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STABLE-VALUE FUNDS If opening your 401(k) statements has become a gut-wrenching experience, you may want to shift some of your assets into a stable-value fund. With it, you are buying either a portfolio of guaranteed investment contracts or a portfolio of short-to intermediate-term bonds with an insurance feature that guarantees you will not lose money. Since 1999 the typical stable-value fund has returned more than 6% annually. This year the funds are not on track to perform quite that well. One large fund, Scudder Preservation Plus Income, is up just 3% year...
...have more than enough money in safe havens to cover your short-term needs, how will you know when to shift some of it back into stocks? Hugh Johnson, chairman of First Albany Asset Management, says he would wait until the market showed a broad, consistent rise that lasts four to eight weeks. "I know I'll always be a little late to the party," he says. "That's O.K. with me." --With reporting by Cybele Weisser...
...comparing DNA from humans, chimpanzees and other animals, researchers from the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig, Germany, and the University of Oxford in England determined that FOXP2 hardly changed during the evolution of mammals. But their analysis, reported last week in Nature, indicated a subtle genetic shift in the human family tree within the past 200,000 years. "The gene seems to trigger the development of the ability to move the mouth, lips and tongue as well as certain neural processes," says Wolfgang Enard, one of the study's German authors...
...Although amorality renders financial markets efficient, it also renders them inhuman. Some sense of humanity must be introduced." GEORGE SOROS, investor, arguing for a fundamental shift away from laissez-faire thinking...
...medium-term signal; it seems to suppress your appetite between meals, presumably so you can get some work done before you start eating again. What complicates things is that these signals are interconnected; if the level of one hormone falls or rises long enough, the whole system will shift until the hormones fall back to their original levels...