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...eager. Let the market stabilize, even if it means missing the early stage of a rally. In the short run, stay away from most airline, insurance, travel, leisure and high-end retailer stocks. Utilities, discount retailers, food and drug companies, defense contractors and select tech firms including wireless and surveillance should hold up. Above all, don't sell just to sell. "You want to buy into panics, not sell into them," says Peter Canelo, U.S. investment strategist at Morgan Stanley...
...than to follow in the footsteps of Lou Gerstner. The IBM chief inherited a company torn by turf wars and paralyzed by too many products in the early '90s. Gerstner healed wounds, cut the sprawl and scaled back the low-margin consumer-PC business, focusing instead on supremely stable high-end servers and the lucrative service contracts that came with them. "IBM is proof that it can be turned around," says Tony Paoni, professor of technology and e-commerce at Northwestern University's Kellogg School. "If I were Carly, my first call would...
Reebok's big-league deals will really start paying off in three years through a heightened profile among youth, about the time that Michael Jordan will have to hang up his high-tops for good. "You don't get cool by writing checks," says Fireman. The Reebok chief is counting on his big-league deals and projects like Diamond, a kind of high-end designer boutique within Reebok that aims to develop the trendsetting sneakers and street fashion of tomorrow. This time around, Paul Fireman's state of rebellion may be here to stay for a while...
...Also on Tuesday, more goat entrails from the chip sector, with the trade group Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (yes, that spells SEMI) announces its July book-to-bill ratio. Watch Intel (whose expected 54-percent price cut on is high-end chips is due on Sunday) and AMD for meaning; analyst sentiment on the sector remains mixed...
...combined Sanmina and SCI, however, will be well positioned to challenge the industry's top players. The new company will offer a powerful mix of full-service manufacturing, from low-end components to high-end finished products. It will make everything from glucose meters to computer printers and cellular base stations. In any given week, its anonymous factories will produce as many as 5 million units of high-tech gadgetry--all bearing other companies' names...