Investor's Business Daily articles from October 2000

Investor's Business Daily archives from October 2000

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October 2, 2000... Trends . Recent flood of defective autos is raising questions about quality The 19.9 million cars recalled in the U.S. last year exceed the number of cars sold by 3 million, statistics show. Some 2 million cars were recalled in...

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October 2, 2000... Washington Congress makes conservation deal as budget process creeps forward Rep. Norm Dicks, D-Wash., said the land deal he helped engineer is "the greatest increase in resources for conservation in the history of the...

10SECRETS.(A)
October 2, 2000... Runner John Register was training in May 1994 with an eye toward the 1996 Olympic Games, aiming for his third berth in the U.S. trials and his first tripto the Olympics, when he suffered a life-changing injury. Landing the wrong way after...

Naturalist Roger Tory Peterson His Improvements In Field Guides Helped Bird-Watching Take Off.(A)(Leaders & Success)
October 2, 2000... Byline: Jennifer Lloyd Investor's Business Daily When most young people were putting away their childhood hobbies, Roger Tory Peterson was just getting started. Growing up in Jamestown, N.Y., Peterson (1908-96) rarely missed an...

Violin Teacher Dorothy DeLay Step By Step, She Helps Students Reach Beyond Their Limits.(A)(Leaders & Success)
October 2, 2000... Byline: Christopher L. Tyner Investor's Business Daily Dorothy DeLay has spent half a century at the Juilliard School of Music helpingher violin students unlock the virtuosi within. Her motherly warmth and affection for her...

Wisdom To Live By.(A)(Leaders & Success)
October 2, 2000... {TEXT} Wisdom To Live By . {TEXT} ON PERSEVERANCE The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Epicurus, philosopher ON TAKING ACTION Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory. ...

Bush Outlines Plan To Ease Energy Crunch He'd Open Up Alaska, Offer Credits For Alternatives, Aid Poor.(A)(ENERGY)
October 2, 2000... SAGINAW, Mich. (AP) - Saying the Clinton-Gore administration was "caught napping" when oil prices began to rise recently, George Bush on Friday said Democrats have failed to develop a comprehensive energy policy, putting "our economy and the...

United Air Expects 2nd-Half Loss On Fuel And Labor Costs, Turmoil.(A)(UAL)
October 2, 2000... CHICAGO (AP) - United Airlines' parent warned Friday it expects to lose money for two straight quarters as the result of its disastrous summer of delays and cancellations coupled with an industry-leading pilots' contract and costlier jet fuel....

Computers Made Plain Private Networks Called Intranets No Longer Just For Big Companies.(A)(Computers Made Plain)
October 2, 2000... Byline: David Noack Investor's Business Daily For Robert Duncan, an intranet isn't a luxury - it's a necessity. Jury docket coordinator for the Charleston County, S.C., clerk of the courts, he uses it to post documents and keep in...

Your PC Firm Might Be Fine, Or It Might Not Apple's warning followed Intel's warning, but other PC and chip companies say they're still sailing along.(A)(Internet & Technology)
October 2, 2000... Byline: Patrick Seitz Investor's Business Daily Computer makers are sending conflicting messages about the health of the personal computer industry. But looking at the various companies is like comparing Apple and oranges, analysts...

Shop For Stocks Where Best Big Investors Buy.(A)(Investor's Corner)
October 2, 2000... Byline: Christina Wise Investor's Business Daily Some people turn to magazines for an early look at the next season's fashion trend. When it comes to stocks, let the big boys set the style. Mutual funds, insurance companies and...

Xmas Season Will Separate Web's Faulty From 'Nice'.(A)(Internet & Technology)
October 2, 2000... Byline: Pete Barlas Investor's Business Daily After Laurie Windham completed her Christmas shopping on the Web last year, shegot an unwelcome surprise. Windham bought clothes for seven nephews and nieces from one online retailer....

X(ros) Buy Marked The Spot For Nortel's Optical Gamble.(A)(Internet & Technology)
October 2, 2000... Byline: Mike Angell Investor's Business Daily Rajiv Ramaswami is so good at optical networking, he wrote the book on it. Well, a college textbook at least. And who better to write such a book than this 10-year industry veteran....

TECHNOLOGY & EDUCATION Group Alarmed About School Computers.(A)(Internet & Technology)
October 2, 2000... Byline: Janet Purdy Levaux Investor's Business Daily With school in session, kids (and parents) have their hands full. Notebooks, pencil cases, lunch boxes and - in some cases - laptop computers. The increasing presence of PCs at...

