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While its current four-year contract is up on July 1, HUSPMGU wages were renegotiated last May in line with HCECP recommendations, increasing the minimum wage paid to security guards from $8.75 an hour to $12.25 an hour. Entry-level wages rose further last July, to $12.70. Though entry-level salaries were raised dramatically, all of the in-house security guards earned $11.97 before the renegotiation, more than the $10.68 minimum-wage named by the report...
...consider switching from Oracle Database to its Microsoft and IBM rivals. The idea of Oracle splashing out $5.1 billion on PeopleSoft also unnerved investment analysts at Moody's, who downgraded the firm's outlook for Oracle from stable to negative; however, few investors followed suit. Oracle's stock rose to $13.48 at the end of the week, up 3% over the previous week's close...
Thank heavens for big spenders overseas. In the past decade, domestic profits of U.S. companies have increased only 19%, while those of their foreign subsidiaries have risen 173%. From the second quarter of 2001 to the first quarter of this year, domestic earnings fell 11%, while foreign earnings rose 7%. Overseas profits as a percentage of total earnings have nearly doubled over the past decade, to 39% from 22%. A weak dollar, which boosts the value of profits booked in foreign currencies, has helped recent offshore performance. But, says Prudential Securities chief economist Richard Rippe, these numbers show "the resourcefulness...
...understandable. That's where most brokerage clients have most of their stock-market money. It's also unfortunate because small stocks tend to beat large stocks coming out of a recession. In the 12-month period following the end of each of the past 10 recessions, small stocks rose an average of 28%, vs. 19% for large stocks, according to fund company T. Rowe Price. In only one instance (1961) did large stocks beat small stocks after a recession--and it was by the slimmest of margins...
...Comey, the U.S. Attorney, said Stewart made these statements "to stop the slide of the stock price" of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia and deceived shareholders who otherwise would be worried that insider-trading allegations would damage a company built entirely around the image of its namesake. (The stock indeed rose briefly after Stewart's early statements defending herself but last week was down to $10.24 a share, from $19.01 before the scandal broke...