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Shareholders continue to be amply rewarded. GE is up modestly this year, while the Dow is down 8%. Call it the Welch premium. GE's remarkable ability to keep its stock rising means investors are willing to pay more for it. Currently, they pay $43 for every $1 of annual GE earnings. At Honeywell, investors before the announced takeover were paying a mere $21 for $1 of earnings...
...towards the reduction of our greenhouse gas production. Unfortunately, tangible successes for control of these substances in the United States to date have come exclusively from the private sector, where individual companies and corporations have taken it upon themselves to explore new alternatives. In the past year, Ford, DaimlerChrysler, Dow Chemical, IBM and Johnson & Johnson have all made (and followed through with) pledges to cut their production of carbon dioxide; recently, Du Pont, Shell and others joined in a voluntary plan to reduce the wasteful use of energy and produce cleaner products. And just last week, BP and Ford donated...
...times - in late May, mid-October and late last week - the tech index has flirted with 3,000 and jerked back from the brink. Add to that the end of October - traditionally the month of earnings news, tax-loss selling by mutual funds and bottoms (not a coincidence) - a Dow afire for three straight sessions and an election about to conclude, and we've got indications that the 3,000 milestone may belong in NASDAQ's rearview mirror...
...Dow was largely excluded from the recent hypervaluation of tech stocks, and so now is it being largely excluded from the bloodbath on Wall Street's hipper half. Mostly, what the Dow has been doing lately is a jagged languishing, seesawing from 10,500 in May to 11,250 in September down to the magic 10,000 this month...
...Dow side, though, that stuff is still catnip for Alan Greeenspan, and lower interest rates is what America's big companies crave. So as the economy slows down - without screeching to a halt, of course - blue-chip investors like their chances for a bullish winter and spring, and Dow 13,000 has been bandied about rather credibly lately...