INTERNET Human Factors Aims To Fix Feel Of Web.(A)(Internet & Technology)
October 2, 2000... Byline: Julie Mitchell Investor's Business Daily We've all been there. You click to a Web site, whether to shop or to browse , and the experience is no fun at all. Too many choices. Distracting graphics. Lots of clutter. A company...

Economic Briefs - And Abroad.(A)
October 2, 2000... Manila Port Strike Ends After Worker Is Shot Dead About 100 strikers returned to work after a striker was fatally shot in a scuffle with security guards, company officials said. The workers ended their strike late Thursday following a...

Economic Briefs - At Home.(A)
October 2, 2000... Forecasts Have Smaller Role In Fed's Decisions: S.F. Fed "Most forecasts of output and inflation have been off the mark for several years," said San Francisco Federal Reserve President Robert Parry. Now the Fed relies less on economic...

SCHEDULE.(A)
October 2, 2000... MONDAY Construction Spending: August report, 10 a.m. EDT. Manufacturers Survey: National Association of Purchasing Management September report, 10 a.m. EDT. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers makes partnership in education...

Rise In Airline And Military Orders Spells Good Times Again For Defense A leaner, consolidated industry prospers as travel booms and the U.S. rebuilds its forces.(A)(SNAPSHOT)
October 2, 2000... Byline: Amy Reeves Investor's Business Daily No question, things have been different in aerospace and defense since the end of the Cold War. Defense spending is down, civilian air travel is way up and companies have been merging into...

INTEGRATED DEVICE TECHNOLOGY INC. / Santa Clara, California 'Chicken Little' Of Chips Waits For Sky To Fall.(A)(The New America)
October 2, 2000... Byline: Catherine Lacoursiere Investor's Business Daily Integrated Device Technology Inc. has been playing Chicken Little. The chipmaker claims the sky is going to fall on demand for memory chips and other low-price, low-margin...

SCIENTIFIC-ATLANTA INC. / Norcross, Georgia Will Set-Top Box Giant Head To Leaner Times?(A)(The New America)
October 2, 2000... Byline: Marilyn Alva Investor's Business Daily The world is going digital, but is it gravitating toward Scientific-Atlanta Inc.? The maker of digital set-top boxes is feeding cable operators as fast as it canwith the digital...

How To Reduce Risk Of Injury In Car Crashes.(A)(News For You)
October 2, 2000... Byline: Rick Morris Investor's Business Daily You're stopped at an intersection waiting for the red light to turn green. Suddenly, out of your rearview mirror, you spot a Seville preparing to redesignthe back of your car. Quick, what...

C-MAC INDUSTRIES INC. / Montreal, Quebec Nortel Deal Gives Electronics Firm A Leg Up.(A)(The New America)
October 2, 2000... Byline: Vance Cariaga Investor's Business Daily Claude Michaud won't take the bait, no matter how many times he's asked how hiscompany got such a sweet deal with its biggest client. Michaud is chief financial officer of C-Mac...

Pride And Fear Led The Danes To Reject Joining Euro Crowd.(A)(EUROPE)
October 2, 2000... BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - Denmark's rejection of the single European currency ismore than a desire to hang on to the 125-year old krone; it's the gut fear of being swallowed up by the continent's powerhouses. More significantly, it couldbe the...

Aug. Personal Incomes Up 0.4% As Spending Grew Stronger 0.6%.(A)(INCOME)
October 2, 2000... WASHINGTON (AP) - Americans' incomes rose solidly in August, but their spendingwent up faster, pulling the nation's personal savings rate down to a record monthly low. The Commerce Department reported Friday that personal income, which...

The Real Most Active - NYSE.(A)(The Real Most Active - NYSE)
October 2, 2000... The Real Most Active NYSE indexes surrendered nearly all of Thursday's gains Friday, victims of profit warnings from Apple and United Airlines. The Dow Jones industrial average slid 173.14 points, or 1.6%, to 10,650.92. TheS&P 500...

Stocks In The News - NYSE.(A)
October 2, 2000... General Electric broke out of a 15-week base in early August. After a run of a little more than two weeks, it lapsed into its current consolidation. It finished Friday 4% off its old high. The diversified technology and manufacturing...

