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The Young & The Restless

andrew simon wishes he had been one of those lucky investors who bought Google at $100 back when the company first offered shares to the public in August 2004. The 23-year-old teller at Chase Bank in San Francisco watched with envy as the search engine’s share price rose to a peak of $715 by December 2007. Now, Simon is getting his chance to buy one of his favorite stocks on sale. Last October, after the Dow Jones dipped and the S&P sagged, he purchased a small stake in Google (GOOG) at $356 per share—almost half of what it traded for a year earlier. At the same time, Simon loaded up on Intel (INTC), buying 30 shares at $14. When the price dropped to $13 in December, he bought 70 more shares. “It was like shopping on Black Friday, but the prices were even better,” he says.

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