Posted AT 10:14 PM EST on 20/11/08
Cheap stocks that nobody wants
DAVID PARKINSON AND JOHN HEINZL
From Friday's Globe and Mail
TORONTO As another frantic selloff sent stocks to new depths yesterday, one question burned the minds, phone lines and trading desks of investors big and small: Where does it end?
The frustrating answer, even with stock valuations cheaper than we've seen in decades, is that no one has a clue.
“We are in rarefied air here,” said Myles Zyblock, chief equity strategist at RBC Dominion Securities in Toronto.
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