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Monday, December 1, 2008 12:00 AM

I bought stocks; my husband bought CDs. Now I can't bear to look

I can't get up the nerve to tell my husband just how much money we've lost.
By Cary Tennis

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  • Sunday, November 30, 2008 10:56 PM

    To LW

    A bit of oft-ignored advice on the stockmarket:

    Be a bear, hybernate.

    Unless the company you have shares on goes under you have not made a loss until you sell. Hold onto your shares and hope for luck, because chances are so long as the underlying and business is decently run, the shares will come back up again.

    —Taliesan Read Taliesan's other letters

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