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Article: INVESTMENT TRENDS; Still time to gain with right stocks; Former leaders ready to soar again, manager says
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- April 16, 2007
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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.
We're in a classically ...
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