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...socially inclined investors, performance isn't the only consideration when purchasing stock. The newly launched Corporate Social Research Center on socialfunds.com's site does social and environmental assessments on more than 1,000 U.S. and foreign companies, including those listed in the S&P 500 and the Domini Social Index. It's a fast way to see how companies rank in categories like employee relations, community programs and hazardous-waste disposal...
...Monday, both indexes were ailing; by lunchtime, the Dow was down 215 points to 10,386 and the NASDAQ down 158 to 2870. The Dow tends to be more responsive to political considerations; the tech index has plenty of its own troubles to worry about. A bad profit warning from Dow component and tech bellwether Hewlett Packard helped sellers in both indexes make up their minds Monday, but it's generally agreed that the dawning of another week of election madness is starting to be a big part of the problem across the board...
Three words: ratings-percentage index (RPI). The RPI is calculated based on a weighted average of a team's record, the records of a team's opponents, and the records of a team's opponents' opponents...
...other comparisons--record against common opponents and head-to-head results--only matter when distinguishing between teams with relatively close results on the index...
...Would you settle for "possibly"? Last week traders were buzzing that "there's no such thing as a quadruple bottom," meaning that three times - in late May, mid-October and late last week - the tech index has flirted with 3,000 and jerked back from the brink. Add to that the end of October - traditionally the month of earnings news, tax-loss selling by mutual funds and bottoms (not a coincidence) - a Dow afire for three straight sessions and an election about to conclude, and we've got indications that the 3,000 milestone may belong in NASDAQ's rearview...