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...creation. Virtually every institution holds Microsoft stock, including those that manage your retirement accounts. Fidelity Investments has 149 million shares spread among 60 funds. If the bottom ever falls out of this baby, look out. The collateral damage will be nuclear, especially now that Microsoft is part of the Dow Jones industrial average...
...treadmills and stationary bicycles, and use light boxes that are designed to suppress melatonin, which induces sleep. So far, a third of those involved in the Williams program have reported improvements in their alertness and energy levels. Many other U.S. companies, like Sony Electronics, Brown & Williamson Tobacco and Dow Chemical, are offering their employees innovative programs similar to those at Williams. Some--though not many--U.S. companies, like Schwab, Deloitte Touche, Schlumberger and CSX Corp., even approve of at-work naps to improve alertness...
Tuesday was the day we finally said good-bye to the old Wall Street. In the morning, the Dow Jones Company announced it was dumping four underperforming stocks from its Industrial Average in favor of four darlings of the new economy. Out were old-school companies Sears, Goodyear, Chevron and Union Carbide. In their place the 30-company index added Intel, Microsoft, SBC Communications and Home Depot. If nothing else, adding four high-flying stocks will be good medicine for an index mired for the past month in the Dow-drums...
...came quickly indeed. Investors spotted the doubling of the PPI on Friday morning and sold stocks like so many hot potatoes. The Dow shed over 200 points in oh, the first 15 minutesof trading after the bell, with the NASDAQ following suit. But an hour later, the sell-off had screeched to a halt. Despite Greenspan's hint, says Baumohl, investors had overreacted again. "That producer-price number is probably more of a spike than a trend. Oil prices have probably peaked, and gains in productivity will probably help companies absorb this increase rather than passing it on to consumers...
...headed for a tepid autumn overall as Y2K uncertainties loom larger and larger. But the Fed chairman also knows how this market loves to panic about numbers, and he wants everybody to just calm down. By late afternoon the Street had ignored him all over again, and a deadened Dow had finished its worst week in recent memory by briefly dipping below 10,000 before settling in at 10,019. At this rate, the CPI had better be sparkling...