Word: alcoa
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...selling his Alcoa stock...
...Neill had tried to keep the watchdogs at bay by promising to recuse himself - as per the letter of the law - from all Treasury matters pertaining to the aluminum manufacturer. But with Alcoa operating in 30 countries, with annual sales of $23 billion - and Bush, who's already under plenty of fire for his administration's coziness to Big Business, involving O'Neill in almost "every issue that the government is involved in" - it was time for O'Neill to finally clear his desk...
Kreme's rise is evidence that not every sector is taking a beating. Companies like Alcoa and RJR Tobacco, which make or sell basic stuff, such as oil, aluminum, electricity--and, yes, cigarettes--are whipping the tech sector. Oh, did we mention that they earn a profit? How old-fashioned...
...slightly safer topic: treasury secretary. Bob Rubin and Larry Summers, both Greenspan buddies, are tough acts to follow, and one hopes Bush ran his Treasury shortlist (currently headed by ALCOA chief Paul O'Neill) by the Fed chairman, because the relationship between the Bush administration and the Fed will be Topic A for Wall Street's Beltway-watchers. The bad news: The new treasury secretary's first job will be selling that very same...
...then he was, a little. "I'm not going to make a huge case that this is the investment we need to make sure we don't go into a recession," the Nixon, Ford and ALCOA veteran told the Senate Finance Committee. O'Neill was speaking, of course, of the across-the-board tax cut his new boss has been describing all winter as, well, the investment we need to make sure we don't go into a recession...