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...trick is to separate the fallen angels from the real sinners. "If a stock is trading at $1 and it was trading at $50, it is telling you that unless a rabbit is pulled out of a hat, it is going bankrupt," says Jason Selch, analyst with Chicago-based Wanger Asset Management, which manages the Liberty Acorn Funds. Selch looks for orphans, stocks that have fallen so far out of favor that even brokers aren't paying attention to them. One orphan he owns is Navigant Consulting, which traded as high as $50 in 1999 and is now less than...
...sweeping constitutional reforms, paving the way for direct presidential elections in 2004. The fractious People's Consultative Assembly, a holdover from the three-decade rule of deposed President Suharto, also agreed to transform itself into a bicameral body similar to the United States Congress. "This is historical," enthuses political analyst and columnist Bara Hasibuan. "For the first time, we'll be using a presidential system where all branches are equal. There will now be a separation of power rather than a division of power...
...event of an attack, could Iran be persuaded to quietly share intelligence or turn a blind eye to the use of its airspace, as it did during the first Gulf War? "If it makes Iran a player, the answer would likely be yes," says one Tehran political analyst...
...Clearly if you have a couple of hit shows your ratings can improve," says Jeffrey Logsdon, analyst at Gerard Klauer Mattison. "But they have talked about how ABC was a priority the last couple of years and it's still not happening." For now, an Eisner toppling seems unlikely. Even the Disney family could be brought back into the Eisner camp quickly if the stock turns up. Disney family members reportedly borrowed against the stock when it was much higher and may face a margin call if it declines further. Fixing that issue would go a long way toward fixing...
...insisted that the analyst's job is, first and foremost, to figure out what a stock is worth right now. He believed in comparing a company's share price to its existing assets and past earnings. Only after determining a stock's value today would Graham entertain guesstimates of what it might earn tomorrow. Anchoring his analysis in reality gave Graham what he called "the margin of safety." As he wrote in his classic The Intelligent Investor, "Operations for profit should be based not on optimism but on arithmetic...