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...Well, if the past few months have shown anything, it is that the president's talk of ethical investing is so much win dow-dressing. His statements on divestiture in 1979 and again today set forth complex ethical standards for University holdings, as Bok drew moral lines that conveniently exculpated Harvard. But statements by Hugh Calkins '45, chairman of a key Corporation subcommittee, have indicated the real line Harvard invests to make money, period Ethical considerations are irrelevant...
Wall Street's bull market suffered a temporary setback last Monday, when the Dow Jones industrial average plunged 21.87 points, its steepest slide in almost two months. Later in the week, though, the market charged back smartly and closed at 1232.59, another record high. The short-lived sell-off was sparked by Barton Biggs, 50, chief portfolio strategist for Morgan Stanley & Co., the Manhattan investment banking firm that handles $7 billion in investments for clients, including about $5 billion from Kuwait. During a routine Monday-morning planning session, the gist of which was flashed to Morgan's clients...
Biggs' judgment has not often been amiss. Last July he was one of a handful of Wall Streeters predicting that the Dow would break 1000 by year's end. It reached a high...
Representatives of ABC, NBC, Newsweek, and the Wall Street Journal, among others, submitted affidavits supporting CBS. Confidentiality for in-house investigations is vital for editors at the Journal, noted Dow Jones News Vice President Edward Cony. "Anything that interferes with their ability to confer with one another fully and candidly diminishes their ability to exercise properly their responsibilities as editors...
...normal way to amass a controlling majority of a company's stock is a tender offer or a proxy fight. But takeover by tender has become much more expensive because stock prices have risen more than 50% on the average since August in the ongoing bull market. The Dow Jones industrial average closed last week at a record 1226.20. Buying a controlling interest may have been possible a year ago for only a few million dollars; now the price could be much higher...