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Article: Houston Chronicle Your Money column.
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- August 23, 2004
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By Shannon Buggs, Houston Chronicle Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Aug. 23--As soon as she finished listening to the message on her cell phone, Celia Schwarz shared the secret she just heard.
The furniture saleswoman told her manager and a co-worker that a woman had left a hot stock tip on her voice mail by mistake.
They searched the Internet for the ticker symbol the caller talked about and found it belonged to a local company developing early detection tests for breast cancer and Alzheimer's disease.
Then, Schwarz called her brokerage firm for a quote on the stock's price.
"It was like $3.46," she said. "And I ...