11.   If investment really is going global, there might be a market niche in being a secondary market for most major foreign stocks.

12.   If the value of the investment went up, Enron would pay Talon, and if the investment went down, Talon would pay Enron.

13.   In the Mideast, Western investment goes almost entirely into despotisms that have no intention of permitting political, religious or business freedom.

14.   Is this a safe answer for me as far as my investments go?

15.   It is important to build school and hospitals and let the private investment go to the highways.

16.   Most investment will go to increase line capacity.

17.   Now that these investments have gone awry, many local officials say they were pushed into unsuitable choices by aggressive brokers.

18.   One way to reduce risk is to diversify your portfolio by mixing asset classes so that when some investments go down, others will be up, said Raker.

19.   Significant doubts were raised last week about whether that investment will go through, however.

20.   Telecommunications deregulation, he believes, will mean that new investment will increasingly go into the existing high-tech clusters.