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Ariba's Very Public Battle Belies Size Of Its Market.
July 12, 2000... Byline: Murray Coleman, Investor's Daily When they started up a few years ago, Ariba Inc. and Commerce One Inc. were battling just to be recognized. Today the pair are two of Wall Street's best-known names in business-to-business...

Artist G. Harvey Jones - High Standards And Heeding Others Have Made His Work Well Known.
July 12, 2000... Byline: Brian Mitchell, Investor's Daily Gerald Harvey Jones had a problem in the late 1970s: He wasn't getting paid. His paintings were selling, but the gallery selling them wasn't sending him hisshare. A mild-mannered, church-going...

Application Service Provider Aims To Dominate Midwest.
July 12, 2000... Byline: Jed Graham, Investor's Daily If funding of young Internet companies has dried up, the group of companies referred to as application service providers, or ASPs, has yet to notice. Thesecompanies host mainstream software...

EXECUTIVE PROFILE - IBM's Perna: Driven In Software, Tennis.
July 12, 2000... Byline: Doug Tsuruoka, Investor's Daily For Janet Perna, one of IBM Corp.'s top women managers, winning boils down totwo things: speed and intelligence. The one-time college tennis star learned that more than 25 years ago, trading volleys...

Treasuries Dip After Greenspan Provides No Trading Incentives.
July 12, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily By Reuters U.S. Treasury prices dipped in lackluster trading on Tuesday, reversing an earlier whimper of a push higher after a speech by Federal ReserveChairman Alan Greenspan offered nothing hawkish on...

INTERNET - America Online Starts Service In Mexico.
July 12, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily America Online Inc. began offering services in Mexico on Tuesday in the company's second Latin American launch ahead of a planned Wall Street initial public offering of shares in its regional company, AOL...

House Backs Bill To Clear Up Taxes On Cell Phone Use.
July 12, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily A bill to clear up the confusing patchwork of taxes now assessed on cellular phone calls cleared the House Tuesday. It would modify the existing system so that wireless users would be taxed only in the...

Company In The News.
July 12, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily The Freedom Forum's museum of news will more than double in size and relocate to downtown Washington as anchor of a $ 250 million retail, residential and conference center development, according to plans...

Honeywell Lowers Long-Term EPS Estimates Amid Post-Merger, Oil-Price And Euro Woes.
July 11, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily Honeywell Scales Back Earning Growth Outlook NEW YORK (Reuters) - Honeywell International Inc. on Monday cut its earnings growth forecast for the foreseeable future and said it would sell businesses and...

Rebound Seen In 2nd-Qtr Net For Motorola.
July 11, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily Motorola Net Seen Nearly Doubling CHICAGO (Reuters) - Motorola Inc. is expected this week to report that its 2000 second-quarter profits nearly doubled from a year ago amid improved handset unit sales. All...

Get PC With DSL: SBC, Compaq Set $ 60/Month Service.
July 11, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily Compaq, 2 Phone Firms Giving Away Computers With DSL HOUSTON (AP) - Compaq Computer is teaming with Pacific Bell and Southwestern Bell to offer its personal computers as part of a high-speed Internet package....

Congress Mulls Medicare Expansion - Cover Prescription-Drug Expenses But experts warn that low-ball estimates will lead to price controls a real threat to R&D.
July 11, 2000... Byline: Benjamin Kepple, Investor's Daily There's good news for Medicare recipients who find prescription drugs painfully expensive: Both Democrats and Republicans have plans to make them cheaper. The bad news is that those plans could...

Door To North Korea Is Poised To Open.
July 11, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily By Janet Purdy Levaux With missile talks between the U.S. and North Korea setfor next month, relations between the two countries may take a big leap forward. Those talks could build on the momentum achieved at...

Clinton Plans A Heating Oil Reserve; Oil Lower As Saudi Plan Catches On.
July 11, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily From IBD News Services WASHINGTON - President Clinton on Monday established ahome-heating-oil reserve for the Northeast, where fuel shortages put a squeezeon residents trying to stay warm during last winter's...

