[TS] High & Low Finance: Market Shock: AAA Rating May Be Junk
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The question is whether the market can continue rising as investors learn that the financial innovations that helped to build the boom were constructed on sand.
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And the market reaction looks a little screwy.
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Market panics aren't the time to do the same. Look at them as a sale at Saks -- rare, and a great opportunity.
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These top-rated stocks were marked down by top investors. Are they right to have a sour puss on?
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Fred Wilson thinks so. And I agree. The reason the tech sector runs in cycles of euphoric booms and deep busts is that there is little support for long-term investment in tech. The new concepts that will fuel the next boom cycle are already here, but there isn't enough money flowing into developing them. The ideas that are getting investment are more and more derivative of the original idea that fueled the boom cycle that is now (likely) coming to an end. If you look back at the last two busts, there was one in the early 90s when the software boom had run out of juice, and then in the early 00s when the web boom had run its course. In both cases, the seeds of the next boom were already planted, but the investors weren't pushing money in their direction. The savior after the early 90s bust was the web, and the second was what they call Web 2.0, which is a really lame way to describe the networked creative environment, what I called the Two-Way Web. I'm going to be in NY in October, and I hope to meet with Fred and other investors to talk about how we can soften the busts and enhance the booms.
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What current interest rates mean for the average Fool.
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Standard &amp; Poor's downgraded its rating on Fidelity Investments parent FMR Corp. , citing lackluster performance at the Boston company's well-known mutual funds division. Standard &amp; Poor's analyst Charles D. Rauch said FMR faces "stagnant earnings and weak profitability" compared with peer investment companies, explaning why the rating on Fidelity's long-term notes was reduced to "AA-minus" from "AA." ...
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Another quarter, another great report card. So why are investors grumpy?
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NEW YORK -- With the stock market having jitters after a strong run-up in the past year, some investors might want something more low-key.
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Bargain hunters may want to keep an eye on this stock.
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The Curious Capitalist: The Fed cuts rates by a half-point, and the stock market cheers  -  not that that means anything
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A strategy to cope with the market's malaise.
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Are these low-priced stocks cheap for a reason, or overlooked opportunities?
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The valuation is dirt cheap, but can it perform?
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The powerful undercurrent of skepticism in the market right now is a good omen for stocks.
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The Motley Fool - It's not always easy make sense of the information that flows at us via the financial media. Consider, for example, this nugget that I ran across at investmentadvisor.com: "Standard &amp; Poor's latest mutual fund persistence scorecard, released in mid-August, found that through June 30, very few funds were able to consistently repeat top half or top quartile performance."
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Who knows if these stocks have hit bottom?