Article: INVESTMENT TRENDS; Still time to gain with right stocks; Former leaders ready to soar again, manager says

Confused? You're not the only investor.

Take this sampling of what Wall Street has been wrestling with in recent months:

-- When Japan's central bank doubled interest rates to 0.5% in late February, the Chinese stock market dropped 10% and the U.S. stock market had its worst day since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

-- The U.S. unemployment rate dropped to 4.4% in March, its lowest level in six years.

-- Sales of existing single-family homes fell 8.4% to about 6.5 million in 2006, the biggest annual decline since a 14.8% drop in 1989. With homes on the market longer and prices drifting downward, as well as rising food and energy costs, some fear a recession.

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