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The Salvation Army welcomes donations into its seasonal kettles, but it also values volunteers. Two hours of your family's time ringing bells beside a red kettle could be the most rewarding trip to the mall you've ever made. If you don't know which charities are active in...
The folks at McGraw-Hill, who keep the averages, are a secretive bunch. They didn't explain why Laidlaw, an obscure Canadian company, got the ax and Yahoo got in. But one thing is certain. If this index is going to maintain its integrity as a diversified assemblage of our...
Right now there are more large-cap companies outside the index than at any other time in history, because of investors' massive reweighting toward technology companies. Among those we consider potential admittees are JDS Uniphase, a $42 billion fiber optics company; online retailing colossus Amazon, with $36 billion in market...
Who might get the gate when these newbies claim S&P seats? Such well-known but decidedly no-tech companies as shoemaker Reebok; Russell, the apparel company; and car-part king Pep Boys.
But remember, if you decide to play, that we rarely know when the announcements will be made--these are closely guarded knightings--and the move, while swift on the upside, can be just as death-defying the day after admission. Yahoo, which traded millions upon millions of shares at $348...