The Big Picture.(A)(The Big Picture)
October 2, 2000... THE BIG PICTURE Last week's end-of-quarter "window dressing" looked more like window smashing on Friday. The Nasdaq fell 2.8%, closing near the day's low and erasing most of Thursday's3.3% advance. Volume picked up in the final hour...

Capitalism's Many Benefits Create 'Luckiest Generation'.(A)(National Issue)
October 2, 2000... By W. Michael Cox Tom Brokaw's "Greatest Generation," now passing offstage, endured the Great Depression, won World War II and then came home from the battlefields to build the world's richest economy. Our nation may not see the likes...

GORE'S HOLLOW ATTACKS.(A)(Editorial)
October 2, 2000... While Vice President Al Gore and Gov. George Bush spar over the future of Medicare, a bipartisan panel has found the system is rushing toward ruin fasterthan thought. Congress has to make hard choices soon. A Band-Aid won't do. A report...

AN OASIS OF ACHIEVEMENT.(A)(Editorial)
October 2, 2000... The word is that the just-ending Sydney Olympics haven't inspired the wide viewership of past events. Scarily enough, Americans might even be paying more attention to presidential politics, if you believe ratings reports. Pity. After all,...

After 10 Years Of Sanctions, Iraq Still A Thorn In U.S.' Side.(A)(Viewpoint)
October 2, 2000... Investor's Business Daily George W.'s father tried it. Al Gore's boss tried it, too. But only one of the presidential candidates will get to try it for himself. Do something about Iraq, that is. It's been 10 years since the...

IBD's Top 10.(A)(IBD's Top 10 1-5)
October 2, 2000... Bush Offers Energy Plan; Gore Rips It As Anti-Green 1George Bush charged that the administration left the U.S. "at the mercy of bigforeign oil." He urged opening 1.5 million acres of the Arctic wildlife refugefor drilling, which...

Fund Flows Strong In Aug. But Then Weaken Janus Group Feels Bite Of Closed Funds, Tech Slump.(B)(Making Money In Mutuals)
October 2, 2000... Byline: Dan Moreau Investor's Business Daily Janus Group, after leading most other fund groups in recent years, projected a net outflow of about $68 billion from its stock funds for September, its first such outflow since December...

IPO Funds Report Seeing Faint Signs Of Life But Investors Remain Cautious Amid A Struggling Stock Market.(B)(Making Money In Mutuals)
October 2, 2000... Byline: Claire Mencke Investor's Business Daily The initial public offering spigot got turned most of the way off in late spring as the market for tech stocks fell apart. But several weeks ago, the IPO tap began to open again....

The Real Most Active - NASDAQ.(B)(The Real Most Active - NASDAQ)
October 2, 2000... The Real Most Active One bad Apple undid most of Thursday's gains Friday. The Nasdaq lost 105.50 points, or 2.8%, to 3672.82. That erased most of Thursday's 3.3% gain. It was the fourth time during the week that the tech-heavy index...

Stocks In The News - NASDAQ.(B)
October 2, 2000... has been consolidating for five weeks. It stands 11% from its Aug. 25 high. The Irvine, Calif.-based firm makes chips that transmit voice, data and video over set-top boxes. On Aug. 30, Intel filed suit against Broadcom, accusing the...

New Retention Plan Boosts Coffee; Oil Advances, Grains Close Mixed.(B)(FUTURES)
October 2, 2000... By Reuters Coffee prices closed with mild gains on Friday as the depressed market took encouragment from news that leading coffee producing countries plan to go aheadwith a try to hold back coffee supplies. In other commodity trading,...

Treasuries Have That Fresh Taste While Stocks Show A Rotten Side.(B)(Credit Markets)
October 2, 2000... By Reuters U.S. Treasuries rose Friday as investors balancing their holdings ahead of the month's and quarter's end bought back longer-dated Treasuries that had been sold off earlier this month. Another slide in equities helped boost...

Brocade Borrows Page From Intel, Stays Paranoid To Remain In Hunt.(A)(Company In The News)
October 2, 2000... Byline: Vance Cariaga Investor's Business Daily With soaring sales and a dominant market position, you'd think Brocade Communications Systems Inc. officials would be glad to discuss the company's future. So why do they sound so...

IBD's Top 10.(A)(IBD's Top 10 6-10)
October 2, 2000... UAL Expects 3rd-Qtr Loss In Wake Of Delays, Strike 6United Airlines' parent firm sees a loss in the third quarter and "probably inthe fourth quarter as well," CEO James Goodwin warned. He didn't specify the size of the losses. The news...

