Wall Street Sayings (continued)

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   I checked the Wall Street Sayings/Proverbs/Maxims that I had posted on ADS-L in December 1998, but the archive omits "sender."
   Here's some more, from the Dow Jones database of the past two years.

6-17-1998, NIGHTLY BUSINESS REPORT--There's an old Wall Street saying that cash is trash.

7-21-1999, INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY, pg. B1--An old Wall Street saying holds that "money follows earnings," which means investors will buy the stock of companies with good earnings and ignore companies with poor earnings.

8-2-1998, FORBES MAGAZINE, pg. 265--What's been going on with Amazon stock is best explained by an old Wall Street maxim: "A stock and a company are not always the same thing."

8-6-1998, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, pg. 1--There is an old Wall Street saying that the stock market has anticipated eight of the last three recessions.

8-12-1998, WALL STREET JOURNAL EUROPE, pg. UK7B--Mr. Manley recalls an old Wall Street saying: "If you are going to panic, panic early."

9-6-1998, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES, pg. 40--There's an old Wall Street saying: "Sell down to the sleeping point."

9-21-1998, BUSINESS WEEK, pg. 114--Grant, the newsletter editor, likes to quote a play-it-safe Wall Street maxim: "Never meet a margin call."

10-12-1998, MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL, pg. 3--"There's the old Wall Street saying that the market has correctly predicted nine of the last four recessions," Eastman said.

10-12-1998, RICHMOND TIMES-DISPATCH--Guy CHance, director of marketing strategy at Scott & Stringfellow Inc., recalled an old Wall Street maxim during a recent selling spree: "This is when money returns to its rightful owners."

10-19-1998, CAPITAL DISTRICT BUSINESS REVIEW (ALbany), pg. 38--Thus, the old Wall Street saying, "The first loss is the best."

11-22-1998, ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER, pg. K11--Investors might be looking at the "Rally to Remember," is an old Wall Street maxim is correct.

2-5-1999, CNNfn: STRRET SWEEP--So the technology stocks finally reached the old Wall Street maxim that nothing has a straight line up or down.

4-11-1999, SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, pg. 3--It proves an old Wall Street saying--when you rob a whorehouse, take the piano player, too, because no one is entirely innocent.

10-4-1999, SEATTLE POST_INTELLIGENCER, pg. C3--As the Wall Street proverb says: "You can't eat relative performance."

11-29-1999, TIMES OF LONDON, pg. 18--There is an old Wall Street saying about defensive mergers: "What do you get when you merge two small dogs?  A big dog."

3-29-2000, YOMIURI SHIMBUN/DAILY YOMIURI--There is a Wall Street maxim that says a bullish market is born amid pessimism, grows up under skepticism, matures with optimism and dies with euphoria.