Novartis Shakes Up Drug Division In Effort To Spark Revenue Gains.
July 11, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily BASEL, Switzerland (Reuters) - Novartis named a new global head of its flagship pharmaceutical business in a reorganization on Monday that it said aims to drive sales growth. Thomas Ebeling, former head of...

IPO Of EU Defense Firm EADS Gets Poor Welcome On 3 Bourses.
July 11, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily Shares in newly formed European aerospace giant EADS had an unspectacular debut on the Paris; Frankfurt, Germany; and Madrid, Spain stock exchanges on Monday as investors took a cautious approach to the 3...

What's Behind Israel's Lure To Venture Capital.
July 11, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily Israel: Land Of Milk, Honey, Internet Start-ups mvsTEL AVIV, Israel (AP) - Yossi Vardi leans dangerously far back in his chair amid foot-high piles of paper, a bust of Zionism founder Theodor Herzl and a...

Bad Burmese Days: Ruling Junta Wreaks Havoc In A Forgotten War.
July 11, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily By Doug Bandow It wasn't much by Western standards: a clearing in the dense foliage with a half-dozen wood and bamboo buildings covered by thatched roofs. A short walk along the dirt path led to more houses,...

Slavery, Rape, Persecution Continue In Sudan's Little Noticed Holy War.
July 11, 2000... Byline: Brian Mitchell, Investor's Daily Ezekiel Gatkuoth was a bright boy. He was the first in his family to finish school, and the first to attend college. But he only got as far as fourth gradein his native Sudan. To go much further,...

ANSWERING THE NAYSAYERS.
July 11, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily Along with the usual Republican backers, missile defense got a boost from thelikes of Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., and The Washington Post. They quite rightly point out that failures are normal in...

KEEPING AN EYE ON CHINA.
July 11, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily China has increased its shipments of specialty steels, guidance systems and technical expertise to Pakistan. Chinese experts have also been found in Pakistan's newest missile plant, itself a copy of a Chinese...

Federated Investors' Chris Donahue - Zest For Clear Communication Keeps His Company Growing.
July 11, 2000... Byline: Vance Cariaga, Investor's Daily Chris Donahue, president and chief executive of Pittsburgh-based Federated Investors Inc. and a partisan of the Pittsburgh Steelers, says he once refused to hire someone for being a Cleveland Browns...

Growth Funds Let Income Outpace Inflation - You Can Increase Yearly Withdrawals To Offset Dollar's Erosion.
July 11, 2000... Byline: Nancy Gondo, Investor's Daily Investor's Business Daily Second of three parts Everyone faces retirement sooner or later, so it's never too early to start thinking about what sort of lifestyle you plan on living once you've earned...

WesMark Growth Gets A Jolt From Energy - Cutting Back On Tech, Focusing On Energy Boosts Performance.
July 11, 2000... Byline: Nancy Gondo, Investor's Daily Unlike many mutual fund managers who pick stocks using a bottom-up strategy, WesMark Growth's Jerry Schmitt and David Ellwood like to focus on the top-down view. Looking at the big picture led them to...

Oil Falls On Supply, Gov't Sale; Brazil Frost Outlook Lifts Coffee.
July 11, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily By The Associated Press Crude oil prices fell again on Monday in anticipationof an increase in world supplies and in reaction to a plan of the federal government to release oil into the market from its...

Bonds Skid As Skittish Investors Eye Corporate Bond Sales Ahead.
July 11, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily By Reuters U.S. Treasuries skidded on Monday as investors sold government paper ahead of a deluge of corporate bond sales triggered by jobs data hinting the Federal Reserve may not have to raise interest...

Web MBAs Offer Alternative To Busy Execs.
July 11, 2000... Byline: Tim Haddock, Investor's Daily In today's business world, an advanced degree seems like the only ticket out of middle management. But with a mortgage and two kids, taking a sabbatical to attend traditional graduate school is...

Look For New Crop Of Leaders In New Rally.
July 11, 2000... Byline: Christina Wise, Investor's Daily Loyalty is commendable when deciding many of life's choices. But don't stick by a beaten-up stock just because it was once a champion. Growth investors strive to jump aboard the leading stocks. But...

Computers Made Plain - When Checking Network Security, Can You Hire Hacker Think Tank?
July 11, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily By Paul Korzeniowski Every year, companies spend billions of dollars trying to secure their computer systems from hacker attacks. Now hackers themselves want a piece of that action. In January, AtStake Inc.,...

