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Everyone from Peter Lynch to your barber will tell you that before you invest in a company's stock, you should make sure it has great management. The best managers are agile enough to steer through trouble and exploit new opportunities. That's how Jack Welch at General Electric became a star and why GE perpetually trades at a higher multiple of earnings than the average stock. Welch is proven. You can buy his stock and throw it in a drawer. Ditto Charles Knight at Emerson Electric and Lawrence Bossidy at AlliedSignal...
...trade deficit ballooned $2.2 billion, to $16.8 billion. Warning signs abound that this involves more than just collapsing Asian and Latin American markets. After years of low unemployment, a number of major U.S. companies have responded to their earnings troubles with year-end job cuts, among them Merrill Lynch (3,400), Raytheon (14,000), LSI Logic (1,200) and Atlantic Richfield (900). For all of 1998, firings could hit 625,000, their high point for the decade...
...force euro-zone companies to become more competitive and attractive to investors. And with the euro, American businesses and travelers could save as much as 50% of the transaction costs they now pay to convert dollars into multiple European currencies. Says David Bowers, a European investment strategist with Merrill Lynch in London: "This will be the biggest shock to the global financial system since the move away from fixed exchange rates...
...boom as new money flows in. And the probability of a weakening dollar means Americans who move money into Euroland now might lock in exchange-rate profits. "There is a case for diversifying your portfolio into a currency area that provides an alternative to the U.S.," says Merrill Lynch's Bowers. "But there's no shortcut: you still have to find good companies." In the current European climate, the most promising sectors include consumer products, distribution, high tech, health care, insurance and telecommunications...
...likes of an orgasm, a nine-volt battery, the Grim Reaper and an atom in one of Elvis' combs. The show's unscripted feel and sub-Kukla production values make the bizarre punch lines even more jolting. The chemistry between the puppets springs from the longtime friendship of Liam Lynch and Matt Crocco, two childhood friends from Nashville who, while in different colleges, used the voices on each other's answering machines. Now struggling musicians with radically divergent musical tastes, they collaborate on this post-Beavis mockery of the future of America. Cool...