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...Purisima's remarks followed a week of calls for Arroyo's resignation from such high-profile organizations as the Catholic De La Salle University, the University of the Philippines College of Law, and the leaders of the country's 13 million Protestants. On Friday, the blue-chip Makati Business Club joined the chorus, as well as former President Corazon Aquino, the heroine of the 1986 People Power revolution, who said the present crisis was "crippling the government and endangering the nation...
...relentless rally was not limited to the blue-chip stocks of the Dow. The Investor's Daily index of more than 5,200 stocks traded on the New York and American exchanges and over the counter had risen almost 33% in 1985 by the end of last week. From such familiar favorites as General Electric and American Express to small, obscure companies like California-based IntelliCorp, which is developing artificial-intelligence programs for computers, the large majority of share prices went up. If investors picked stocks by throwing darts at the Wall Street Journal listings, they stood an excellent chance...
...stock had fallen 33% over the previous six months, and uneven sales trends have dogged the company for the past two years. This may turn out to be a spectacular opportunity for investors--but it carries significant uncertainties. Franklin's Felicelli suggests zeroing in on large blue-chip companies with a history of strong earnings growth and a management team that is dividend-centric. "You want a focus toward shareholders," he explains, "where companies have been growing cash flows and dividends over a period of time...
...perhaps it's no surprise that stodgy dividend stocks--blue-chip companies with modest but consistent single-digit earnings growth--have returned as an investment of choice. As Frank M. Felicelli, portfolio manager of the Franklin Equity Income fund, puts it, "It's back-to-basics investing...
...costly process of sorting through unorganized data stored on backup tapes to proactive email archiving with speedy search engines. In August, Veritas Software paid $225 million for e-mail archiver KVS, while fellow archiver Zantaz snapped up Steelpoint Technologies; both acquired companies provide e-discovery services to many a blue-chip client. E-mail archiver iLumin has also just created a discovery-services unit, which has attracted four of the five largest banks, with a filter that allows messages with questionable content to be quarantined for review...