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Investing on thin ice

BY MICHELLE BALTAZAR | THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2010 12:35PM

A leading fixed income manager likens the market to a car careening into a frozen pond and fishtailing before steadying - except the car could still crash and is still on thin ice.

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