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- From: tucker@shiva.edsg.hac.com (George Tucker)
- Newsgroups: misc.invest
- Subject: Re: Conservative investment
- Message-ID: <24861@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 02:36:34 GMT
- References: <1993Jan17.051314.18406@cc.gatech.edu> <C1Dz7w.FF0@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
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- Reply-To: tucker@shiva.UUCP (George Tucker)
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- In article <C1Dz7w.FF0@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jhsu@ih-nxt05.cso.uiuc.edu (Jason Hsu) writes:
- >There aren't many good choices outside cash equivalents. Stocks are at
- >some of the highest price/book ratios ever, and the prospect of rising
- >interest rates (which I consider certain) foretell a crash in stocks and
- >bonds. Your two best choices: cash equivalents and U.S. EE Savings Bonds
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- WSJ last week cited a study showing that if you switched between long and
- short-term investments based on the consensus economists' predictions of
- interest rates at six-month intervals, your average annual return would
- have been (numbers may be off a bit):
- >13% betting they were wrong.
- < 8% betting they were right.
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- What is the consensus opinion today?
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- George Tucker tucker@shiva.hac.com
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