Burned by Investing in Troubled Times (NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance)
Story date: 2008-01-10 07:40:30
Added on: 2008-01-10 20:00:23
Scores of investors have sought to profit by buying into troubled financial firms at low prices: so far their investments have failed to make much of a profit.
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