That, says Mr. Jones, means returns for people buying now will be depressed relative to what the long-run potential could be.

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Yet the price of low-volatility stocks tend to be depressed compared with their high-volatility brethren, notes Haugen.

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The ebullient musician, who plays a range of instruments including bass and violin, says he did not have much to be depressed about - but was unable to push dark thoughts away.

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Bernstein, sees Coke's main risk as the huge spending on marketing that will be needed to jump-start its depressed core brands and to launch the new ones.

ECONOMIST: Soft drinks

Mr. LIGGETT: Well, funny enough, the organization - you might expect everybody to be rather depressed and say, well, this is a major hit on the sport.

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What an irony it will be if Apple, cranking out ever-less profitable commodity iMacs, its stock depressed, cannot afford to follow.

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The U.S. economy appears to be on track for a mild recovery, after years of sub-par growth, while the labor market remains depressed.

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