The yield on the three-month Treasury-bill, considered one of the safest investments, held at 0.01%, showing just how skittish investors still are.
This combination, along with the media focus on the 1987 crash, was enough to cause many skittish investors to run for the exits.
Skilling attorney Daniel Petrocelli attempted to place the blame for Enron's bankruptcy on many heads: He blamed the tech and dot-com meltdown and skittish investors.
Despite liberal help from the IMF, the government could not meet the punishing yields exacted by skittish investors or balance its books in the midst of a protracted recession.
Like Skilling, Lay has heaped the blame for Enron's spectacular failure on skittish investors, a whipsaw market and "the deceit of Andy Fastow"--the former finance chief who pleaded guilty to in January 2004 to wire and securities fraud, two of the 98 counts he'd faced, and agreed to a decade in the slammer.
With skittish income investors pushing the staid utility sector to an abnormally high valuation, the conventional way to play defense in stocks is looking a bit pricey these days.
Prospects for a downgrade of U.S. debt could leave some investors skittish about holding the dollar.
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If Merck can improve those low expectations at all, it could be enough to make Vertex investors skittish.
Even Mr Mbeki's government, relatively friendly toward foreign investors, is now considering weakening mining firms' mineral rights a move that, quite rightly, makes all foreign investors skittish.
The uncertainty of a stock sale in this environment, where the markets are volatile and investors are skittish about taking on risk, is one reason why expectations were high of a bank-led buyout.
Marathon shares had dropped 2% by midday on the news, with investors presumably skittish on how Cazalot intended to pay for the deal and surprised at the timing, so close to the spinoff.
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Analysts say the rise in yields, along with other signs of turbulence, including a weak bond auction and sudden spikes or drops in prices, show investors are skittish about the effect of the BOJ's purchases.
Aanalysts say the rise in yields, along with other signs of turbulence, including a weak bond auction and sudden spikes or drops in prices, show investors are skittish about the effect of the BOJ's purchases.
Investors were skittish Monday, as news that emergency loans to Greece had been delayed while European finance ministers insisted that Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou follow through with budget cuts that are overwhelmingly unpopular in the indebted nation.
When Wachovia, for instance, announced its profit decline earlier this month, it said the deal flow has slowed and investors are skittish in the face of liquidity challenges - which means, until it becomes clearer how deep these losses have been, there's going to be sort of a cloud hanging over Wall Street, and also over the economy as a whole because this affects the housing market.
What the data appear to substantiate is that investors are very skittish about the outlook for stocks.
New investment will also be difficult to come by, as investors grow more skittish because of these regulatory shifts.
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In 1972, despite the Dow's return to record territory, mutual-fund investors were so skittish that they kept taking money out of stock funds.
In other words, investors are definitely getting skittish and is yet more confirmation of an overall slowdown.
Although U.S. investors have become somewhat skittish about green technology, Asian conglomerates are at the start of what could become an extended shopping spree.
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Mr. Shroff said the verdict provides much-needed clarity for foreign investors who had become skittish about doing major deals in India with so much tax uncertainty.
It is too early to tell if this is simply a brief pause or if profit taking activities will start to take a toll on the recent rise of the pound as investors and traders still remain skittish and prefer to lock in profits when they are available.
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