocks.

Stocks fell sharply in early trading Tuesday, a day after major indexes posted their biggest gains in more than a year.

It is an emotional trade for stocks. but we need to see whether the rally in stocks can be sustainable.

Chinese stocks climbed to a fresh high as airline shares continued to find support from merger speculation.

The penny stocks fiasco was the result of poor communications, misjudgment and the imperfect system, an independent panel report said.

Some politicians and activists believe attitudes could be changed by tax laws that penalise investors who trade in and out of stocks.

Those quotations did not represent prices of stocks to me, somany dollars per share. They were numbers.

The bank also had another swap strategy involving Italian stocks that generated financial benefits for the firm itself.

When bond yields are very low, as they are now, that could signal that it makes sense to pay more for stocks, in search of a higher return.

Asian stocks hit lows for this month as Beijing's moves to curb property speculation and the stronger yen continued to weigh on bourses.

and bonds strongly beat stocks, only to see stocks make a recovery that has also stalled in the last month.

"I would say that it does not come from our stocks, because we do not use that dry material, " Maj.

Although they have been burned, some of these investors still believe that the stocks soon will indeed hit bottom and turn higher.

Since hunting of the Southern Right Whale ceased, stocks are estimated to have grown by 7% a year.

Bank stocks also dropped throughout Europe as worries about sovereign debt continued to undermine confidence.

In the initial stage of a recovery from a bear market, the stocks that have fallen the most tend to be the ones that rebound the strongest.

If you know nothing about stocks or you don't have a good stock broker, you could easily lose your money.

Most have lots of cash in CDs, low-yield bonds, mutual funds that can be traded within a mutual-fund family, and a few individual stocks.

So are the high values for tech stocks , particularly Facebook, setting investors up for a dangerous fall ? Perhaps.

No one seems to want anything else. Not gold stocks. Not muni bonds. Not defensive equities. Cash, cash, cash.

Still, selling complex CDOs is not the equivalent to making a market in stocks or other widely traded securities.

Much of her capital was locked up in stocks.

If the buyer is a stockist, he will have to purchase and finance stocks on which he may not get his money back for a long time.

When stocks are high, money rates rising, business prosperous, at least half a given fund should be placed in short-term bonds.

'It is one of the stocks I intend to recommend to you, Mr. Jack. It is about eight. How do you know it? '

Investors were scrambling to understand the implications of the disaster and have been absorbed in reshuffling their portfolios of stocks.

Beijing is trying to curb foreign "hot money" coming into China to speculate in stocks and real estate.

Investors are clearly still nervous, but stocks appears to stabilize today in New York even as overseas markets continue to see big decline.

Falling U. S. yields will keep Japanese capital at home, while falling stocks will also boost the currency, he said.

The liquidity of Internet stocks persuaded investors to buy them in the belief they would be able to sell out in time.

As I've said many times, no one can time the market perfectly. I'm in no rush to put that money back into stocks.

So a new growth industry may emerge from the crisis: that of holding and maintaining essential stocks on behalf of manufacturers.

She sold out all the stocks (shares), but then she realized too late that she had succeeded only in killing the golden goose.

"Stocks are overbought and a slight correction would not be unexpected, " says Anthony Conroy, head of trading at BNYConvergEx.

"By any standard measure of risk used by economists, stocks do not appear to be that much riskier than bonds, " says Barberis.

With shark numbers massively depleted, the rays have had a field day devouring scallops, clams and oysters, rapidly reducing stocks.

European stocks climbed, extending the Stoxx Europe 600 Index's biggest two-day advance in a month, as mining shares rallied in London.

I also asked Thomson Reuters to send me the names of the 10 stocks that Wall Street analysts liked the least a year ago.

But if you were among the courageous few who bought and held stocks during and after the Depression, you earned spectacular returns.

To get you closer to a complete answer, though, I think you need to ask a second question: When we ask, "Are stocks cheap? "

Coming off Monday's sell-off, investors seem to have scant appetite to own more stocks.

When tech stocks are outperforming, it is usually a sign that the broad market has room to run.

Ms Olney said: "There has been a mass sell-off of risk and a mad dash into defensive stocks" .

However, he adds, it's hard to see financial stocks rallying without some sign that the housing market is stabilizing.

European stocks were little changed as the region's leaders prepared to begin a two-day summit on the spreading debt crisis.

These for-profit hedge funds look out for their own investors' interests and not that of investors in the stocks they trade.

John Paulson stepped away from his desk to greet a group of clients in his Manhattan offices as stocks tumbled last month.

He said investors should focus on Chinese stocks, yuan bonds and commodities futures relevant to Chinese currency.

The second quarter of this year was the best on record for world stocks and by a wide margin for emerging markets.

On this argument, it is the price of credit that needs to increase to be in line with stocks, not the other way around.

News that some sort of rescue plan was taking shape drove European and global stocks to gains on Thursday.

Traders received some upbeat news about the U. S. economy as well, a day after a jump in unemployment claims helped drive stocks lower.

You know, one of the first stocks I ever owned was Disney.

For many investment pros, the logic for loading up on foreign stocks is simple: U. S. stocks aren't as important as they used to be.

No matter how big the profits of the stock market, stocks are not borrow money, should not all the money invested in the stock market.

The long-hoped-for move of individual investors back into stocks was supposed to bring a wave of money off the sidelines.

Another acquaintance of mine was about to invest whole of his money into stocks of a small company.

Furthermore, after years of underperformance, value stocks look like a bargain.

Foreign-exchange watches said the latest currency slide was sparked by Thursday's broad declines in Asian stocks.

You can sell all of your stocks and sit on the beach, but you cannot cash in the next 10 years of earnings.

Ironically, AES became one of the 10 world stocks recommended by TIME magazine at the beginning of the new century.

Suppose he packed his portfolio with oil stocks. When the crude price rises that would pay off, but it would be a pretty risky portfolio.

If the corporation has no preferred stocks and no changes of common shares, as Solarwind Corporation, the computation is simple.

Shanghai Min'an Gold investment Co is one company that plans to hold on to its gold stocks in expectation of higher prices.