81.   Such strong profitability has made the stocks of fund management companies among the best performers in this raging bull market.

82.   Swiss indexes were the best performers in Europe.

83.   Technology stocks, however, were among the best performers.

84.   That gives them an incentive to bring in more money, which usually follows the best performers anyway.

85.   That said, among the best performers today were beverage and tobacco stocks, issues that do well when the economy slows.

86.   The best performers often are the riskiest investments, and your holdings must carry the appropriate amount of risk for your own situation.

87.   The best performers over the last six months have been the mutual funds that invest in the very smallest publicly traded companies, according to Lipper.

88.   The best performers were generally communications funds, which benefited from merger mania and from a hope that local phone companies would soon get into the long-distance business.

89.   The best performers, Italy and Spain, may have run their course, however, as investors once again focus on their underlying economic problems.