Word: stockings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Porsches come in chocolate brown? After 92 years as an employee-owned, privately held bastion of brown-suited Americana, UPS has heard the stock market?s siren song. The company will sell 10 percent of itself in a public offering later this year. And TIME Wall Street columnist Daniel Kadlec says this brown-paper package is going to go like hotcakes. "This is the most direct nondirect way to get invested in the Internet," he says. "Fed Ex stock has done very well as a way to cash in on the e-tailing boom through shipping ?- and UPS ships four...
...general poured $2.9 billion into Microsoft's coffers, more than half its total income. Maffei also cited sales of Windows, improved sales in Asia (worth $570 million) and better performance from Microsoft's web ventures, such as MSN. Maffei also confirmed that Microsoft was considering creating a "tracking" stock for its Internet properties. MORE...
...means they?ll be coming thick and fast in the near future. "The economy is strong, the Fed won?t raise rates in August, and earnings, as a whole, have been excellent," says TIME senior economic correspondent Bernard Baumohl. "There?s no real reason to be concerned about the stock market...
Sometimes Wall Street gets captivated by a business model, and everybody just goes nuts trying to find companies that fit it. When I got in the business in the early '80s, everybody wanted to find the next Merck, which was a fabulous stock for so many years. Later, people wanted to find the next Microsoft. Then we searched for the next Amgen, and for the past few years we've wanted to find the next Intel. Recently we wanted to find the next WorldCom and the next America Online...
...past few years, buried by raging big caps. But it may be time to get small. The average micro-cap fund surged 19.8% in the first six months of 1999, up from last year's measly gain of 1.4%. That's almost double the return of the average diversified stock fund. Micro-caps are even beating out the Standard & Poor's 500 index. Micro- caps' relatively low price-to-earnings ratios have made them increasingly attractive. And they continue to be. Analysts say there is still plenty of value out there even though micros are back on the market...