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...region's star - have introduced tax reforms to encourage consumer spending, and others are pumping up demand with public expenditure. But the key driver of the recovery is easy money. Interest rates remain low, credit demand is up, and banks - the best of which have cleaned up their loan portfolios - are feeling generous again...
...industrials such as Boeing, Bandag, Cooper Industries and DuPont, all of which have trailing PEs of less than 19. But some, like power-systems giant Eaton, have become expensive. Even if rates rise, banks like Bank of America and Bank One, which have below-market PEs, should rise as loan demand and credit quality improve. And it may pay to think small. In general, small-cap and mid-cap companies have more attractive valuations. Focus on well-run mutual funds that invest in companies with market values of less than $5 billion. Two solid choices are CGM Focus and Armada...
...WorldCom's board, announced his resignation last week, the company was sinking under $28 billion in debt, a shriveling stock (which closed at $1.79 last week after peaking at $64.50 in mid-1999) and a Securities and Exchange Commission probe into the more than $400 million that WorldCom recently loaned or guaranteed to loan to Ebbers at a charitable 2.15% interest rate. Many disgruntled WorldCom execs were hoping that the new CEO, John Sidgmore, would run the company not from Clinton but from the MCI division offices in Ashburn...
Over at Leith Sharp’s Green Campus Initative, other environmental projects are in the works, including an interest-free loan fund for environmentally friendly campus renovations, and an exchange to educate campus decision-makers on how best to conserve energy...
...exchange for their membership in the Pi Eta Speakers Associates, Sigma Chi promised to arrange for a loan of $200,000 to fund capital improvements on the house and take on the responsibility for operating and maintaining the property. In September 1996, students again set up shop at 43-45 Mount Auburn...