Word: panic
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Regardless of that possibility we need a Priority One response--particularly the panic alarms," she adds...
Margin calls. Panic. Busted nest eggs. Is this what Alan Greenspan had in mind when he began raising interest rates last June? Well, yes. To a degree anyway. And given discouraging news on inflation last Friday--the CPI has been rising at a 5.8% annual clip this year, the government reported--don't look for Greenspan to stop boosting rates soon. The ominous prospect of more rate increases, along with basic valuation questions, sent both the NASDAQ and the Dow average on another wild ride...
...have shown that unusual volatility is as likely to precede a sharp run-up as a sharp decline. If you're invested for the long haul, why put yourself through the agony of watching short-term declines--especially ones as steep as last Friday's--that tempt you to panic? I don't mean to pick on CNBC. But it's the market leader in televised stock talk, and when the market is sinking, the anchors' grim faces and funereal tones only quicken your despair. Once weaned from hourly updates, you'll find it easier to hold fast to proven...
Just when you thought it was safe to back into the market, someone caused quite a panic on Wall Street Monday by leaking the Justice Department's proposed remedy in the Microsoft antitrust trial to the press this weekend. The reported remedy introduces a new wrinkle to the whole matter: that Microsoft be strictly controlled during the appeals process. This follows talk that any remedy handed down by the court after the years it will take to sort our the appeals would be made moot by advances in technology. According to reports in three major newspapers Monday morning, the Justice...
...friend of mine told me that you eat the animal's fear. Which, if you think about hormones, and adrenaline, and the panic of the flight-or-fight response, it's quite true." - Ashley...