JEDDAH, 13 October 2006 — A man watched his borrowed-and-invested money evaporate in a matter of minutes as the stock price of a company took a nosedive. He was so despondent at the fact that he had borrowed eggs and then placed them all in one basket (first rule of stock investment: portfolio diversification) that he stripped naked in front of the bank, the Al-Madinah newspaper reported yesterday. As he was being carted away for public indecency by the cops, he was yelling about how his pride had been ruined and how his friends from whom he borrowed the money would view him with contempt. Now they will think he his nuts, too.
