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...midst of an ambitious strategy to reinvent itself as the automobile industry's most socially and consumer-conscious force. Ford has staked its future on honesty. "The reason that they are spending so much money on this is that their credibility is at stake," says Merrill Lynch analyst John Casesa. "They are hoping that this obsessiveness now will in the end benefit the company...
...that it is directing capital to companies best left for dead. What really ails the tech sector is too much capacity, which won't go away until investors ration capital properly. "Anything that deters consolidation is a long-term negative for tech," says Richard Bernstein, a strategist at Merrill Lynch. He notes that telecom companies, in which overcapacity is greatest, have been sucking up 30% of proceeds from stock and bond sales this year; energy firms, just 25%--a frightful misallocation...
PLAN B, FOR TYPE A's On the opposite side are 401(k) investors who like instruments traded in real time. For them, the likes of Barclays Global Investors, State Street Global Advisors, Merrill Lynch and the Bank of New York are looking into adding exchange-traded funds to retirement-plan options. These hybrid instruments track indices the way an index fund does--you own the whole market--yet they can be traded like a stock. David Blitzer, Standard & Poor's chief investment strategist, recommends them for 401(k)s because they're easy to understand and offer diversification...
...Nanni Moretti's family drama The Son's Room; second prize and both actor awards to Michael Haneke's sexual war of wills The Piano Teacher; the screenplay citation to a Bosnian film, Danis Tanovic's No Man's Land; and director laurels to two Americans, David Lynch for Mulholland Dr. and Joel Coen for The Man Who Wasn't There. Worthy films all - but the best of a mediocre bunch...
...Lynch and Coen pictures would make a fine set of bookends for your hardboiled fiction shelf. Both are set in the prime film-noir territory of sunny, sepulchral California: Los Angeles, home of Philip Marlowe (among other truth seekers) and moviemakers (among other chronic liars) for Mulholland Dr.; Santa Rosa (scene of Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt) for the toxic scent of small-town failure in The Man Who Wasn't There. Both films serve up a lovely, lurid brew of greed, murder and twisted identities. But the Coen movie, with Billy Bob Thornton and Frances McDormand locked...