Word: stocke
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...released endowment figures for the past few months. Yale investors speculate, however, that the school may be more immune to market ills than other universities. "We may be somewhat more insulated from changes than other schools because we only have one-third [of our endowment] invested in the stock market," said Cynthia L. Atwood, a spokesperson for Yale. "We have a very diversified portfolio...
...from Buying a Car for Dummies to Sex for Dummies (by Dr. Ruth Westheimer). With 50 million copies in print in 38 languages, sales reached $120 million in 1997, up 23% from the year before--a robust enough growth curve to allow parent company IDG to complete a public stock offering this summer...
Interest will probably surge following eBay's initial public offering of stock last week. The shares, priced at $18, more than doubled in value by week's end, leaving the firm's founder, Pierre Omidyar, 31, with a stake worth more than $600 million. Inspired by a girlfriend who wanted to trade Pez candy dispensers on the Net, Omidyar launched eBay in 1995 and--a rarity among online companies--almost immediately made money. He charged 25[cents] to $2 for each listing and a commission of 1.25% to 5% on each sale...
...were slavish," he adds, without apparent irony. The film is also attentive to the change of seasons in the year of the story's life; the surrounding woods and streams are limned in lustrous imagery. But the whole picture, with its flashes of desaturated color and reversal film stock, is a visual trip. In one sense, this ranks as Demme's most adventurous and painterly film. Like Spielberg, another movie boy wonder in his 50s, Demme has made a new movie that plunders and enriches the cinematic vocabulary...
Online trading can be intoxicating. The commissions are so low and the action so fast-paced that hundreds of thousands of new people each month find themselves hooked into the Internet, trading for $8 a pop, loving the excitement and potentially the rewards. But has online trading turned the stock market into a giant casino that threatens the financial lives of Americans? That's what John Steffens, a Merrill Lynch vice chairman in charge of stock brokerage, contends. He has gone to war against Internet trading in a series of public speeches, chronicled last week in the Wall Street Journal...