Business News.(A)(Business News)
October 2, 2000... Telecom SBC, BellSouth venture approved, might spend $6 billion on airwaves The Federal Communications Commission approved the two phone companies' plan tocreate the No. 2 wireless carrier in the U.S. But they must sell operations...

Business News.(A)(Business News)
October 2, 2000... Consumer/Retail Mattel to sell sagging Learning Co. Mattel found a buyer for the software unit that has been losing $1 million a day. The toymaker will sell the unit to an affiliate of Gores Technology Group that specializes in buying...

Business News.(A)(Business News)
October 2, 2000... Finance Salomon ranks top U.S. underwriter of investment-grade corporate bond Salomon Smith Barney extended its lead as this year's top U.S. investment-gradecorporate bond underwriter, Thomson Financial Securities Data reported....

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October 2, 2000... Auto DaimlerChrysler won't meet target of cutting costs by $2 bil this year After warning of a third-quarter loss, DaimlerChrysler's Chrysler side said it will not meet a $2 billion cost-cutting target this year. It said 2000...

Business News.(A)(Business News)
October 3, 2000... In Brief A lawsuit against America Online won't be heard in the Supreme Court. The courtrefused to revive the suit by AOL subscribers who accused the firm of not protecting their privacy. America Online and American Airlines...

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October 3, 2000... Trends . Student loan defaults fall, again The number of students who defaulted on their college loans declined in fiscal 1999 to 6.9%, dropping below 7% for the first time. Defaults totaled 8.8% the year before, Education Department...

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October 3, 2000... Washington GOP tries to attach patients' rights to Medicare bill up before House House Speaker Dennis Hastert tapped Reps. Bill Thomas, R-Calif., and John Shadegg, R-Ariz., to work with Senate leaders to bridge gaps in GOP ranks...

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October 3, 2000... The credits roll, showing the names of those behind the camera. At the end of amotion picture, most audience members are unaware how carefully successful filmmakers haved mulled the details that make up each shot and scene. Take, for...

Artist R.C. Gorman He Followed His Passion And Became A Noted American Indian Artist.(A)(Leaders & Success)
October 3, 2000... Byline: Kathryn Linderman Investor's Business Daily The New York Times has called him "the Picasso of American Indian art." But pioneering artist R.C. Gorman chose his own path. With countless awards to his credit, Gorman, 68, is...

Allergan's David Pyott His Coaching And Sharpened Focus Helped Revive Drugmaker.(A)(Leaders & Success)
October 3, 2000... Byline: Emily Nash Investor's Business Daily David Pyott, chief executive and president of Allergan Inc., who turned the eyecare and specialty drugmaker around, looks skeptically on people who say they can see where their careers will...

Wisdom To Live By.(A)(Leaders & Success)
October 3, 2000... {TEXT} Wisdom To Live By . {TEXT} ON BEING POSITIVE Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and...

Computers Made Plain Make Your PC Into One-Man Band Even If You Can't Play Instruments.(A)(Computers Made Plain)
October 3, 2000... Byline: Nancy Gondo Investor's Business Daily Look out, NSync and Britney. New software lets amateur musicians create and record their own tunes. And it works with gear that's already inside most computers. Even if you can't...

Chip Gear Pair Join Big Output, Technical Savvy ASM Lithography looks to get cutting edge equipment, while Silicon Valley Group requires big-time manufacturing muscle.(A)(Internet & Technology)
October 3, 2000... Byline: James DeTar Investor's Business Daily Despite worries of a slowdown in industry sales growth, chip-equipment maker ASM Lithography Holding NV on Tuesday announced plans to buy rival Silicon Valley Group Inc. for $1.6 billion in...

Middlemen Holding Sway Over Electronic Markets.(A)(Internet & Technology)
October 3, 2000... Byline: Jed Graham Investor's Business Daily Just a year ago major Wall Street firms were looking to invest in upstart stocktrading networks, which seemed a major threat to the status quo. More and more trading volume was passing...

Capital One Testing Out The Limits In Marketing To Credit Card Users.(A)(Company In The News)
October 3, 2000... Byline: Jonah Keri Investor's Business Daily You're eating dinner with your family as the phone rings. It's Bob from CapitalOne Financial Corp., your credit card issuer. Bob tells you he's raising your 12% rate to 20%, based on recent...

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October 3, 2000... 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 from...

