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He may long gold, the stock for security related firms(eg. companies producing bomb detection devices), and short the insurance companies.:p

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: March 23, 2004 Filed at 5:16 p.m. ET WASHINGTON (AP) -- Medicare will have to begin dipping into its trust fund this year to keep up with expenditures and will go broke by 2019 without changes in a program that is swelling because of rising health...

Thousands of Pakistani troops have been locked in battle with al Qaeda fighters and their tribal allies in Pakistan's wild South Warizistan tribal area since Tuesday. Dozens of fighters have been killed and about 100 suspected militants, many of them foreigners, captured, the army said...

NASDAQ is planning to bring QQQ to the European stock markets. Long live the CUBES.:p

Sat Mar 13, 2004 07:19 AM ET By Andrea Hopkins WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Renee Ray has never had a job that offered health care benefits, but the single mother of three dreams such peace of mind could be hers when she graduates from college in May and starts searching for a job. Analysts...

Last month, the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts said there were 1,660,245 personal bankruptcies last year. It was a record for any calendar year, but off slightly from the all-time 12-month high reached in the period ended in September...

Not likely.:p Utah faced the highest per-household bankruptcy rate -- one out of every 47 -- followed closely by Tennessee, Georgia and Nevada. I do not think there are more daytraders in these States than New York.:D

According to American Bankruptcy Institute, one in 73 US households has filed bankruptcy in 2003. :mad:

On March 10, 2000, NASDAQ closed at its all time high. Have we learned anything since then ? :p

Tue Mar 9, 2004 08:55 PM ET By David Zielenziger NEW YORK (Reuters) - The rush to outsource jobs in low-cost centers abroad has some similarities to the rush by businesses to get online in the late 90s, with the hype masking problems that could dog companies in the future, an outsourcing...

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/09/opinion/09KRUG.html?ex=1079846635&ei=1&en=f4d78ef600516a26

Sat Mar 6, 2004 08:26 AM ET By Jonathan Nicholson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The average spell of joblessness was more than five months in February, the highest in two decades, raising the prospect it may be a factor in driving workers from the U.S. labor force. The February jobs report...

Wow, are you psychic or something ? I definitely do not want to make you angry. :p WASHINGTON (CNN) -- U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft is in the intensive care unit of a Washington hospital after being admitted Thursday night for gallstone pancreatitis, the Justice Department said...

According to Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc., planned job cuts in U.S. fell to 77,250 in February 2004, compared to a figure of 117,500+ in January, 2004.

Major U.S. indices have little momentum recently. It is not easy to buy high and sell higher; sell low and buy lower. :mad:

Of course, they do. They get most of thier first calls from this message board. The normal returns of most traders at ET beat those at SAC by several miles. I bet they pay millions to Baron every year to keep this site up and running. :D...

By JANNY SCOTT Published by New York Time: February 28, 2004 It is well known that the unemployment rate in New York City rose sharply during the recent recession. It is also understood that the increase was worse for men than for women, and especially bad for black men. But a new study...

Agree. If one likes to start a successful business, he/she needs to know what he/she is doing, and have a game plan. Trading options is no exception. One of my friends has been investing in stocks for decades. He discovered options in 1990. When IBM began to crash in 1991, he started to...

And the disparity between the rich and the poor becomes stronger and stronger. :mad:

By SARITHA RAI Published by New York Times on February 22, 2004: ANGALORE, India, Feb. 21 — A social revolution is under way in India's numerous back offices and call centers. Many of the employees are barely in their 20's, and just a year or two ago they were living traditional lives...