As a result, many investors perceive greater risk in almost every publicly traded stock.

The first investor would perceive no benefits from international diversification, the authors found, while the second would see many.

Whether this money arrives or dries up depends largely on how investors perceive a country's economy.

Most analysts say investors perceive tobacco as a fading business.

And here some investors perceive an important message.

The question is whether investors perceive that this market has more to run.

"Managers don't like to cut them," she said, for fear that investors perceive the cut as lack of confidence.

Such is the trouble many investors perceive with biotechnology stocks in general.

Otherwise, the investor would not perceive that there is any benefit of holding onto inventory and therefore sell his stocks.

These companies have shown reluctance to take part in the plan, saying their creditworthiness could be affected if investors perceive the chance of default.