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 New Stock Market Terms:
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( d! D( u+ s+ T' l: yCEO -- Chief Embezzlement Officer. : D% o; D0 n9 e b1 v+ T% P
CFO -- Corporate Fraud Officer. 5 ^1 z* R. M6 h9 ?- q; a; B% [" i
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BULL MARKET -- A random market movement causing an investor to mistake himself for a financial genius.
! B e* A8 O" @8 h; }BEAR MARKET -- A 6 to 18 month period when the kids get no allowance, the wife gets no jewelry, and the husband gets no sex.
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; o' o# T" K: e7 e7 L* S- i5 rVALUE INVESTING -- The art of buying low and selling lower.
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P/E RATIO -- The percentage of investors wetting their pants as the market keeps crashing.
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BROKER -- What my broker has made me. % o7 _$ O0 d2 o7 p* T
- t8 b- Z5 r# i2 `STANDARD & POOR -- Your life in a nutshell.
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+ w N' ?$ u/ j0 j' vSTOCK ANALYST -- Idiot who just downgraded your stock.
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STOCK SPLIT -- When your ex-wife and her lawyer split your assets equally between themselves.
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FINANCIAL PLANNER -- A guy whose phone has been disconnected.
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$ s; J0 G( ]9 S8 C0 F3 wMARKET CORRECTION -- The day after you buy stocks. ( T7 S6 h4 n9 O+ S: K$ F
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CASH FLOW -- The movement your money makes as it disappears down the toilet.
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YAHOO -- What you yell after selling it to some poor sucker for $240 per share. , N- V4 `4 q) h/ n; a9 S
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WINDOWS 2000 -- What you jump out of when you're the sucker who bought Yahoo @ $240 per share.9 C5 f0 q6 F+ z) n2 ^
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INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR -- Past year investor who's now locked up in a nuthouse.
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6 \9 A! o, A; p) X: o+ u5 G$ PPROFIT -- an archaic word no longer in use.# |! E F! F( B- f1 ?' _
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If you had purchased $1,000 of Delta Air Lines stock one year ago, you would have $49 left.
+ D: h/ c2 I( z0 iWith Fannie Mae, you would have $2.50 left of the original $1,000.7 S3 N: w* i1 N0 P
With AIG, you would have less than $15 left.
8 |" z% d' G: WBut, if you had purchased $1,000 worth of beer one year ago, drunk all of the beer, then turned in the cans for the aluminum recycling REFUND, you would have $214 cash. 8 G% d4 Y5 S8 w7 i+ f; C
Based on the above, the best current investment advice is to drink heavily and recycle.3 W% G% |7 K% V5 o( o% J
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& e3 Y# [. ^: a% |* yWhat is the difference between a Wall Street Stockbroker and a pigeon? 0 N: z& R" G, z; j3 t2 `" O
! @9 Y+ v* K; v, E# n A pigeon can still make a deposit on a Mercedes.
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Politicians and diapers have one thing in common... ! S1 U* {* n: Q/ Y e6 e
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...they should both be changed regularly and for the same reason. |
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