Investment advice

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Windsorphil

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888 posts

268 months

Wednesday 24th July 2002
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Definitely worth considering for us all....



If you had bought £1000 worth of Nortel stock one year ago, it would now be worth £49.

With Enron, you would have £16.50 of the original £1,000.

With WorldCom, you would have less than £5 left.

If you had bought £1,000 worth of Stella Artois one year ago, drank all the beer, then turned in the bottles for a 5p deposit, you would now have £107.

Based on the above, current investment advice is to drink heavily and recycle.

big rumbly

973 posts

290 months

Wednesday 24th July 2002
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I work for NORTEL

Fatboy

8,069 posts

278 months

Wednesday 24th July 2002
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You wern't the guy who e-mailed this to working lunch were you? Cos they did one of their cartoon investment bits on it - well funny

apache

39,731 posts

290 months

Wednesday 24th July 2002
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I used to work for Nortel

Podie

46,643 posts

281 months

Wednesday 24th July 2002
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I got this about 3 weeks ago...


Excellent investment advice from one of my American colleagues:

If you had bought $1000.00 worth of Nortel stock one year ago, it would now be worth $49.00.

With Enron, you would have $16.50 of the original $1,000.00.

With Worldcom, you would have less than $5.00 left.

If you had bought $1,000.00 worth of Budweiser (the beer, not the stock) one year ago, drank all the beer, then turned in the cans for the 10 cent deposit, you would have $214.00.

Based on the above, my current investment advice is to drink heavily and recycle.

big rumbly

973 posts

290 months

Monday 29th July 2002
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"You wern't the guy who e-mailed this to working lunch were you? Cos they did one of their cartoon investment bits on it - well funny "

Not guilty, and it ain't funny