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What do corporate chiefs know about the market? Individually, very little. Star honchos like Jack Welch at General Electric and Bill Gates at Microsoft can't time the Dow any better than the Beardstown Ladies. But they clearly know more about their own companies than anyone on Wall Street. So their actions as a group say something about the market as a whole. That's why analysts monitor things like insider stock transactions, new stock offerings and corporate stock buybacks. Even for wealthy CEOs, the object is to buy low and sell high, whether in managing the company's coffers...
Hailed by members of both parties as an outstanding negotiator, Raines spent months working behind the scenes to make possible the agreement that has undoubtedly helped send the Dow soaring to new heights as our national economic confidence rises. Forsaking the vastly higher salaries and benefits available in the private sector, Raines has spent two and a half years of service in the fray of the nation's capital, with its media frenzy and partisan battles...
More stunning was the amount of public outrage that followed: there was none. The notion of giving individuals the power to invest at least part of their payroll taxes--in stocks, bonds or another savings plan they might choose--raised hardly a complaint in a week when the Dow closed above 9000 for the first time. The stock-market boom has, it seems, turned Americans into a nation of risk takers. In a TIME/CNN poll last week, 60% of those surveyed said they would like to play the market with some of their Social Security taxes; and if they could...
...befoul even the sweetest of spring breezes, take heart: You, the American people, are in the money. Among the roses that came up Tuesday: The Labor Department announced Tuesday that inflation in March was -- get this -- zero. That's the second nil reading in three months this year. The Dow, meanwhile, was up 100 in afternoon trading, and traders seem intent on dancing on 9000's grave...
INDEXCLOSE CHANGE Dow Jones Industrial 8986.64 +118.32 S&P 500 1120.01 +11.86 NYSE 582.04 +5.63 Nasdaq 1852.96 +5.30 AMEX...