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To: russwinter who wrote (50019)	1/17/2006 4:16:49 PM
From: anachronist	Respond to of 110194

Yet complacency in the marketplace reigns supreme: money.cnn.com Investors more willing to gamble? Merrill Lynch poll determines more people are ready to take risk, but mixed over global outlook. LONDON (Reuters) - Risk appetite among global investors grew this month, although they remain sharply divided over whether growth in the world's economy is set to improve or decline, a Merrill Lynch poll showed Tuesday. The investment bank's January survey of fund managers showed 21 percent taking more risk than they usually would in their portfolios, up from 17 percent and 15 percent in December and November, respectively. Investors also cut cash from their portfolios to an average level of 3.5 percent from 4.3 percent two months earlier. Although this would imply a robust view of the future, investors remained divided over the progress of the global economy, with slightly more respondents expecting growth to slow than increase. Some 37 percent said global growth would slip during the next 12 months, while 35 percent expected stronger growth. The remainder expected it to stay the same. "The level of risk appetite this month is among the highest that we have seen, and cash levels are at the lowest levels the survey has ever recorded," Merrill said. "(But) this surge in investor optimism has taken place with little conviction the global economy is going to surprise positively over the coming year," it said.

To: russwinter who wrote (50019)	1/17/2006 4:22:50 PM
From: orkrious	Respond to of 110194

we are at an inflection point. INTC has problems besides a weakening economy, but it's being taken out and shot AH, down 7%. Too bad I have some 22.50 poots I bought a year ago that will become dead soldiers in a few days.