COMPUTER SECURITY Rare Sighting Of Hackers' 'Hannibal Lecter'.(A)(Internet & Technology)
October 3, 2000... Byline: Donna Howell Investor's Business Daily 'I get a lot of e-mail," said Kevin Mitnick, the icon. Young hacker wannabes ask him probing questions like "How do I get into my girlfriend's e-mail?" Those questions tend to go...

Economic Briefs - And Abroad.(A)
October 3, 2000... EU-S. Korea Talks Break Off; WTO Complaint Seems Likely The EU accuses South Korean shipbuilders of undercutting market prices. It alsoclaims that South Korea has not allowed EU officials to gauge prices and costsat South Korean...

Economic Briefs - At Home.(A)
October 3, 2000... Those Who Can't Use Net Will Be Left Behind: Study "Not having access to the technology or not knowing how to use it will be the equivalent of not knowing how to read or write," said Michael Fleisher, chief executive at Gartner Group...

As Fed Debates Interest Rate Policy, Analysts Focus On Future Decisions Fed likely to stand pat this time, but that's where consensus ends. Could there be rate cut in 2001?(A)(Business & The Economy)
October 3, 2000... Byline: Charles Oliver Investor's Business Daily Investors and economists are convinced that the Federal Reserve will stand pat when it meets Tuesday. If so, it would mark the third straight meeting at whichthe Federal Open Market...

As Pound Tumbles, Britons Start To Squirm.(A)(Business & The Economy)
October 3, 2000... Byline: The Associated Press With the pound bouncing off a 14-year low against the dollar this month, U.K.-based textile exporter Fred Ellis would seem ideally positioned to make more money. A weaker pound makes British exports more...

SCHEDULE.(A)
October 3, 2000... Calendar Of Economic Indicators TUESDAY BTM Chain-Store Sales: Week ended Saturday, 9 a.m. EDT. New-Home Sales: August report (forecast 900,000), 10 a.m. EDT. Leading Indicators: The Conference Board's August report (median...

Oil Prices Resume Their Advance Amid New Iraq-Kuwait Tension.(A)(OIL)
October 3, 2000... LONDON (Reuters) - Oil prices moved higher on Monday, boosted by renewed tension between Iraq and Kuwait and signs that the European Union will not follow the U.S. lead in releasing emergency oil reserves to cool off the market. Traders...

Wal-Mart Outlines Expansion Plans.(A)(WALMART)
October 3, 2000... BENTONVILLE, Ark. (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores said sales at stores open at least a year rose 4.8% in September from a year-ago, and announced plans to open more than 200 discount stores, Supercenters and shopping clubs in the U.S.next year. ...

T. ROWE PRICE ASSOCIATES INC. / Baltimore, Maryland Broker Would Rather Stay On Buyout Sidelines.(A)(The New America)
October 3, 2000... Byline: Robin M. Grugal Investor's Business Daily Many brokers and asset managers are posturing for possible mergers. Not T. RowePrice Associates Inc. It prefers to stay on its own, and has turned to self-improvement instead. "We...

New-High List Sheds Light On Market Leaders.(A)(Investor's Corner)
October 3, 2000... By David Saito-Chung Investor's Business Daily When next month's New York City Marathon starts, not all the runners will have their toes on the starting line. The pros line up at the front and set the pace. Now imagine the market...

IMMUNOGEN INC. / Norwood, Massachusetts New Cancer Treatment Helps Biotech Recover.(A)(The New America)
October 3, 2000... Byline: Gloria Lau Investor's Business Daily In the late 1990s, Immunogen Inc. was living hand-to-mouth. Chairman and Chief Executive Mitchel Sayare admitted the company had only $2 million in cash - just enough to meet two payrolls -...

BELL MICROPRODUCTS INC. / San Jose, California Distributor On Buying Spree In Global Push.(A)(The New America)
October 3, 2000... Byline: Steve Watkins Investor's Business Daily Bell Microproducts Inc. is on an acquisition binge that has it entering Europe,Latin America and Canada. In August, the high-tech components distributor bought Ideal Hardware Ltd., a...

The Real Most Active - NYSE.(A)(The Real Most Active - NYSE)
October 3, 2000... The Real Most Active Stocks ended mixed on lighter, yet still heavy, volume Monday. The Dow industrial average had a poor start, losing 19 points, but managed to finish up 49.21, or 0.5%, at 10,700.13. The S&P 500 fell 0.28 point to...

