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...jingo, buy American The S&P 500 stock market index dropped all foreign companies to focus exclusively on the domestic U.S. market. Although ousted firms like Unilever expressed disappointment, the long-term impact on their prices is expected to be minimal...
...Internet six times a day to see my returns." De Jonge isn't the only one looking for the exit. London's FTSE 100 touched a five-year low last week, and so far in 2002 the blue-chip European companies that make up the Dow Jones Stoxx 50 index have declined 24%. That bonfire of capital has been fueled only in part by the revelations of corporate sleaze on the other side of the Atlantic. "Even if Europe hasn't had a scandal like Enron or WorldCom," says Sorbonne economist Christian de Boissieu, "the situation confronting our telecom operators...
...SPREAD YOUR BETS Even if you want to pick individual stocks, placing most of your equity investments in a broad index fund, like Vanguard Total Stock Market, remains the best way to keep a corporate crook from blowing the bulk of your wealth to bits. And remember: it's at frightening times just like these that stocks offer the highest future returns. So cover yourself but don't bail out of the market entirely. --By Jason Zweig. With reporting by Cybele Weisser
...being described as the largest gang of upper-income banditti since the Ponzi, Insull, bank and bucket shop defendants of the early thirties. The recent peak-to-trough decline of nearly 75% in the tech-heavy Nasdaq also happens to represent the steepest decline in a major stock market index since the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell more than 80% between...
...headlines always come with asterisks pointing to scriptural footnotes. That is how Todd Strandberg reads his paper. By day, he is fixing planes at Offutt Air Force Base in Bellevue, Neb. But in his off-hours, he's the webmaster at raptureready.com and the inventor of the Rapture Index, which he calls a "Dow Jones Industrial Average of End Time activity." Instead of stocks, it tracks prophecies: earthquakes, floods, plagues, crime, false prophets and economic measurements like unemployment that add to instability and civil unrest, thereby easing the way for the Antichrist. In other words, how close...