How does it make sense to say that you're protecting capital of $10,000 by giving $500 to a salesman who in five years promises you $9,500? You don't get your money back; you get what is invested back.

Stable-value funds can be a good, safe place to park cash where you will get something better than a money market and less than an intermediate bond fund.

In the highly tradable sectors you have seen a lot of convergence in how stocks perform by sector. The classic example is Nokia, Ericsson and Motorola. They all suffer and boom together.

It was a game we needed to win. We're not giving up. That's all you can ask for.

We have to stop giving the other team nine extra outs per game. We need to make the routine plays to be successful.

[Besides giving viewers a broader look into the moving parts of its shows, the trailers help MTV position its launches as notable events.] We noticed that there's so much competition now, it's as if TV launches are not unlike movie launches, ... As with movie premieres, there's a tremendous amount of money and energy being dedicated to TV debuts.