1. Putting deities and demigods aside, investors must also worry about interest-rate risk. 2. Among the declining stocks was Wal-Mart Stores, which fell along with other retailers as investors worried about sales being weaker than expected during the holiday season. 3. As Asian markets fall, investors worry about defaults on loans made by Japanese banks to overseas companies. 4. As a result, investors worry that Bristol has too few potential blockbuster drugs coming to market in the next year or so. 5. As such, some investors worried that the Federal Reserve might act less quickly or forcefully than they had come to believe. 6. As with stocks, the idea the Labourites would raise rates more than expected was what had bond investors worried. 7. Asian investors worry that steep declines in the U.S. market could cut the flow of investment into equity markets from Manila to Tokyo. 8. At various points, investors have worried about the prospect of high interest rates, falling profits, and troubles in Asia. 9. Bank investors worry that more bankruptcies will burden banks with still more bad loans. 10. Bank shares fell as investors worried other banks will have to follow. |