Barak Beats No-Confidence Vote, But Is Weakened Before Summit.
July 11, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily Barak Survives No-Confidence Vote, Heads For Summit JERUSALEM (AP) - With hiscoalition in tatters ahead of a last-ditch peace summit, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak survived a no-confidence vote Monday...

Pillsbury May Be Sold Piecemeal By Britain's Diageo, Analysts Say.
July 11, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily Pillsbury Seen Being Sold Piecemeal Than As Whole CHICAGO (Reuters) - If Diageo PLC tries to sell its diversified food business Pillsbury, as a London newspaper reported Sunday, the unit's product mix ranging...

Attorneys Ask For $ 196 Billion In Landmark Fla.Tobacco Suit.
July 11, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily Smokers' Attorney Asks For Up To $ 196 Bil MIAMI (AP) - Smokers in a landmarkcase asked for up to $ 196 billion in punitive damages from the tobacco industry Monday to punish it for ruining the lives of...

It's Finally Time For Divine IPO; Investors Wary - Despite its unfortunate timing and lack of any track record, the Internet incubator faces pressure to go public in July.
July 11, 2000... Byline: Jed Graham, Investor's Daily Ever since tech investors started to get cold feet in March, Divine InterVentures Inc., a Lisle, Ill.-based Internet incubator, has been on the strictest of diets - trying to fit into its gown for its...

Start-Up Touts Small Size Of New Fiber-Optic Gear.
July 11, 2000... Byline: Mike Angell, Investor's Daily Fiber-optic networking start-up Cyras Systems Inc. considers its rivals dinosaurs. And it sees its K2 product as the meteor that could wipe them out. Cyras claims the K2 combines in one box many of...

Cyras Aims To Be The Latest Successful Fiberlane Offshoot.
July 11, 2000... Byline: Mike Angell, Investor's Daily Call it the triple-threat of fiber optics. In 1998, Fiberlane Communications was broken into three parts because of disagreements over the company's direction. One part became Cerent Corp., which...

WIRELESS - Chase Manhattan Provides Handy Data.
July 11, 2000... Byline: Jed Graham, Investor's Daily The global financial markets don't stop moving just because you're fast asleep, stuck in traffic or at a fancy dinner party. The death of a world leader, the default of a financial institution or a...

SEMICONDUCTORS - As Chips Go Mainstream, Makers Flourish.
July 11, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily From their perch at the top of the semiconductor production chain, microchip makers are feeling a sea change come over the business, as silicon moves beyondcomputers and permeates daily life. Executives at...

Unlikely Anti-Virus Contender Walks Quietly, Carries Big Stick.
July 10, 2000... Byline: Donna Howell, Investor's Daily Trend Micro Inc. isn't small. The Tokyo-based company is a top seller of anti-virus products in Japan and is a contender in the U.S. But it's a quiet giant. Its better-known rivals are Symantec Corp....

TECH LABOR - Temp Workers Need To Be Treated As Such.
July 10, 2000... Byline: Donna Howell, Investor's Daily Tech companies trying to stay streamlined are using contract workers more often. But they risk problems with labor law if those temporary workers are treated like regular employees, yet don't get...

OPERATING SYSTEMS - Low-Cost Linux Roils The Server Market.
July 10, 2000... Byline: David Noack, Investor's Daily Stormy. That's the forecast for the thriving server market, with increased competition being fueled by Linux, an upstart operating system that offers low-cost alternatives to more established systems....

Microsoft Revamps Deal For Telewest Due To EU.
July 10, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily BRUSSELS, Belgium (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. agreed on Friday to revamp a deal to buy a stake in British cable company Telewest Communications PLC, allowing the plan to avoid further scrutiny from the...

Qualcomm's CDMA2000 Seems Out In South Korea.
July 10, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily South Korea's three major telecom service providers are not in favor of Qualcomm's CDMA2000 system for third-generation mobile services, company officials said on Friday. But the decision on which standard...

U.S. Bans Web Cameras At All National Parks.
July 10, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) - The National Park Service banned new Web cameras at all parks and ordered Yellowstone to drop plans to show corporate sponsors on its Internet site. Advertising is not...

