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Those would include cable TV, where most of the wire has already been laid; Viacom and Media One Group just unveiled big buybacks. Airlines are in a good spot because even though traffic slows as the economy weakens, industry leaders like AMR and Delta can stop buying planes and weed out old gas guzzlers. Dividend-paying electric utilities tend to have appeal in a weak economy anyway, but with deregulation, some (Consolidated Edison, New England Electric) have shed capital-intensive parts of the business--generating power--to focus on transmission. In trying times, companies able to conserve cash should hold...
...dicey game of timing it may seem. For example, you can guard against missing a quick recovery by buying another depressed stock in the same industry. Sell Halliburton, down 41%, to lock in the tax benefits; then buy rival Schlumberger, down about 30%. Likewise, swap Philip Morris for RJR, AMR for Northwest, Caterpillar for Deere...
Saudi Arabian Prince Amr Bin Mohamed Al Faisal Al Saud described the investment process: "We go through a primary specification before we enter anything where-by we ask the question, 'Is this permissible or not?' If it is permissible, then we go through the assessment that any bank would...
...with an average pay package of $120,000 a year and a stratospheric wage of $100 to $166 an hour could possibly demand more, the pilots' wages have in fact been frozen for nearly four years. They also believe the company should be in a more generous mode, given AMR's $852 million in profits...
More than money, however, the pilots are upset at what they maintain is AMR's continuing attempt to shift jobs to its lower-cost commuter airlines. At issue is AMR's stated intention to acquire new 50-seat jets to replace existing turboprops on commuter routes flown by its American Eagle subsidiary. Eagle pilots earn one-third the salary of their American counterparts...