51.   Small investors can choose from hundreds of mutual funds and U.S.-listed stocks in markets around the globe.

52.   Smith Barney announced its intentions to open a mutual fund supermarket, a place where investors can choose among a wide variety of mutual fund families.

53.   So far investors have chosen to ignore the Fed.

54.   Some investors chose to buy the shares of producers on the expectation of future profits rather than on the value of the metal itself, analysts said.

55.   Some investors may be choosing to cash in now, however, rather than risk that the shares will fall further when an agreement is announced.

56.   Spiteri said investors are choosing to buy bank stocks and some stocks that are expected to rise as economic growth accelerates.

57.   Studies have shown that the blend of assets an investor chooses will largely determine how much that portfolio will grow and how much risk it will assume.

58.   That is positive for bonds, whose prices rise when rates fall because investors choose to lock in to fixed-returns.

59.   The CFTC also maintains a reparations program, in which administrative law judges decide whether a customer deserves damages, but investors may choose to go to court instead.

60.   The decline may be bumpy as central banks never announce sales and investors may choose to plow money into stock and bond markets, the analysts said.