Today's Tech-Knowledge Economy Provides For-Profit Schools An Edge - They're training techies and offering courses to the many workers who aim to boost their careers.
July 10, 2000... Byline: Amy Reeves, Investor's Daily You've seen the ads on TV, those earnest endorsements from grads of the DeVryInstitutes or the University of Phoenix, describing how going to one of these for-profit schools changed their lives. Ivy...

Saudis Won't Be The Only OPEC Nation To Boost Crude Oil Output 'Very Soon'.
July 10, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily Extra Oil To Arrive 'Very Soon' DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - An extra 500,000 barrels of oil promised by Saudi Arabia only days ago is coming to the market soon, a Gulf oil official said Friday. The...

Treasuries End Higher On News Of Modest Job Growth In June.
July 10, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily U.S. Treasuries climbed on Friday after a lackluster June employment report was seen as decreasing the likelihood that the Federal Reserve would raise interest rates at its August policy meeting. The markets...

America Could Lose Key Ally If U.K. Accepts Euro; Will Britain Bite?
July 10, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily By Nicholas Herbert 'France does not know it, but we are at war with America," former French President Francois Mitterand once said. "Yes, a permanent war, a vital war, an economic war, a war without death....

Annual Budget Fight Will Come Early As GOP, Clinton Differ Over Surplus.
July 10, 2000... Byline: Peter Cleary, Investor's Daily Now that Congress has had a week off for fireworks and parades, its members are set to speed through the federal spending bills before the national political conventions begin. They hope that by...

OF SUMMITS AND LEGACIES.
July 10, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily Even the mainstream media have been calling this summit an effort by Clinton to polish his legacy. But should that be the basis for sure-footed foreign policy? As we've noted before, much of this...

Your Growth Funds Can Be Used For Income - Balance Can Build Over Time Despite Steady Withdrawals.
July 10, 2000... Byline: Nancy Gondo, Investor's Daily Investor's Business Daily First of three parts This year's shaky market mightmake you want to run for cover from falling stocks. But if you own shares of agrowth fund with a solid long-term track...

Bogle Says Fund Industry Must Change Or Die - Vanguard Founder Sees Challenges From Stocks And ETFs.
July 10, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily By Paul Katzeff Leading fund industry figures offered their insights at last month's Morningstar Investment Conference in Chicago. One of the more popular presentations was by John Bogle, founder of the...

Coffee Slumps To Six-Year Low; Cotton Climbs On Export Report.
July 10, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily Coffee prices plummeted to a six-year low Friday on New York's Coffee, Sugar & Cocoa Exchange amid growing uneasiness that good crop weather in Brazil will dump even more beans on an already glutted market....

Planning Is Key For Delicious Camping Food.
July 10, 2000... Byline: Lia Haberman, Investor's Daily If only one of the cast members of ABC's "Survivor" had brought a package of crackers, the island castaways might have been able to avoid dining on grubs and rats. But there's no need to rough it or...

Saucer Sightings Drop Off In Volatile Market.
July 10, 2000... Byline: Ed Carson, Investor's Daily Growth investors keep their eyes peeled for the bullish cup-with-handle base.But don't forget its lesser-known cousin, the saucer-with-handle. The saucer base closely resembles the cup-with-handle. But...

Mathematician Ada Byron King Lovelace - Her Passion Helped Her Become A Pioneer In Computer Programming.
July 10, 2000... Byline: Donna Howell, Investor's Daily Because she was a woman, Augusta Ada Byron King, Countess of Lovelace, wasn'tallowed into the Royal Society library. But she wasn't about to let that stop her from thinking. The daughter of the poet...

Jazz Trumpeter Louis Armstrong - Love For Music Spurred Lifelong Dedication To Jazz.
July 10, 2000... Byline: J. Barnes, Investor's Daily The producers wanted him to get up on stage and play his solos. But Louis Armstrong, a member of a 15-piece pit orchestra at the Vendome Theater in Chicago in the 1920s, didn't like the idea. He didn't...

