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...begin your preinterview research in the OCS library. Useful directories include Standard and Poor's Register of Corporations, Directors and Executives, Dun and Bradstreet's Reference Book of Corporate Managements, and the Wall Street Index Binder. OCS also receives Institutional Investor, Business Week, Fortune and The Wall Street Journal, as well as housing a collection of company information such as annual reports. In addition, each recruiting company fills out a fact sheet about positions or training programs, location of employment, and required concentrations. Those are kept in a binder in the recruiting room...
...bill has other flaws the staff position ignores completely. Whether or not one thinks that the proposed capital gains cut will help the economy, the current bill does nothing to index capital-gains taxes to inflation, which is basic to the "fairness" that the staff purports to uphold...
...Japan the epic slide of the Tokyo stock market began with fear of rising interest rates at home, and has been accelerated by rocketing oil prices abroad. Tokyo's Nikkei index has fallen from its peak of 38,915 last December to a closing price of 22,828 last week. "This has probably been the largest bear market in any country since World War II," says Peter Tasker, head of research at Kleinwort Benson International in Tokyo. In a fleeting burst of euphoria, the index zoomed a record 13% last Tuesday, but much of the gain was the result...
...leaders with agonizing choices. To spur the slumping economy, the Federal Reserve Board would normally loosen credit and allow interest rates to fall. But Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan has been reluctant to do that because of the inflationary pressure of rising oil prices, which helped push the consumer price index to an annual rate of nearly 10% in August. Greenspan has suggested that interest rates would be allowed to fall if the Administration and Congress can reach a credible deficit-cutting agreement, which would reduce the pressure of government borrowing on the credit markets. As a result, Wall Streeters have...
CAPTION: Tokyo Nikkei Index...