Word: portfolios
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...bank has not received TARP funds, it means one of two things," says Michael Levine, a portfolio manager at OppenheimerFunds. "Either you are strong enough that you don't need the funds, or, two, you are screwed...
...Beyond its trademark cola, Pepsi has 17 distinct brands, ranging from Lay's and Doritos to Cheetos and Quaker Foods, that each generate more than $1 billion a year in sales. That's a power portfolio by any measure. But this year has taken a big bite out of the company's profitability. Cost inflation of close to 10% in 2008 means each bag of chips has cost Pepsi more to produce, even as belt-tightening consumers resist paying more for their food. Earlier this year, skyrocketing prices for corn, rice, wheat, vegetable oils and other key ingredients further added...
...their industry groups, industry groups are diverging from one another. Data that indicate an increase in inflation, for example, may shock an entire industry, but if that industry is food, stocks go down, and if it's energy, they go up. Merrill Lynch's quantitative strategy group runs paper portfolios based on different stock-picking methodologies, and the industry-selection model has trounced all the others over the past ten months. ("Trounced" meaning lost a lot less.) While the industry-rotation portfolio is down 22%, those strategies that tease out particular growth or value stocks to buy have suffered...
Forward-thinking medical institutions are taking a hard look at their energy portfolio. "I've seen a huge uptick in hospitals exploring and investigating" ways to reduce fossil-fuel dependence, says Nick DeDominicis of Practice Green Health, particularly since 2007 when World Health Organization and U.N. reports suggested that climate change due to fossil-fuel use and CO2 emissions could threaten public health. Hospitals, such as the California-based Kaiser Permanente and San Francisco's Catholic Healthcare West, have gone greener by swapping out old equipment for more energy-efficient systems of heating, cooling, lighting and dehumidifying. DeDominicis says...
...choreography settled well into the nooks and crannies of Klucevsek’s music as dancers shifted their motions to match a longing waltz, a confident tango-based string passage, and a frenetic, animalistic segment reminiscent of a snapshot from Salvador Dali’s surrealist portfolio. But the transitions between McCusker’s creative motifs seemed unsteady at times, as the dancers’ changes in character seemed to lag during these moments. The occasional shaky turns and a lighting scheme that sometimes masked the dancers’ facial expressions did little to detract from the overall performance...