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...Caterpillar is the ultimate hardware maker, fashioning massive steel earthmovers in vast factories that spark and clang, Microsoft, which recently announced its first serious job cuts, is the behemoth of software, silently manipulating ones and zeros. Worlds apart, they've come together in the layoff business. Whether a company chops trees (Weyerhaeuser) or prices (Target), whether it sells Lipitor (Pfizer) or lumber (Home Depot), whether it services oil rigs (Baker Hughes) or cell phones (Sprint Nextel), job one is cutting payroll...
...where are you investing now? We were in defensive stocks all last year, and that's still the bulk of our portfolio. Johnson & Johnson, Kraft, Pfizer, Microsoft - a lot of stocks that have great positioning in the market, really strong balance sheets to weather problems, stable top line. Those sorts of stocks have stability in down markets, though that stability hurts you when things start taking off. Around the edges now, in October and November, we started adding some more aggressive names, like some of the oil guys which bounced real hard. We bought Anadarko. We bought Valero...
...Microsoft (MSFT) said its last quarter was bad, and looking out over the next six months, its businesses will probably deteriorate further. With sharp personnel cuts and the sale of its video game operation, the fortunes at the world's largest software company could rapidly change and the stock could outperform the market. Of course, management may be stubborn and there may be no restructuring at all. (See pictures of Bill Gates: The Early Years...
...Microsoft • thousands of employees laid...
Yahoo! remains the No. 2 search company in the U.S., with about 18% of the market. Google (GOOG), by most measures, is far ahead, at 65%. Microsoft falls far behind at 10%. It is unlikely that Yahoo! will regain market share on the PC, but the wireless market has not been carved up. It may take years before it is clear who leads in Web searches on handsets. It is also unclear which company will take the wireless lead in Europe, India, China and Japan. Yahoo! still has a shot at a prominent position for its core business beyond...