Computers Made Plain - Unhappy With Microsoft, Netscape? Browse Through These Alternatives.
July 10, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily By Russell Shaw If your World Wide Web browser loads slowly, crashes often, hogs all of your computer's available memory and occupies too much space on your hard drive, you might want to consider an...

Without Sprint, - Can WorldCom Do? The phone giant could now look overseas for wireless companies, but it may have to spin off some units first.
July 10, 2000... Byline: Reinhardt Krause, Investor's Daily Bernie Ebbers, meet Humpty Dumpty. Ebbers, the tall, lanky chief executive ofphone company WorldCom Inc., doesn't look much like the egg-shaped nursery rhyme character. But will they share the...

Demand For Chips Fuels Gear Makers' Banner Year.
July 10, 2000... Byline: James DeTar, Investor's Daily Riding on the coattails of a hot semiconductor industry, the chip equipment market is poised for one of its best years ever. Makers of chip gear open theirannual Semicon trade show in San Francisco on...

'Bikini Bandits' Hijack Web! Entertainment's New Frontier.
July 7, 2000... Byline: Patrick Seitz, Investor's Daily AtomFilms hopes to succeed where others have failed in the business of providing original short films on the Web by focusing on distributing those same movies offline. The Seattle-based company gets...

AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGY - Forget Electric Hydrogen Is Cars' Future.
July 7, 2000... Byline: Paul A. Eisenstein, Investor's Daily When Olympic athletes hit the track for their marathon run around Sydney, Australia, later this summer, they'll be paced by an Opel Zafira, a microvan sold by the General Motors Corp. unit in...

SEMICONDUCTORS - Japan's Chipmakers Plan Record Spending.
July 7, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily Japan's top semiconductor makers are planning record investment to boost output capacity this year, amid a shortage of chips for cell phones and expected strong growth driven by an information technology...

Amtrak Rolls Out Service Guarantee, New Logo - National Railway To Compensate Riders Unhappy With Its Service.
July 7, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily Amtrak introduced a new logo and a new commitment to customer satisfaction Thursday, promising to compensate riders unhappy with their experience on America's national railway. Amtrak passengers who believe...

Retailers Report Disappointing June Sales.
July 7, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily Retailers Report Disappointing June Sales, Hurt By Weather, Gas Prices NEW YORK (AP) - Soaring gas prices and some unseasonably cool weather dampened Americans' desire to shop in June, leaving many of the...

Factory Orders Shot Ahead In May As The Labor Market Tightened Up - The economy isn't cooling off as much as had been thought. Fed may have more rate hikes in store.
July 7, 2000... Byline: Charles Oliver, Investor's Daily Just when it looked like the U.S. economy was headed for the fabled soft landing, two new reports showed that there's still life in the old girl. New orders to American factories shot up 4.1% in...

GM's Ron Zarrella On Sagging Market Share.
July 7, 2000... Byline: Paul A. Eisenstein, Investor's Daily Few men have created more of a stir in the auto industry in recent years thanRon Zarrella. The president of General Motors Corp.'s North American Operations came to Detroit more than five years...

Bonds Finish Lower As Market Waits For June Jobless Figures.
July 7, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily By Reuters U.S. Treasuries broke a rally of nearly two weeks Thursday, closing lower on concerns about upcoming June employment data, due out Friday. The data could bolster or undermine hopes of an economic...

Fact Slays Theory: Social Security Seers Ignore Past And Distort Future.
July 7, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily By Andrew G. Biggs Would you invest in an economy growing just 1.7% annually?That's the question opponents of Social Security privatization are asking, since Social Security's trustees assume the economy will...

As More Children Are Going To Jail, Experts Ask If Approach Is Justified.
July 7, 2000... Byline: Benjamin Kepple, Investor's Daily Maggie Elvey's ordeal began in 1993. That's when two teen-age thugs attacked her husband, Ross, in his Vista, Calif., gun store, beat him with a lead pipe and ran off with several handguns. One...

PREDESTINED NEWS COVERAGE.
July 7, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily If the test is a failure, the media will carry the story on Page 1 with blaring headlines. If the test is a success, the story will be buried on the inside pages. What little appears will cite sources...

