INVESTOR SPOTLIGHT.Name: Debra Epner Residence: Northridge Occupation: Travel agent Age: 45 How she got started: Her first plunge The term Plunge has multiple meanings:
intr.v. hov·ered, hov·er·ing, hov·ers 1. To remain floating, suspended, or fluttering in the air: gulls hovering over the waves. 2. around $5. In 1995, she bought Lucent Technologies, an AT&T spin-off The situation that arises when a parent corporation organizes a subsidiary corporation, to which it transfers a portion of its assets in exchange for all of the subsidiary's capital stock, which is subsequently transferred to the parent corporation's shareholders. , for $46 a share. Today, she and her husband have nine stocks and several mutual funds. Best stock pick: Lucent. She bought it at $46 a share in 1995 and it closed at 79 13/16 on Friday. Worst stock pick: Ascend. She bought it at $30 a month ago based on a rumor RUMOR. A general public report of certain things, without any certainty as to their truth. 2. In general, rumor cannot be received in evidence, but when the question is whether such rumor existed, and not its truth or falsehood, then evidence of it may be given. that Lucent would take it over. It closed at 25 -7/8 on Friday. Investment philosophy: ``Don't put money in the stock market that you need right away. Don't use money that if you lose it you won't be able to eat or pay your bills. Don't panic
Don't panic may refer to:
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