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...endurance of a marathon runner. The stock-market rally that began more than three years ago is as robust as ever. The stampede, spurred at first by a sharp drop in interest rates, started on Friday, Aug. 13, 1982, with a twelve-point rise in the closely watched Dow Jones industrial average, to 788. The runaway Dow took only six months to close above the 1100 mark for the first time ever and just two more to break 1200. Though the market slowed to a more dawdling pace for more than a year, it came roaring back again last spring...
...dollar was more than 80% stronger than in 1980. Foreign goods became cheap, and American products became dear. Result: a staggering trade deficit that led to strong protectionist sentiment on Capitol Hill. Even successful multinational corporations have been hurt by shifting currency rates. Complained Paul Orrefice, president of Dow Chemical: "Nothing hurts business like the uncertainty we confront on the foreign-exchange markets...
...Dow Chemical was asked to report on its management’s new initiatives for survivors of the 1984 chemical accident at a plant in Bhopal, India owned by Union Carbide—now a subsidiary of Dow Chemical. The proposal said Dow Chemical has a “humanitarian responsibility” to address the disaster victims’ concerns, regardless of a lack of current liability...
...past two years, the U.S. stock market has been at a virtual standstill as the Dow Jones industrial average has hovered at around 10,000. Investors are distrustful of corporate earnings reports and skeptical about Wall Street's projections...
...weeks (good to know if you're a record label). London-based Semagix licenses WebFountain to help its large banking customers track suspicious money flows. "Instead of looking at 5,000 documents, we're only looking at 20," explains Larry Levy, Semagix's president and CEO. Factiva, owned by Dow Jones and Reuters, has licensed WebFountain to help its customers track their corporate reputations. As IBM's Gruhl puts it, "It's a huge untapped area where people are getting blindsided by things that are developing on the Internet in chat rooms, in discussion forums or in blogs...