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  • Association of Investor Awareness - Week of 11/20/2008

    In This Issue:

    Stocks Search For A Bottom
    High Energy Prices Will Return
    Commodities Will Also Rebound
    Infrastructure Spending Is Likely To Soar
    The Bottom Line This Week

    Stocks stumbled badly again last week as deteriorating economic news caused another round of investors to throw in the towel. By Friday afternoon, the Dow and the Nasdaq were down an additional 5.0% and 7.9%. The declines left the two indices down 35.9% and 42.8% for the year. Ouch!

    This week got off to an equally bad start. Although we had a 151 point gain on Tuesday, it was overshadowed by a 651 point slide on Monday and Wednesday.

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  • Association of Investor Awareness - Week of 10/23/2008

    In This Issue:

    It's Too Early For A Sustained Rebound
    But, There Are Finally Some Signs Of Relief
    What Everybody Knows Is Often Wrong
    Another Contrary Economic Outlook
    Cheaper Energy: The World's Biggest "Tax" Cut
    This High Yield Investment Looks Good
    The Bottom Line This Week

    Mother Market took pity on investors last week when she tossed a few points our way. Actually, it was more than just a few. The total for Monday and Thursday came to a whopping 1338. Since she took back "only" 937 points, the Dow and the Nasdaq ended the period up a welcome 4.8% and 3.8% respectively.

    When the closing bell finally rang on Friday and the week's gains were locked safely away, some of us let out a happy little "hurray." However, our killjoy number cruncher pointed out that with so many wild swings happening every week it was inevitable that the market would occasionally end on a high point. In other words, the bounce could have just been a random event. Rats!

    On Monday of this week the market jumped another 413 points, but it gave back 746 points on the following two days. Oh well, the mini-rally was fun while it lasted.

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