"After that the market will realize it's dealing with a very high-risk stock."

Other scenarios involve recommendations to elderly couple living on a fixed income to buy high-risk stocks.

Essar Energy looks likes a classic example of a high-risk, low-visibility stock that most savers could happily live without.

Q. Why do you characterize Yahoo as a high-risk stock?

A lot of people are purchasing rather speculative, high-risk stocks with borrowed money and that's a source of concern for me.

A portfolio of junk bonds, hedge funds or high-risk stocks obviously poses a greater risk to the pension program than a portfolio of high-grade bonds.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said the investigation centered on "a small part of the stock market involving high-risk, highly speculative stocks."

The agency accused the company of lying and using fictional analysts' reports to sell a variety of high-risk stocks to investors by telephone.

And throughout the playoffs, Pippen's game has fluctuated like a high-risk stock.

You have to spread out among low-, medium- and high-risk stocks, bonds, currencies and commodities.