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...miles of rail, at $2 million a mile. With delays persisting along the busy transcon route, crews are out in the barren expanses of the Texas-Oklahoma Panhandle finishing up a two-year project to double track 100 miles of rail. BNSF is also rushing to add 344 GE locomotives--at a price of $1.3 million each--before federal investment incentives expire and more stringent pollution-control standards become...
...entering," Breen says. "My first day, almost 20% of our investor base showed up--in the third hour--in my office." They wanted to know how Breen was going to restore credibility to a health-care, electronics and security-alarm company that once aspired to be the next GE before Kozlowski's fall brought it to disrepute. The new CEO moved quickly. In his first six months he replaced Tyco's board of directors wholesale, fired the entire top corporate team and hired 80 executives to fill their spots. He also set out to restructure the company's $24 billion...
...yield in 2003. For example, General Electric, which yields 2.5%, rose 27% last year--in line with the market average. But Lucent, which pays no dividend and barely survived the recession, more than doubled. Lucent's run has extended into the new year--it's up another 38%--while GE is up just...
...this year and beyond, save room for dividend payers. Byron Wien, market strategist at Morgan Stanley, predicts that a surge in the prices of stocks with a yield will be one of the big surprises of 2004 and that the year's winners will include Pfizer, Wyeth, Bristol-Myers, GE, Microsoft (it started paying a dividend last year), Coca-Cola and Altria. Any number of mutual funds focus on dividend payers. Among the best are Fidelity Dividend Growth, T. Rowe Price Dividend Growth and (if you invest through a broker) Capital Income Builder from the American Funds group...
...story), North Korea has opened up its nuclear facilities to an outside delegation, and Libya wants to be everybody's friend. Will the peace last? Sure - about as long as most New Year's resolutions do. - By Jim Ledbetter Slow Justice BELGIUM A jury at a Liège court found six men guilty of complicity in the 1991 shooting murder of socialist Deputy Prime Minister André Cools. The court handed...