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...recoup his investment and time, Gilbert has proposed a novel way to sell scientific work which has important ramifications for university research; he believes he has the legal right to copyright his discoveries and sell them. Much like Dow Jones sells its stock quoting service to stockbrokers, Gilbert would place his genetic map in a large computer database and charge pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies an access...
...Then over the weekend, Chairman Fisher finally announced the firm's projections for third-quarter earnings: 40 cents to 55 cents a share, in contrast to 60 cents last year. It was this news that drove the stock down another 10 1/4 points last Monday. On Tuesday, when the Dow Jones industrial average climbed a record 75.23 points, the Gap managed an anemic 5/8-point rise. It closed on Friday at 36 3/4, down 10 1/2 points for the week...
Today's worrisome parallels to the 1920s begin with Wall Street. From 1925 to 1929, stock prices more than doubled. But during the current bull market, the Dow Jones industrial average has more than tripled in value since the run- up began in August 1982. During the rally's first phase, investors put their money in stocks based on their intrinsic value, which was backed by corporate profits and dividends. But in the later stages, the betting has become almost purely speculative, as investors pour cash into the market in fear of missing the free ride. At this point, many...
That situation sets the market up for a fall, when investors suddenly realize the party is over. Already, the Dow Jones industrial average has started to show signs of second thoughts. Between late August and mid- September the index fell almost 200 points, prompting investors to wonder whether the reckoning was finally at hand. But last week came relief. The Dow took a 75.23-point jump on Tuesday, the largest one-day advance in history, before easing back to 2570.17, up 45.53 for the week...
...Journal has long been a newspaper with a split personality -- editorials written by "true believers" and the news reported by true skeptics. The man charged with reconciling these contrary forces doesn't believe in doing so. He is Warren H. Phillips, chairman and chief executive of the parent Dow Jones & Co., a low-keyed fellow who in his own eight years as managing editor of the Journal discovered that managing editors simply disregard the elephant of the editorial page. Yet as the boss, he encourages such somber trumpetings as a recent editorial branding the President's peace initiation as "Reagan...