<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><entry xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91921071230884272.post-1861979498338473328</id><published>2009-01-01T18:48:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-01T19:04:51.232-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='US stock market'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Wall Street'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='New York Stock Exchange'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Wall Street investors'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='US investors'/><title type='text'>Investors still hoping for  positive stocks  in 2009</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YqYaSbT8xWI/SV2EBlBn0YI/AAAAAAAACvI/YGDVVYiJ-lI/s1600-h/us+stocks.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 236px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YqYaSbT8xWI/SV2EBlBn0YI/AAAAAAAACvI/YGDVVYiJ-lI/s320/us+stocks.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286526700256481666" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The year  2008 had been a worst year  for some investors as it witnessed a downfall on its &lt;a href="http://http//www.guardian.co.uk/business/feedarticle/8175000"&gt;stocks&lt;/a&gt;. However, some of these&lt;a href="http://http//washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jan/01/wall-street-rout-reverberates-as-investors-regroup/"&gt; investors&lt;/a&gt; are still expecting positive gains as the year 2009 comes in.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Amid the low expectations, Obama has said signing a major economic stimulus package will be his priority when he takes over the presidency on Jan. 20. The package aims to generate 3 million new jobs and could cost $775 billion or more.&lt;p class="textBodyBlack"&gt;&lt;span id="byLine"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Obama has touted infrastructure building as a target area for government spending, prompting some analysts to point to related shares, such as Caterpillar , as being possible leaders in 2009.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="textBodyBlack"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/91921071230884272-1861979498338473328?l=www.marketsnmoney.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.marketsnmoney.com/feeds/1861979498338473328/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=91921071230884272&amp;postID=1861979498338473328' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/91921071230884272/posts/default/1861979498338473328'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/91921071230884272/posts/default/1861979498338473328'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.marketsnmoney.com/2009/01/investors-still-hoping-for-positive.html' title='Investors still hoping for  positive stocks  in 2009'/><author><name>Trader</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13309761269649139032</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06363951870851608878'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YqYaSbT8xWI/SV2EBlBn0YI/AAAAAAAACvI/YGDVVYiJ-lI/s72-c/us+stocks.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry>