Investor's Business Daily articles from January 2001

Investor's Business Daily archives from January 2001

The Economy.(A)
January 31, 2001... Late credit-card payments climb The rate of monthly payments past due 30 days or more rose in December to 4.91%from the year-ago level of 4.84%, said Moody's Investors Service. It was the first year-on-year rise in three years. The...

WASHINGTON.(A)
January 31, 2001... Bush would hike tax deductions for donations to nonprofit groups President Bush hopes to trigger billions of dollars in new donations. Bush's proposals are raising questions among some critics on church-state issues. His plan would...

WW.(A)
January 31, 2001... World Economic Forum closes as capitalists switch topics to faith A group of religious leaders, including the chief rabbi of Israel, Meir Lau, and the grand mufti of Bosnia, Mustafa Ceric, issued a statement calling on business and...

10SECRETS.(A)
January 31, 2001... If your New Year's resolutions are still just good intentions, try rearranging your life and environment to compel you to take the appropriate steps. Unsuccessful goal setters, failed dieters and workout-wannabes among them, typically...

Composer Frederic Chopin His Passion And Quest For Perfection Brought Joy To Listeners.(A)(Leaders & Success)
January 31, 2001... Byline: Sonja Carberry Investor's Business Daily Frederic Chopin's contemporaries thought the famed composer's failure to write an opera would prove the death knell of his artistic career. Chopin knew better. "I shall create a...

Basketball Player Larry Bird Grit And Discipline Helped Him Lead Championship Teams.(A)(Leaders & Success)
January 31, 2001... Byline: Paul Katzeff Investor's Business Daily Larry Bird was a high school sophomore when he discovered how he wanted to spend the rest of his life. He was recovering from a broken ankle. The injury kept him from playing...

Wisdom To Live By.(A)(Leaders & Success)
January 31, 2001... {TEXT} Wisdom To Live By . {TEXT} ON REACHING GOALS Nothing is as fatiguing as the continued hanging on of an uncompleted task. William James, psychologist The beginning is the most important part of the work. ...

Internet & Technology.(A)
January 31, 2001... Byline: Patrick Seitz Investor's Business Daily You see them on airplanes and in hotel lobbies - professionals looking busy with their Palm computers. But take a closer look. Those may not be appointmentschedules or memos they're...

Tech Bits.(A)(Internet & Technology)
January 31, 2001... Andreessen Says Slowdown Just What Start-Ups Needed The glass, it seems, can be half empty or half full, depending on your point ofview. Thus, it's a great time to be a start-up tech firm. That's what LoudCloud Inc. Chairman and...

SPEECH TECHNOLOGY No HALs In 2001, But Some Machines Are Talking.(A)(Internet & Technology)
January 31, 2001... Byline: Donna Howell Investor's Business Daily 'Open the pod bay doors, HAL." "I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that." Humans and computers conversed freely in the 1968 film "2001: A Space Odyssey."But this year the...

New Composite Rating Uncovers Top Stocks.(A)(Investor's Corner)
January 31, 2001... Byline: David Saito-Chung Investor's Business Daily On Thursday, this column stressed the value of scanning IBD's stock tables to find new winners. Today's debut of the Composite Rating will make that job easier. The 3,000 or so...

WIRELESS Nokia Makes Call: Growth Is Slowing For Handset Sales.(A)(Internet & Technology)
January 31, 2001... Byline: Peter Benesh Investor's Business Daily Cell-phone leader Nokia Corp. - the last manufacturer that seemed to enjoy smooth sailing - on Tuesday said it's caught in the same rough stretch of road as the rest of the industry. ...

D.(A)
January 31, 2001... IBD SmartSelectTM CORPORATE RATINGS: .Earnings Per Share Rating (fourth from right) measures each company's short- and long-term earnings growth. Results are from 1 to 99, with 99 being best. .Relative Price Strength Rating (third...

Intel, Nortel Veteran Tries Hand At Start-Up.(A)(Internet & Technology)
January 31, 2001... Byline: Mike Angell Investor's Business Daily In music, allegro means an upbeat, lively pace. That also describes the way Dave House talks about his new position at Allegro Networks Inc. The San Jose, Calif.-based start-up is no...

NETWORKING Despite Dot-Com Bust, Investors Support Network Buildup.(A)(Internet & Technology)
January 31, 2001... Byline: Antonio A. Prado Investor's Business Daily The tech stock wreck has made investors pickier with their money. So where's itflowing now? A lot of it's going to building network infrastructure. Even with most investors...

INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS EarthLink: Broadband Gains Aid Results; Dial-Up Is Flat.(A)(EARTHLINK)
January 31, 2001... NEW YORK (Reuters) - EarthLink Inc., the No. 2 U.S. Internet service provider, said on Tuesday its fourth-quarter loss widened less than expected due to an influx of high-speed, or broadband, Internet subscribers, but warned of little growth...

GATEWAY.(A)
January 31, 2001... NEW YORK (Reuters) - Personal computer maker Gateway Inc. on Tuesday said it had replaced its chief financial officer as part of a management shake-up amid sluggish PC sales and falling market share. Gateway on Monday said its co-founder...

Microsoft's Gates Upbeat On Appeal, Sees Economy Skirting Recession.(A)(MICROSOFT)
January 31, 2001... ROME (Reuters) - Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said on Tuesday he's optimistic the software giant's appeal against a U.S. District Court's antitrust ruling will be upheld and the case will end within a few months. Meeting with Italian...

Whether Up- Or Downloading, FTP Programs Can Ease Load.(A)(Computers Made Plain)
January 31, 2001... Byline: Lynn Walford Investor's Business Daily If you need to upload or download lots of files at once, it may be time to invest in a file transfer protocol program - often called an FTP client. An FTP client helps you move...

Cell-Phone Makers Calling On Anthropology For Design Help.(A)(QA)
January 31, 2001... Byline: Peter Benesh|| Investor's Business Daily Technology has a habit of running ahead of its intended customers. Visionary engineers can make futuristic products, but can't always make them easy to use or even comprehensible to...

Consumer Confidence Knifes Lower In Harsh Blow To Fast-Ending Boom.(A)(Company In The News)
January 31, 2001... By Donald H. Gold Investor's Business Daily One of the fastest slowdowns in recent decades seems to be picking up speed. Inthe latest sign of trouble for the 10-year-old economic expansion, consumer confidence fell to a four-year...

ESTERLINE TECHNOLOGIES CORP. /Bellevue, Washington Leaner Focus Puts Parts Maker In Good Shape.(A)(The New America)
January 31, 2001... Byline: Janet Purdy Levaux Investor's Business Daily Trimming fat from manufacturing operations often begins with admitting you havea problem in the first place. That's no sweat for Robert Cremin, president and chief executive...

KEITHLEY INSTRUMENTS INC. /Solon, Ohio Test Equipment Firm Defies Telecom Slump.(A)(The New America)
January 31, 2001... Byline: Amy Reeves Investor's Business Daily It's been a tough year for any company that's hitched its wagon to the telecommunications industry, what with the lowered forecasts and plummeting values afflicting some of the sector's...

SONIC CORP. /Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Restaurant Chain Fights Off Its Winter Blues.(A)(The New America)
January 31, 2001... Byline: Marilyn Alva Investor's Business Daily Clifford Hudson usually has a sunny disposition, as befits the chief executive of Sonic Corp., a carhop chain in the Sun Belt. But even the chain's tater totsand cherry limeades couldn't...

Calif. Gov. Orders More State Funds To Buy Electricity.(A)(CALPOWER)
January 31, 2001... From IBD News Services With California's $400 million emergency fund exhausted, Gov. Gray Davis ordered more state money be used to keep the lights on in power-strapped parts of the state. The governor would not say how much public...

Treasury Chief Sees 'Uniform' Agreement On Taxes Extent Of Cut Remains Key Issue As Budget Surplus Estimates Balloon Yet Again.(A)(ONEILL)
January 31, 2001... TEXTWASHINGTON (AP) - Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill said Tuesday he believes the Bush administration has close to "uniform agreement" with Congress on the need for an across-the-board tax cut. The size of the reduction is the major...

The Real Most Active - NYSE.(A)(The Real Most Active - NYSE)
January 31, 2001... The Real Most Active Blue chips soared Tuesday as investors waited for another interest-rate cut from the U.S. Federal Reserve. The Dow industrials took off in the afternoon, closing up 179.01 points, or 1.7%, at 10,881.20. The S&P...

Stocks In The News - NYSE.(A)
January 31, 2001... After making a fourfold move from late December 1999 to mid-September, Barr Laboratories has formed a 19-week base. It's 7% off its Sept. 14 high. The Pomona, N.Y.-based firm makes about 80 generic and proprietary drugs, including its...

The Big Picture.(A)(The Big Picture)
January 31, 2001... THE BIG PICTURE As the Fed debated its next interest-rate move Tuesday, the Dow industrials rallied while the Nasdaq sat still. Central bankers almost certainly will cut the fed funds rate Wednesday when they conclude their two-day...

What Boom Times? Record Number Of Mothers Working Disproves Rosy Talk.(A)(View Point)
January 31, 2001... By James P. Philbin Despite the claims of the media, financial press and spinmeisters from the two dominant and indistinguishable political parties, America's economic boom is largely a facade - that is, when it is evaluated outside the...

Dooley, Democrats' 'Blue Dog' Leader, Touts Focus On 'Pro-Growth' Policies.(A)(National Issue)
January 31, 2001... Byline: Douglas Austin Investor's Business Daily The even Senate split and narrow GOP House majority have given centrists new clout in Washington. One group looking to exploit that clout is the New Democrat Coalition. The...

IBD's Top 10.(A)(IBD's Top 10 1-5)
January 31, 2001... Consumers' Outlook Sinks - Worst Drop In 10 Years 1The Consumer Confidence Index dipped to 114.4 in January from December's 128.6. It was the fourth straight monthly drop, a four-year low and far worse than analysts expected. It was...

REFINERY SENSIBILITIES.(A)(Editorial)
January 31, 2001... It's a time-honored Washington response - name a task force to solve a problem.In this case, a Bush administration task force will look at the country's energy needs. It could start by looking at the burdens on the nation's oil and natural...

Editorial.(A)
January 31, 2001... By Alan C. Shapiro A key issue confronting the U.S. government is what do with the federal surplus. Various projections put the surplus at nearly $5 trillion over the next decade,with more than $2.5 trillion of that amount outside of...

Key Fund Holdings.(B)
January 31, 2001... Key Fund Holdings / Cytyc was a top new buy of Scudder 21st Century Growth Fundin the latest reporting period. The stock has been basing for 28 weeks since hitting a high of 70.44 on July 17. Cytyc is now trading at just 6% below that level....

Dec. Stock Fund Inflows Rose To $11.58 Bil For January, Fidelity and Vanguard report strong cash flows.(B)(Making Money In Mutuals)
January 31, 2001... Byline: Dan Moreau Investor's Business Daily Fidelity Investment and Vanguard Group, the two biggest fund groups, reported strong net cash flow to their funds in January. Both said investors were pumping money into stock, bond...

Top-Selling Funds Offer Safety To Investors Vanguard's index funds notched the best net inflows at year-end.(B)(Making Money In Mutuals)
January 31, 2001... Byline: Paul Katzeff Investor's Business Daily Skittish investors ran for cover last year. Especially toward year-end, broadlybased index funds were one of the main places they sought safety. As a result, Vanguard led the list...

The Real Most Active - NASDAQ.(B)(The Real Most Active - NASDAQ)
January 31, 2001... The Real Most Active The Nasdaq spent the bulk of Tuesday bobbing between positive and negative territory as it waited for the Fed's latest interest rate verdict. It finished the day almost exactly where it started, gaining just .01...

Stocks In The News - NASDAQ.(B)
January 31, 2001... Flextronics International is working on the right side of a steep 21-week base.It stands 11% short of its Sept. 6 high. Last week, Flextronics announced a deal with Ericsson in which Ericsson will outsource production of its mobile phones...

Beef Dips On Mad Cow Concerns; Wheat Moves Up; Crude Is Steady.(B)(FUTURES)
January 31, 2001... By Reuters Cattle futures slumped Tuesday amid concerns that the intensifying media spotlight on "mad cow" disease could reduce beef consumption, while wheat recovered marginally from Monday's slide. F U T U R E S In other...

Consumer Malaise Boosts Bonds As Fed Convenes In Washington.(B)(Credit Markets)
January 31, 2001... By Reuters U.S. Treasuries shot higher on Tuesday after a key gauge of consumer confidencecrumbled to a four-year low in January, bolstering the case for an aggressive Federal Reserve interest rate cut this week. The Conference...

IBD's Top 10.(A)(IBD's Top 10 6-10)
January 31, 2001... Surplus Estimate Up Again, Boosting Tax-Cutting Case 6The Congressional Budget Office forecast a budget surplus of $5.61 trillion from 2002 to 2011. In October, the CBO forecast a $4.56 trillion, 10-year surplus. Meanwhile, Treasury...

Business News.(A)(After The Close)
January 31, 2001... APPLIED MATERIALS warned its first-quarter profit would miss estimates. Sales are expected to drop 7%-10% below guidance. PEOPLESOFT earned 13 cents in the fourth quarter, up 225% and 4 cents over views. Sales rose 34% to $498 million on...

Business News.(A)(Business News)
January 31, 2001... Biovail drug staves off generics Biovail's top-selling hypertension and angina treatment, Tiazac, will be listedin the FDA's "Orange Book." That could fend off generic rivals by 30 months. Biovail's shares jumped 4.11, or 10%, to 44.33....

Business News.(A)(Business News)
January 31, 2001... Stock fund inflows bounce back to $11.58 bil in Dec., ICI reports As the market struggled to find a bottom, investors doubled their purchases of stock funds from November's below-average $5.52 billion. For the year, stock fund...

Business News.(A)(Business News)
January 31, 2001... P&G's qtr net rises as sales fall, cuts fiscal 2001 revenue estimate The household products maker's second-quarter earnings rose 6% to 93 cents a share. That edged views by a penny. Higher prices, tax gains and the sale of the...

WASHINGTON.(A)
January 30, 2001... Bush won't seek to annul pardons handed down by his predecessor President Bush said he was troubled by the pardon that his predecessor granted fugitive financier Marc Rich, but said he has decided not to attempt to revoke it. "He was...

WW.(A)
January 30, 2001... Barak rules out any contacts with Arafat before Israel's vote Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak also accused Palestinian leader Yasser Arafatof unleashing an "attack of lies" against Israel. An Israeli motorist was killed by gunfire on a...

Bush Taps Cheney To Head Task Force On Electricity Crisis.(A)(CALPOWER)
January 30, 2001... WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Concerned California's energy crisis is spreading, President George W. Bush named Vice President Dick Cheney to head a federal task force seeking ways to cope with high energy prices and reliance on foreignoil. ...

Fed Policy-Makers Have Lots To Study At Meeting With Growth At Or Near Zero, Many Expect A Half-Point Rate Cut This Week.(A)(FED)
January 30, 2001... NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wall Street expects the U.S. Federal Reserve will slash interest rates this week by a sharp half point for the second time this month as it presses ahead with an aggressive campaign to stave off a recession. The Fed...

10SECRETS.(A)
January 30, 2001... Think of a Volvo, and you think safety. Versace? Quality and style. The Lifetime cable network? "TV for women." The reason: All are marketed with consistent messages. Over time, the messages have been linked to those products and...

Football Player Bronislaw 'Bronko' Nagurski His Dedication To Excellence Put Him At The Top Of The Heap.(A)(Leaders & Success)
January 30, 2001... Byline: Michael Richman Investor's Business Daily When Bronko Nagurski was at work, his only goal was to do what he did best - play football. That total focus made him one of the greatest players ever. He starred for the Chicago...

Monaco Coach's Kay Toolson Persistence Helped His Firm Roll To The Top.(A)(Leaders & Success)
January 30, 2001... Byline: Ken Hoover Investor's Business Daily When most people looked at Monaco Coach 15 years ago, they saw a bankrupt makerof recreational vehicles. The company had been badly run. The coaches had serious warranty problems that...

Wisdom To Live By.(A)(Leaders & Success)
January 30, 2001... {TEXT} Wisdom To Live By . {TEXT} ON ATTITUDE No one can defeat us unless we first defeat ourselves. President Dwight Eisenhower Great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed. Vincent...

Internet & Technology.(A)
January 30, 2001... Byline: Pete Barlas Investor's Business Daily Armed with a new software product, IBM Corp. is styling itself as the anti-Napster. It says it's developed a simple way to keep consumers from downloading music from the Internet...

Tech Bits.(A)(Internet & Technology)
January 30, 2001... Linus Torvalds' Web Site In Search Of A Theme Linus Torvalds invented the Linux computer operating software. It competes withMicrosoft Corp.'s Windows software and with various versions of Unix. But Linux is available for free...

Timing Is The Key To Profitable Stock Trades.(A)(Investor's Corner)
January 30, 2001... Byline: Christina Wise Investor's Business Daily With most things in life, you get what you pay for. Never is that more true than in the stock market. If you go bargain-hunting as a stock slips into a correction, you may indeed...

LEGAL ISSUES AND TECHNOLOGY Critics Fear That Video Games Can Teach Kids To Kill.(A)(Internet & Technology)
January 30, 2001... Byline: David Isaac Investor's Business Daily Violent video games reward players for killing, says Lt. Col. David Grossman, aretired West Point psychology professor and co-author of the book "Stop Teaching Our Kids To Kill." He...

B2B E-COMMERCE Ariba Getting Agile To Tackle Larger Business Markets.(A)(Internet & Technology)
January 30, 2001... Byline: Murray Coleman and J. Bonasia Investor's Business Daily In the fast-changing world of software, what you've done in the past rarely carries as much weight as what's coming around the next bend. One of the leading...

TELECOM AND WIRELESS Cisco Warns Current Quarter Tougher Than Thought.(A)(CISCO)
January 30, 2001... DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - Cisco says the current fiscal quarter looks morechallenging than a few weeks ago, but the longer-term outlook has improved. The networking leader is being hit by reduced investments from its main customers...

Disney Closes Go.com, To Buy Tracking Stock As Portal Fails To Fly.(A)(DISNEY)
January 30, 2001... LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Walt Disney Co. said on Monday it will close its struggling Internet portal Go.com, laying off about 400 and taking a second-quarter charge for the overhaul of its Web operations. Joining other media giants that...

Palm Presses Case For 'Useful' Hand-Helds.(A)(Internet & Technology)
January 30, 2001... Byline: Patrick Seitz Investor's Business Daily Even as competition has heated up in the hand-held device business, Palm Inc. has kept its lead in that market. Chief Executive Carl Yankowski credits the company's success to its...

WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS Drivers' Nondriving Options Rising At A Dangerous Pace.(A)(Internet & Technology)
January 30, 2001... Byline: Sarah Z. Sleeper Investor's Business Daily Drivers could become the next fatality of the Internet economy. These days, more and more cars come with services ranging from global positioning systems to 911 emergency...

COMPUTERS Customer Support Advances Include More Free, Pay Options.(A)(Computers Made Plain)
January 30, 2001... Byline: Julie Mitchell Investor's Business Daily Anyone who uses a computer knows how frustrating technical problems can be. From screen freezes to full-on crashes, time and money are lost trying to fix the bugs that plague even...

FOURTH-QUARTER EARNINGS Big Loss Reinforces Importance Of Xerox's Latest Restructuring.(A)(TEK3RT)
January 30, 2001... Byline: Brian Deagon Investor's Business Daily Xerox Corp. continues to feel the repercussions of several botched restructurings, as shown Monday by its fourth-quarter results. Revenue fell 13% from a year ago to $4.8 billion,...

PRIORITY HEALTHCARE CORP. /Lake Mary, Florida Specialty Drug Firm Puts Priority On Diversity.(A)(The New America)
January 30, 2001... Byline: Alan R. Elliott Investor's Business Daily Drugmakers make money by making people healthy. Biotechnology research has rendered them more potent in both areas. Biotech helped create an industry that can address more...

Business News.(A)(Company In The News)
January 30, 2001... By Jonah Keri Investor's Business Daily In a service-driven business like the airline industry, keeping your employees on board is a must. Happy employees equal happy customers equal happy shareholders. Put yourself in the shoes...

BURLINGTON COAT FACTORY /Burlington, New Jersey Cold Winter Heats Up Coat Sales For Retailer.(A)(The New America)
January 30, 2001... Byline: Robin M. Grugal Investor's Business Daily Today's Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse Corp. might be "more than great coats," as its slogan insists. But with this season's cold snap, it is the "coat" in Burlington's name that...

SUNRISE ASSISTED LIVING INC. /McLean, Virginia Home Operator Emphasizes Personal Touch.(A)(The New America)
January 30, 2001... Byline: Gloria Lau Investor's Business Daily Elderly parents might know their children love them and want them nearby, but that doesn't stop many from refusing to move in with their offspring. Instead, these seniors opt to stay...

Bush Plan To Help Seniors Buy Drugs To Cost $48 Billion.(A)(BUSHDRUGS)
January 30, 2001... WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush on Monday sent Congress a four-year, $48 billion plan to help poor seniors pay for medication, saying he was willing to see the proposal folded into broader reform of the Medicare program. Democrats...

Easy Ways To Take Edge Off Post-Lunch Slump.(A)(News For You)
January 30, 2001... Byline: Lia Haberman Investor's Business Daily It's so regular you can almost set your watch to it: the post-lunch slump that leaves you feeling drowsy and turns the simplest tasks into strenuous ordeals. It seems to hit most...

The Real Most Active - NYSE.(A)(The Real Most Active - NYSE)
January 30, 2001... The Real Most Active On the first day of decimal trading, blue chips rallied higher Monday. The Dow industrials slid in the morning hours but gained steam, closing up 42.21 points, or 0.4%, to 10,702.19. The S&P 500 gained 0.7% to...

Stocks In The News - NYSE.(A)
January 30, 2001... After clearing a four-month base in July, Celestica moved as high as 87. It's now working on the right side of a 20-week base. It stands 16% off its high. The Toronto-based contract maker of electronic gear provides its products to Cisco...

The Big Picture.(A)(The Big Picture)
January 30, 2001... THE BIG PICTURE Nasdaq stocks, chumps of last year's vicious correction, acted like champions Monday, although trading was quiet. In an encore of Friday's performance, the Nasdaq fell hard at the opening, sinking nearly 1%. But the...

The Last Dirty Word: Dershowitz Claims Jesus Must Not Be In The Public Square.(A)(View Point)
January 30, 2001... By Michael Medved After decades of ceaselessly pushing the boundaries of free expression, the American left has finally found a word that requires censorship. That word is "Jesus," and leaders of the liberal establishment declare...

Even With Campaign Finance Reform, Will Status Quo Really Be Changed?(A)(National Issue)
January 30, 2001... Byline: Sean Higgins Investor's Business Daily If Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., were a football coach, he'd favor the "wear 'em down" offense: Just keep running the ball until you score. He's been doing just that with campaign...

GEPHARDT'S FLIP-FLOP.(A)(Editorial)
January 30, 2001... Should anyone believe Dick Gephardt anymore? Not when it comes to tax policy. His vacillation shows why he's about politics, not principle. On ABC's "This Week," Gephardt called the Reagan tax cut "a mistake that we don't need to repeat...

IBD's Top 10.(A)(IBD's Top 10 1-5)
January 30, 2001... Chrysler Cuts 26,000 Jobs, Sees 2001 As Losing Year 1DaimlerChrysler will slash 20% of the work force at its ailing U.S. unit over the next three years. The German automaker said 75% of the cuts will come this year. Six Chrysler...

WELCOME INTRODUCTION OF FAITH.(A)(Editorial)
January 30, 2001... Two wire story headlines, coming across the screen minutes apart, perform an unintended service. The first, from Washington: "Bush Unveiling Religious-BasedPlan." The second, from India: "Faith Keeps Quake Survivor Alive." A connection? Well,...

Key Fund Holdings.(B)
January 30, 2001... Key Fund Holdings / Sanmina was a top new buy of Alger Balanced Fund as of its latest reporting period. The stock has been basing since September. By Dec. 20,it had fallen 50% from its peak, but it's since rebounded to 21% below its oldhigh....

Fund Firms' Profits Up, Despite Down Market Advisory fees, market strategy, products are key for the strongest firms.(B)(Making Money In Mutuals)
January 30, 2001... Byline: Claire Mencke Investor's Business Daily Companies that manage your investments had hurdles to overcome in the latest quarter as stock markets remained soft. But some of these firms did a better job than others. The...

Thornburg's Fries Has Broad View Of Value His A-rated fund, up 4% last year, has room for growth companies.(B)(Making Money In Mutuals)
January 30, 2001... Byline: Tom Gray Investor's Business Daily What's in a label? Some confusion, maybe, in the case of Thornburg Value Fund. This $1.6 billion portfolio doesn't quite hew to the conventions of "value" investing, such as sticking...

The Real Most Active - NASDAQ.(B)(The Real Most Active - NASDAQ)
January 30, 2001... The Real Most Active Hope that the Fed will lop another half-point off interest rates helped fuel the Nasdaq's 2.05% rise Monday. Despite a rough morning of Cisco-inspired growth worries, the tech-laden index managed to add 57.04...

Stocks In The News - NASDAQ.(B)
January 30, 2001... Cabot Microelectronics broke out of a five-month base on Jan. 11, but after taking a few steps north it stumbled. By Monday, it had recovered sufficiently to notch a new closing high. The company, which is a spin-off of chemical company...