71.   Lately, though, some investors have started shunning IPOs with many hot sales that had soared to several times their offering prices back to where they started.

72.   More and more investors will start being attracted to the high returns offered this year in many European, Latin American and Asian markets, predict some industry executives.

73.   Meanwhile, domestic investors start worrying about whether foreigners will continue to buy American bonds.

74.   Mutual fund investors have started to notice.

75.   Once investors start looking at prospects for growth and profits, shares of initial public offerings tend to stumble.

76.   Other analysts said that more and more investors were starting to recognize that the stock market was vastly overvalued.

77.   Other fund companies reported that investors started to warm up to international stock funds in December.

78.   Overseas investors may be starting to look at their own markets again as opposed to investing in the U.S., they said.

79.   Putnam said investors are starting to buy muni bond funds in increasing numbers.

80.   Prices are low enough that investors started to see value in banks and brokerages, particularly the better-run ones, traders and investors said.