THE ABASEMENT OF NEWSPAPERS.
July 7, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily HOW NEWSPAPERS ABASE THEMSELVES But two prominent newspapers' editorial positions got us wondering just how, well, gutless their judgments can get. A week ago The New York Times, newspaperdom's grande dame,...

NYSE And Nasdaq Are Preparing For Decimal Stock Pricing.
July 7, 2000... Byline: Paul Katzeff, Investor's Daily Big Boys Must Catch Up Now ThatOne ECN Has Switched To Dollars And Cents The on-again, off-again march towards decimalization by the stock markets is on again. The New York Stock Exchange will start...

SECOND QUARTER - Stock Funds' 3.15% Drop In The Period Brought Year's Figures Back To Normal.
July 7, 2000... Byline: Peter McKenna, Investor's Daily A stiff Nasdaq collapse, the continuing fear of higher interest rates and ebbing investor confidence held fund performance in check during the second quarter. The 4,806 U.S. diversified stock funds...

American Century's Fogle RestoresVista To Health.
July 7, 2000... Byline: Dan Moreau, Investor's Daily American Century Vista Fund's Glenn Fogle Takes Mid-Caps To Solid Gains American Century Vista Fund took some expensive leaps into tech stocks several years ago and ended up apologizing to...

Health/Biotech Funds Lead Quarter As Tech Stalls Out.
July 7, 2000... Byline: Ken Hoover, Investor's Daily Everybody knows you can make a lot of money investing in technology stocks. After all, we are in the middle of one of the most important tech revolutions in history. Hundreds of new companies are...

Overseas Funds Got Whacked In Quarter.
July 7, 2000... Byline: Nancy Gondo, Investor's Daily Shareholders are probably hoping the third quarter will breathe some life into their equity funds. Unless you were invested in a health care, natural resources or real estate fund, there's a good...

Some Funds Show All To Their Shareholders.
July 7, 2000... Byline: Ken Hoover, Investor's Daily This is a story about naked mutual funds. But don't get excited. It's rated G. Naked mutual funds post their trades on their Web sites, letting everybody in on what the fund is buying and selling as...

Emerging Markets, Some High-Yields Led Bond Funds In Qtr.
July 7, 2000... Byline: Claire Mencke, Investor's Daily Bargain-loving bond fund managers were the biggest gainers in the second quarter and the first half. And that means emerging markets and some high-yieldbond funds were the top performers for those...

Nicholas-Applegate Funds Buys Internet, Chip Stocks.
July 7, 2000... Byline: Leo Fasciocco, Investor's Daily Among Nicholas-Applegate Mutual Funds' biggest buys in its latest reporting period were semiconductor stocks like Applied Micro Circuits and LSI Logic. Thegroup's fund managers also were...

Tax Breaks Cushion The Cost Of Elder Care - Deductible Medical Costs Include Some Long-Term Care Insurance.
July 7, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily By Grace W. Weinstein Elder care services, which range from at-home care to nursing homes, are expensive. Whether you are paying for yourself or helping aging parents, tax breaks can cushion the impact. The...

Crude Oil Dips Back Under $ 30; Soybeans Crash To One-Year Low.
July 7, 2000... Byline: By, Investor's Daily Crude oil prices spiraled back below $ 30 a barrel Thursday as the market braced for a potentially big influx of extra supplies on the market from Saudi Arabia and other leading producers. Other energy prices...

Beat The Heat With Bargain Summer Wines.
July 7, 2000... Byline: Larry Olmsted, Investor's Daily Bordeaux is the traditional wine choice for lamb chops. Champagne never failswith smoked salmon. But what wines pair well with heat and humidity? "(Last) week in Napa, when it was pushing 100...

New Issues Tend To Magnify Broad Market.
July 7, 2000... Byline: David Saito-Chung, Investor's Daily New stocks can be exciting to own. But like carnival mirrors that make peoplelook overly tall or wide, focusing on IPOs alone may distort your view of the market. In a bull run, brand-new issues...

Physician Walter Reed - His Determination To Contribute To Society Helped Defang A Killer Disease.
July 7, 2000... Byline: Michael Mink, Investor's Daily Dr. Walter Reed had dreamed for 20 years of making a notable contribution to alleviating human suffering. But he realized that if he didn't take action to change his circumstances, he'd never have...