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To: Otimer who wrote (14975)	3/18/1998 8:57:00 PM
From: Tony van Werkhooven	Respond to of 18056

Its moving up because it keeps moving up <g> Tony

To: Otimer who wrote (14975)	3/18/1998 9:03:00 PM
From: Bonnie Bear	Respond to of 18056

Pretty bizarre, isn't it? I wish I knew. I thought last year felt like 1987, I don't have words for this one. And a lot of it is garbage stocks, too. There's a wall of money coming in from somewhere, and the feds don't want to do anything about it. I guess Tony has the right answer. What do I do, otimer, do I buy or do I just sit there and watch it go up another 150% without me? I'm afraid at this rate we're going to see another 30% year or 8% interest rates before the year end.

To: Otimer who wrote (14975)	3/18/1998 11:01:00 PM
From: posthumousone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18056

Can someone please explain why a bond fund should be considered. If I invest $1000 NOW, sure I will earn intrest but if interest rates go up my share price goes down, cancelling any gains I get from the higher yield. It seems you are just betting on interest rates to go down? Why would I risk putting money in a short term bond fund that is yielding 5.7% when interest rates can rise and wipe out my gains when I can put it in money market earning 5.2% risk free? Or am I to just do the ol dollar cost averaging and hope for the best.