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...letter also urged the committee to consider writing a letter "as an independent investor" urging Kohl's to "take action regarding these factories...
...heard all the bad news about third-quarter earnings," says tech investor Kevin Landis, portfolio manager at Firsthand Funds. "The good news comes next." Landis expects investors to come back into tech stocks fairly soon, though he doubts they'll flock back into the old bellwethers Intel and Microsoft, which in the minds of some of the tech savvy are on the verge of becoming also-rans. A new list of tech bellwethers is developing, agrees Jeff Applegate, market strategist at Lehman Brothers. It includes networking and e-commerce facilitators like EMC, JDS Uniphase, BEA Systems, Corning and Siebel Systems...
...voucher method. Although the state kept a majority stake, that share was subsequently diluted. In 1998 the state unloaded its remaining stake (36.29%) to Nomura, the Japanese investment bank, which resold its shares to a passive Dutch shareholder. At no point did the bank have a strategic investor to oversee its conduct. Depositors panicked last June and took out some $440 million in deposits in just three days. On June 16, two dozen members of the Czech antiterrorist police, wielding submachine guns, took over the bank's downtown headquarters at the government's behest and sent management packing...
...head of TIAA-CREF, the pension-fund giant, which launched its own social fund. "Amy brings investment discipline with social concerns." Domini's latest crusade: persuading the $7 trillion U.S. mutual-fund industry to post shareholder-resolution votes on its websites. "It's outrageous that managers are not telling investors how they vote," says Domini. "The small investor wants to fatten her wallet, but she also wants to breathe clean air and work in a safe environment...
...session and settled at $35.50 a barrel, and heating oil prices have hit new highs again. So much for the NASDAQ's signs of life Wednesday afternoon; the tech index started the day up but got swept into a 93-point slide as visions of the '70s danced in investor's heads...