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Strategies & Market Trends : Investing during a Bear Market
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To: Joan Osland Graffius who wrote (118)11/13/1997 12:43:00 AM
From: Stingray  Read Replies (2) of 226
 
I didn't realize there was a low risk way of shorting stocks. I'm not comfortable with the concept of shorting stocks because you are entering an obligation to buy back something you don't particularly want to own and you could end up paying through the nose to buy back an overpriced stock you never wanted in the first place. There are people who can make money shorting stocks but I make no pretensions to being one of them.

Short term interest rates are pretty good right now but I think the long bond could come under pressure since so much of our debt is held outside of this country, particularly in the Pacific rim. It's not too hard to imagine a scenario where US bonds get sold as countries try to defend their currencys, which would, if the yield on the long bond were to get above 7% create a great buying opportunity, so for now cash is good but the long bond could get attractive if money starts to flow out of the US and back to the far east.
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