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...been four years since the Dow Jones industrial average first reached 10,000. Imagine that--only four years since investors convinced themselves that what went up wouldn't come down, that earnings did not really matter and that every budding technology company was a Microsoft in the making...
Each strategy is appropriate--for the right investor. You might even do best with a few quality high-yield stocks. Why? It's difficult to find a proven stock fund that yields more than 2%, yet you can get yields of 4% or more with shares of Dow Chemical (4.1%) or FleetBoston (4.7%). Individual stocks also let you sidestep fund fees. What you give up is diversification, which provides shelter from things like Kodak's 72% dividend cut last month...
...Medicare, a spokesman says the government is pleased the lawsuit can go forward. If it succeeds, it won't be the first time the feds have recovered funds to cover the cost of treating implant injuries. A year ago, several agenceis were awarded $10 million as part of the Dow Corning bankruptcy settlement- and also received $100,000 from Inamed, the same company that is the subject of the October FDA meeting. An FDA spokeswoman had no comment on the Medicare lawsuits...
...Krugman, analysis of the Dow also requires analysis of George W. Bush. Krugman explains in The Great Unraveling’s preface that he hopes his book will show how “taken together these columns tell a coherent story...
Once again the U.S. is pulling the world out of a slump. If form holds, emerging markets, Asia and Europe will play follow the eagle. So if you've been sitting on your thumbs while the Dow has soared 27% since mid-March, don't compound the error by piling into U.S. stocks now. Instead, get in on the recovery rally overseas...