Word: record
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Just two weeks ago, Gyorffy tied the NCAA high jump record with a jump of 1.97 meters at Heptagonals. In that event, a torn shoe kept her from completing all of her attempts...
next highest height, a height that would have been record breaking. Gyorffy's outstanding performance at Heps helped Harvard win its first Heptagonal championship in ten years...
...real name is Yun Soo Oh Park, charged members of his investment club up to $200 a month and then pushed them to buy stocks he was simultaneously selling from his own account. Beyond this practice, known as "scalping," the agency also claims Tokyo Joe lied about his trading record and touted companies without disclosing that he had received shares from the owners as payment for his promotion...
...shift is clearest, though, in hard numbers. In January, investors poured a record $40 billion into stock funds, and $29 billion of it went into aggressive-growth and growth funds--the ones that own NASDAQ stocks. The rest went into sector funds, which are 75% invested in tech. Equity-income funds and growth and income funds (which favor blue chips) had outflows. Bond funds also had outflows--a hefty $10 billion worth...
...that span, the market value of all U.S. stocks increased $2.5 trillion, but NASDAQ stocks alone rose $3.1 trillion. That means non-NASDAQ stocks fell $600 billion. Foreigners are equally gaga. Last year they were net sellers of Treasury bonds for the first time, and they bought a record $107 billion of U.S. stocks. Care to guess which ones...