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Take a longer-term view and success is a little trickier. That's why TIME asked investment-tracker Morningstar to pull together a list of the best-performing stocks over the past decade. On the eve of 2010, we figured it was time to take a look back and see which companies most thrived during the aughts. If a company can maintain its momentum over 10 years, maybe there's something to be learned. (See the best business deals...
...with railroads, steelmakers, producers of heavy machinery and makers of technical instruments. These aren't companies you can compete with just by starting a business out of your garage. Sure, industrial pumps, valves and seals aren't exactly sexy, but if you've owned parts-maker Flowserve over the past decade, you're probably happy with your 499% return. At the other end of the spectrum, only two media companies make the list - broadcaster Central European Media Enterprises and comic-book-based Marvel Enterprises (which Disney is buying). For the most part, companies that go head to head with...
...course, as is always the case with the stock market, a company's past performance, magnificent though it may be, doesn't necessarily indicate what's going to happen in the future. In fact, today's chart-toppers are often tomorrow's laggards. Still, with a decade of solid returns already on the books, maybe there's more reason than there usually is to believe that these companies have staying power...
...critical last Saturday before Christmas. That has added to pressure on department store retailers to make unplanned markdowns on select items in the final days, says Matthew Katz, a managing director at AlixPartners, a business advisory firm. Katz notes that many retailers launched aggressive TV ads in the past few days. "That's an indication there's a little bit of tension and nervousness," he says...
...MSNBC that of the last-minute changes to the Senate bill made by Reid, the strengthening of the MLR regulations was "the most important thing of all ... It requires insurance companies not to take quite as much off the top of your premiums as they have in the past." MLR regulations are just one of the discrepancies, including the public option and abortion funding, between the House and Senate bills that would have to be reconciled in conference committee before a final piece of legislation could be voted on and sent to President Obama. Rockefeller intends to fight hard...