Word: dowe
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FORTUNE Business Report gives you the down and dirty from the day on Wall Street. Wednesday: slow going for Mr. Dow...
FORTUNE Business Report gives you the down and dirty from the day on Wall Street. Wednesday: slow going for Mr. Dow...
Just in from the Fed: There will be no change in short-term interest rates. Which was exactly what Wall Street was expecting; trading on both the Dow and NASDAQ was robust all day, and was expected to continue unflinching in the wake of the announcement. Faced with weighing the high-octane U.S. economy against the tenuous financial markets overseas, the Fed has not changed rates since late March; they will remain at 5.5 percent. In Money Daily...
...specter of a sell-off of the division or some broader restructuring has moved Dow Jones stock to its highest price since 1987; last Friday it closed at $54. Several Dow Jones insiders noted Rupert Murdoch's recent visit to Dow Jones headquarters for a meeting with Kann, and both Microsoft's Bill Gates and Buffett have privately expressed interest in the company, believing the Journal and Dow Jones brands are all underleveraged assets. Jettisoning one weak division may not be a panacea. The company will probably take an estimated $800 million write-off. And strategically it will become weaker...
...Dow Jones may solve part of that strategic problem by taking a second stab at television, another distribution outlet where it has fared badly. The company is expected to announce a deal this week with CNBC under which it would provide Dow Jones' business news to the CNBC and MSNBC cable channels. Earlier this year, Dow Jones launched WBIS+ in New York City with ITT. But ITT forced a sale of the station after that company became the target of a hostile takeover by Hilton Hotels. "Our New York television adventure can only be described as a detour," says Dow...