Stocks In The News - NYSE.(A)
October 3, 2000... has been consolidating just above its old high for the past 5 1/2 weeks, forming a base-on-base formation. The stock has found support at its 50-day moving average. It's 8% off its Aug. 22 peak. The Stratham, N.H.-based company sells hiking...

The Big Picture.(A)(The Big Picture)
October 3, 2000... THE BIG PICTURE Techs resumed their sell-off Monday, picking up where the third quarter left off. The Nasdaq fell 2.8% for a second session 1, taking out its Sept. 22 and 28 lows. That killed any conceivable rally attempt from the...

Taking On Turkey: Republican Gambit For Armenian Vote Risks U.S. Interests.(A)(View Point)
October 3, 2000... By Frank J. Gaffney Jr. As House Speaker Dennis Hastert and his Republican colleagues struggle to retain control of Congress, they have had to endure the indignity of accepting deals - from raising the minimum wage to new entitlement...

An End To 'Era Of Big Government'? Not While Pork Spending Continues.(A)(National Issue)
October 3, 2000... Byline: Daniel J. Murphy Investor's Business Daily Lawmakers want out of Washington ASAP so they can run for re-election. A littlepork always greases the skids for their escape and eventual return. How else can you explain $8.5...

ISSUES, NOT ONE-LINERS, PLEASE.(A)(Editorial)
October 3, 2000... To listen to the pundit class, you'd think the future of the universe hinged onTuesday's debate between Al Gore and George Bush. It's nothing so grand. But debates are important, especially if they let voters see where the men stand onthe...

THE GOVERNMENT HELPS WHOM?(A)(Editorial)
October 3, 2000... The government's sacking of Microsoft was for consumers. That's what the Justice Department told us, anyway. If so, then why would prices rise if the government is able to split the company? A study by Stan Liebowitz, an economics professor...

New Rule Might Boost Earnings Warnings Stricter SEC Disclosure Laws Could Make Companies More Wary.(B)(Making Money In Mutuals)
October 3, 2000... Byline: Ken Hoover Investor's Business Daily Intel shareholders won't soon forget Sept. 21. The company said after the market closed that third-quarter sales would be 10% below estimates. The next day, the stock dropped 22%. ...

How To Generate Buzz To Sell Your Product.(A)(News For You)
October 3, 2000... Byline: Gary M. Stern Investor's Business Daily Did you see that new film "Almost Famous"? Did you hear about that new wirelessproduct from Japan, the Modo? Did you see all those execs scooting all over Manhattan? It's all about buzz....

Atlas Growth & Income Tilts Toward Growth Fund, Up 10% This Year, Has 60% Of Assets In Segment.(B)(Making Money In Mutuals)
October 3, 2000... Byline: Leo Fasciocco Investor's Business Daily Atlas Growth & Income Fund splits the investment world into camps - growth and value - and strives to invest in the best of both. The past few years, Atlas Growth & Income has put 60%...

The Real Most Active - NASDAQ.(B)(The Real Most Active - NASDAQ)
October 3, 2000... The Real Most Active Techs fell hard on Monday as computer and software-related firms dragged lower. The Nasdaq composite fell 103.90 points, or 2.8%, to 3568.92. The Nasdaq 100 lost 3.2%. Volume fell 11% to 1.80 billion shares. Losers...

Stocks In The News - NASDAQ.(B)
October 3, 2000... Education Management made a 227% upward move from mid-October last year to mid-August. The stock then corrected 23% within its base. Last week it found support at its 50-day moving average, a sign of institutional support. It's a hair below its...

Iraq-Kuwait Tension Boosts Oil; Coffee's Ugly Collapse Resumes.(B)(FUTURES)
October 3, 2000... By Reuters Oil prices rose on Monday amid renewed tension between Iraq and Kuwait, signs that the European Union would not release emergency oil supplies to force down prices and a Gulf of Mexico storm that fed worries that offshore oil...

Oil Trips Longer-Term Treasuries, But Shorter-Dated Issues Thrive.(B)(Credit Markets)
October 3, 2000... By Reuters Higher oil prices helped push inflation-wary longer-term U.S. Treasuries lower on Monday, but another slide in technology shares lifted shorter-dated issues as investors moved cash to the safe haven of government paper. ...

IBD's Top 10.(A)(IBD's Top 10 1-5)
October 3, 2000... Factories' Activity Slowing; Fed Meets On Rate Policy 1The National Association of Purchasing Management said its activity index roseto 49.9 in September from 49.5 in August. A reading above 50 signals economic growth, and anything...