Wall Street's undertow: drugs and anxiety
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Wall Street's push for record profits is ruining careers, tearing apart families and keeping drug dealers busy, mental health experts say.
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Okay, if the mind is powerful, how is your mind making you feel today? It's worth thinking about -- with the stock market down this year, every day worse than the last, many of us are losing lots of money, I know I am, and it's not a good feeling.  I keep arguing with myself, even though I'm losing money at a huge rate, I'm still in good shape financially, I have a nice house, I can pay the bills. But it doesn't help. Inside I feel unsettled, poor, I'm having trouble concentrating. Does it help that I've been through this before? The crash of 1987 was much worse than this downturn, and then I had no cushion, nothing to fall back on, I wasn't even employed when it happened. I was a lot closer to being broke around the turn of the century, even though the market was doing very well. But it doesn't help. No matter how many times I've been through it, I've always known that it's cyclic, that the outlook will likely improve, but knowing isn't the same as feeling. The feeling is much stronger, it can't be counteracted with logic. I can't reason with the feeling, you might say it's un-reasonable. Then I heard that a friend of mine, much younger, with a lot less at stake in the market, is having trouble sleeping because of this feeling. I realize I'm not alone, probably millions of people have a heightened sense of insecurity right now. Does that make it better? Not really... Anyway, I thought, let's post something and find out how others feel about the economy and how much of an impact is it having on our state of mind.
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NEW YORK - As Wall Street sifts through more than 300 third-quarter earnings reports this week, technology and pharmaceutical stocks will be getting some of the closest scrutiny.    The focus on drug companies results from a recent spate of bad news about Merck & Co...
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Wall Street&#39;s holiday rally stumbled Monday, with stocks finishing mixed as investors worried over the strength of the pharmaceutical sector.
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Wall Street heads back to work this week in a somewhat calmer state of mind. Overall, investors are more optimistic now about the financial markets than they've been in several weeks.
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Investors care more about the drugmaker's future than its Q4 results.
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The recent bleak returns on Wall Street have prompted many investment advisers to prescribe the same bromide: switch to defensive stocks and cut back on bonds.
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And Wall Street's full o' surprises.
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New research shows that pessimists are on shaky ground when they argue that recent heavy selling by company insiders is a bearish sign for the stock market.
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A dizzying somersault on the markets left Wall Street traders and everyday investors biting their nails, and wondering  what lies ahead.
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Wall Street is nervous. Yet credit problems aside, it's not nearly as bad as it may seem.
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With Wall Street falling precipitously almost by the day, investors are asking what it will take to revive it. Market experts are increasingly coming to the same answer: Time.
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Wall Street&#39;s dog days of August have the potential for a serious bite this year. August is traditionally slow for investment bankers, fund managers and traders on Wall
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The company reports mediocre earnings as investors remain nervous about the drug sector.
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Seeking opportunity in a market clouded by fear.
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Wall Street tried to sort through some problematic readings on the economy and new concerns surfaced about the safety of owning financial stocks.
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Wall Street's summer-long session of Hold 'Em is driving the credit crunch. Time to end the game.