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INVESTMENT OUTLOOK 2002
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Strategies for Stocks & Bonds

The Investment Spectrum

The Investment Scoreboard

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The Barker Portfolio

Inside Wall Street

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DECEMBER 31, 2001

WHERE TO INVEST -- STRATEGIES FOR STOCKS & BONDS/Online Extra
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Interactive Poll: Your Take on 2002
What's your outlook for the markets and the economy? Where will you put your money? Let us know

 
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What's your outlook for investing in 2001? BusinessWeek commissioned Harris Interactive Inc. to survey a representative cross-section of the American population about where they have their money now and how they see things unfolding in the year ahead. Of the 1,006 adults who participated, 565 were stock investors.

Here's an online version of that poll. Go ahead and answer the questions yourself to see how your own responses compare to those of the BusinessWeek/Harris Poll. Please remember that this online survey isn't a scientific poll. It's simply a survey of those who choose to participate. We appreciate your doing so, and we'll report the results in a few weeks.

If you had to choose the one investment that you think would be the best to make right now, which would it be?

Real estate
Mutual funds
Bank or savings & loan deposits
Common stock
Money market funds
Gold or other precious metals
Government bonds
Corporate bonds
I don't save or invest at all
Not sure

Thinking about your household's total assets including real estate, stocks including stock mutual funds, bonds including bond mutual funds, savings instruments and cash, does your household own any of the following?

Real estate
Stocks including stock mutual funds
Bonds including bond mutual funds
Savings instruments and cash
Some other asset

Over the next year, do you think stocks will go up, stay about the same, or go down?

Go up
Stay about the same
Go down
Not sure

Over the next 12 months, how would you rate the chance of another big crash in the stock market?

Very likely
Somewhat likely
Not very likely
Not likely at all
Not sure

How do you think terrorism and the war against it will affect the stock market over the next 12 months?

Very positively
Somewhat positively
Somewhat negatively
Very negatively
No effect at all
Not sure

Do you believe that next year, the stock market will be less volatile, about as volatile as this year, or more volatile?

Less volatile
About as volatile as this year
More volatile
Not sure

Have you bought common stock or shares in a stock mutual fund within the past year?

Have bought
Have not bought
Not sure

Over the next six months, do you think you will probably invest a lot more in stocks or stock mutual funds, invest somewhat more in stocks or stock mutual funds, reduce your investment in stocks or stock mutual funds somewhat or reduce your investments a lot?

Invest a lot more
Invest somewhat more
Reduce somewhat
Reduce a lot
Stay the same
I don't save or invest at all
Not sure

In the long run, what sort of total returns (capital gains plus dividends) do you expect the stock market to produce for you?

Below 5% a year
5% to below 10% a year
10% to below 12% a year
12% to below 15% a year
15% or higher a year
Not sure

How confident are you that the stocks or mutual funds you pick will beat the market averages?

Very confident
Somewhat confident
Not very confident
Not at all confident
Not sure

Overall, how would you describe the stock market's valuation?

Very overpriced
Somewhat overpriced
Fairly valued
Somewhat cheap
Very cheap
Not sure

Overall, how would you describe the valuation of international stocks?

Very overpriced
Somewhat overpriced
Fairly valued
Somewhat cheap
Very cheap
Not sure

Overall, how would you describe the valuation of technology stocks?

Very overpriced
Somewhat overpriced
Fairly valued
Somewhat cheap
Very cheap
Not sure



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