The investors hope to make huge profits when the companies return to financial health.

Investors clearly hope the stock market does not follow suit.

They said investors were hoping to obtain a higher rate.

Some investors are hoping that this will be a time of transition in how the company is run as well.

And the answer may not be what Merck or its investors hope to hear.

Investors hope to make money on the stocks of cleanup companies.

But the strong price controls that some investors had hoped to see were not included in the plan.

Small investors cannot hope to compete in the fundamentals game.

Perhaps as a result, investors were hoping that the financial benefits of the system would begin to be felt sooner rather than later.

Surely these stocks are so far down, investors hope, that they could not decline further.