The recent market correction leaves some stock gems among both well-known and obscure Northwest companies for 1998. Join the crowd.
Stocks charge forward one day only to dive on bad news the next.
Whether we like it or not, this very well may be the trend for 1998. The atmosphere of stock market invincibility faded with October's thunder from China and everyone is on edge. Only a few short months ago, the average investor had never even heard of the Baht, Rupiah and Ringgit and probably thought the Hang Seng Index was in the back of a Chinese cookbook. We were ecstatic, if a bit nervous, with the stock market's irrational exuberance. Thirty-percent appreciations in mutual funds were becoming routine.