Conference nyoss1::market_investing

    Pick up a copy at a newsstand some weekend.  _Barron's_ is sold many
    places, though not everywhere.  Then decide for yourself.
    
    One of the problems with subscribing is that the issue comes via mail,
    hence Monday or sometimes later.  I'd rather read it on Sunday while
    the news is still reasonably fresh.
    
      John

    I don't know how they do it but I get mine in my mailbox on Saturday
    mornings.
    (How they write,print,distribute it to PO, AND then the PO gets it to 
    me on Saturdays is amazing).
    I agree with previous entry re:timely reading. If you don't get it read
    over the weekend - it's old news. So if not delivered on Sat (due to
    storm,etc.) I buy it.

    My copy comes in the mail on Saturday as well.
    
    Conference noters should be aware that John H. lives up in the boonies
    in NH where 4-wheel drive is mandatory -- he's lucky the mail is
    delivered to his house at all.

>    Conference noters should be aware that John H. lives up in the boonies
>    in NH where 4-wheel drive is mandatory -- he's lucky the mail is
>    delivered to his house at all.
    
    Actually, mail *isn't* delivered to my house at all.  I have a P.O. Box,
    'cause there ain't no house delivery.
    
    'Course that's nothing compared to where I lived when I was a kid.
    Heck, back then, we lived so faaar away that sometimes the radio waves
    took a week to reach us.  We thought Dewey had been elected and were
    partying for _days_ before the (perceived) bad news arrived...
    
      John

      My Barons arrives in Bedford, NH, on Saturday -- most of the time.
      Like anything else that comes by U S Mail,  it  sometimes  doesn't
      make it till Monday, or Tuesday, or....

      About half of Barons is devoted to articles; about half to data --
      stock and fund prices, market and economic indicators, etc. Stocks
      covered  include  NYSE,  AMEX,  NASDAQ,  and  various regional and
      foreign exchanges. Mutual fund covered include virtually all open-
      and  closed-end  funds  available  in  the USA.  Bonds and Futures
      markets are also covered.  If you want to  update  your  portfolio
      value  weekly,  this is an excellent source.  I have a 1-year plus
      stack of Barons in my library.  When I identify a fund that  might
      to be of interest I use them to research the fund's performance.

      The  articles  include  information/opinion about general economic
      conditions,  relating  them  to  investment,  and  articles  about
      specific stocks, bonds and funds. There are regular, fund-oriented
      columns.

      Once  each quarter there is a mutual fund supplement.  It includes
      articles about  funds  and  fund  investing,  and  lipper-supplied
      relative performance data for funds.

      I  would  recommend  Barons,  but the final choise depends on what
      works for you.  As a previous reply suggested, pick up a  copy  at
      the  news  stand, or go look at recent copies in any good library.
      If you're fund-oriented you should look at one  of  the  quarterly
      fund supplements in particular.      

    Thanks for the info, I will pick one up this weekend and look it over.
    
    Frank

Caveat re Barron's:  Most stores get it first thing on Saturday
morning.  At least in my area (Marlboro/Hudson) it sells out
almost as soon as it hits the shelves.  I've gone "out to get
Barron's" at 1:00 in the afternoon only to find that *nobody*
has any left.

Barron's is *packed* full 'o numbers..for me, it wouldn't
matter if I got it on Monday as it still has tremndous
research value.

./chris

    Hi!
    
    Can anyone tell me that latest issue of Barrons that contained the
    Mutual Fund Ratings info??  I hear that this section is published
    quarterly and  am wondering when that latest one was published and
    when the next one is due.  I checked the Worcester, MA library 
    and did not see this in the Jan93, Feb93(they were missing one of
    these), or Mar93 issues??  
    
    thanks,
             Tim

    Last MFRI was Feb 8th.

    You won't believe this but.........
    
    The Feb 8th issue is the one that was mysteriously missing from the 
    Worcester Library!!!  This is really a shame - someone took it upon
    themselves to permanently borrow this issue I guess!  Does anyone
    know howe I might be able to obtain a copy of this - suppose I could
    check other libraries.  I should have known that the only issue that
    was not there was the one that I was looking for!
    
    Any help would be appreciated.
    
    Cheers,
            Tim
    

I think I have it...I'll check tonight.  Send me mail
if you're interested in borrowing it...

./chris

    Chris,
          Thanks for the offer but I did manage to find it at another
    library.  This is a great section and I'm glad I found it!  FYI - the
    next MF review issue in Barron's is due out on Apr26 issue - this was
    advertised in the Feb 8 issue.
    
    thanks again,
                   Tim

    I was thinking of Subscribing to Baron's and was wondering how much a
    year it costs and what 800 number can I call to get a subsription.
    This was the only note I found when I did a DIR/TIT=BARRONS.
    
    Thanks,
    
     Vern

    
    I believe that it's $119 for 52 weeks, or a savings of $11/year.  Not
    a lot, even less if you think you might be able to earn a few dollars
    on that $119 during the course of the year.
    
    It is a little bit more convenient to have it delivered, but the
    postman mangles it in my mailbox as often as not, and it doesn't arrive
    until mid-afternoon Saturday in my case...  even later according to
    some stories I've heard.
    
    I'm a loyal reader, but I probably won't re-subscribe.  If nothing
    else, I've lost my excuse to get out of the house on Saturday morning,
    and that's worth at least $11/year to me!
    
       /jim