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...also know that those who tried to save the day two weeks ago on Terrible Tuesday--the day the NASDAQ fell 13.6% but got almost all of it back in a matter of hours--are now worse off for their efforts. The index finished on Friday at 3321, well below the week-earlier bottom of 3649. Investors who had smugly picked up Cisco at $64 and watched it rebound to $76 were by late last week the proud owners of a $57 stock. That will probably work out for them longer term. But raise your hand if you think such...
Even after fulfilling his personal mission of achieving near zero inflation, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan seems to want to be the world's best micromanager [BUSINESS, April 3]. As your article noted, despite rising stock-market wealth, U.S. consumers are saving more and the Consumer Price Index would almost flat-line if not for high oil prices (which have risen as a result of supply shortages, not an irrational demand). We are living out Paul Simon's prophetic song that celebrates the joy of being Born at the Right Time. We can continue to do so, absent...
...earnings ratio, or P/E, derived by dividing a stock's price by its earnings per share. The dividend yield (the payout as a ratio of the stock price) also mattered. On that basis, stocks have been getting increasingly expensive. The P/E of stocks in the S&P 500 index has climbed from an average of 13 in Graham and Dodd's time to as much as 30 in recent years. The yield has practically disappeared...
...also developed an index to measure poverty while taking into account the distribution of resources among poor people and the average wealth of those in poverty...
...doubt that Dean Venky's idea of TECH will improve the opportunities for our undergraduates in what (despite the recent fall in the Nasdaq index!) is an important area, of entrepreneurship," he writes in an e-mail message...