Any future rise in the gold price will probably prompt them to sell, pushing it back down again.
If demand is strong, an additional 40 million shares could sell, pushing proceeds to as much as $19 billion.
Weak corporate results could give investors more reasons to sell, pushing both the Dow and the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index back from recent nominal closing highs.
But today, in part to lure a generation for whom E-mail is mail, and facing competition with everything from faxes to the Internet, the Postal Service is looking to produce stamps that sell, pushing the tasteful limits of stamp design.
A spurt of selling pushed down prices of Treasury securities yesterday, as dealers made final bookkeeping preparations for the end of 1990.
But yesterday, investors helped ignite the Dow, which soared as much as 230 points before a late wave of selling pushed the index lower.
Is this simply a long awaited correction that allowed some brave souls a great buying opportunity because overnight panic selling pushed the markets further than it should have gone?
They can defend against a culture that sells push-up bikinis for 7-year-olds and otherwise sexualizes young girls.
Victoria's Secret, the largest American retailer of lingerie, might sell push-up bras, but in Japan, the market leader Wacoal sells a bra that downsizes busts.
Some, like Concepcion Hernandez and Azucena Rodriguez, come to shop at the lines of stores selling push-up bras, $10 jeans and dresses for celebrations.
