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...want to make it to Round 2 had better hope Santa is good to them. Even before a single retail site burst online, America had too many retail stores. By 2000, it also had too many e-tail stores. Result: shuttered sites, struggling shops and shredded profits across the sector. Poor performance by such companies as the Gap, Nordstrom and J.C. Penney added to the dotcom carnage in the stock market. And new worries that consumer spending is slowing, presaging a recession, have made this Christmas the most critical in years...
This is not a call to sell all tech stocks. Lighten up, maybe. There are plenty of other things to own, including bonds. Before tech lifts off again, some surprise sector will have soared. Who thought utilities would rise 40% this year? Reasonable candidates to charge ahead next are energy (if oil stays over $25 per bbl.) and regional banks (if severe credit problems don't surface and the Fed cuts rates). Get rid of margin debt, definitely. And lower your expectations for future returns. But stay invested. Everyone in my small survey expected the Dow to be hitting...
...exhibition's auto-eroticism sector does, however, include one triumphal fetish--Larry Fuente's Derby Racer, 1975. Like some pious Latino decorating a shrine, Fuente glorified a convertible jalopy with an undulating crust of shards, beads, mirror fragments and pearly gewgaws. It is still a convincing, near folk object--an automotive equivalent, perhaps, to Simon Rodia's towers in the Watts neighborhood of downtown Los Angeles...
...AIDS represents worldwide inequality that is played out in the health sector more than anywhere else," Taylor said...
BIODIVERSITY Specialty health funds have outperformed all major fund categories this year. The average health fund, according to Morningstar, has 25% of its portfolio in biotechs. But if you're already invested in this volatile sector, a more diversified equity fund--which on average holds only 1.6% in biotechs--could help spread your risk. Be careful how you choose. Some so-called diversified funds will only increase your exposure...