Investor's Business Daily articles from September 2000

Investor's Business Daily archives from September 2000

Are Execs' Options Diluting Your Stock's EPS?(A)(Mutual Weekly Special)
September 1, 2000... Byline: Claire Mencke Investor's Business Daily What's not to like about employee stock options? Employers think they motivate workers to do more with less. Shareholders think they steer top brass toward decisions that boost the stock...

Transamerica Premier Balanced Paces Peer Group.(B)(Mutual Weekly Special)
September 1, 2000... Byline: James Welsh Investor's Business Daily The financial press hasn't sung the praises of balanced funds recently, and there's a good reason. Of the 494 balanced funds followed by Lipper Inc., the average fund had gained only 4.8%...

Franklin Managers Search Broad Spectrum Group's Picks Range From JDS Uniphase To Philip Morris.(B)(Mutual Weekly Special)
September 1, 2000... Byline: Leo Fasciocco Investor's Business Daily The Franklin fund family showed aggressive and conservative sides in its buyingearlier this year. The giant mutual fund family was a big buyer of one of the hottest telecom stocks -...

Send Your Kids To College, On The House Improvement On College-Condo Strategy Can Yield Tax Breaks.(B)(Making Money In Mutuals)
September 1, 2000... Byline: Donald Jay Korn Investor's Business Daily The good news: Your child has started to attend Harvard or Haverford or Harvey Mudd. The bad news: You've started to pay the bills. The cost of a college education has soared....

The New America Index.(B)(The New America)
September 1, 2000... 1-800 Contacts Inc.7/10/00 AAON Inc.7/14/00 Accredo Health Inc.7/18/00 Aclara Biosciences8/3/00 ACLN Ltd7/11/00 Actel Corp.8/1/00 Actrade Intl Ltd.8/14/00 Acxiom Corp.7/10/00 Administaff Inc.8/29/00 ...

The Real Most Active - NASDAQ.(B)(The Real Most Active - NASDAQ)
September 1, 2000... The Real Most Active The Nasdaq gapped up Thursday morning and never looked back. The rousing rally pushed the composite index up 102.54 points, or 2.5%, to close at 4206.35. Winners trounced losers 3-2 as volume surged 23.6% to nearly...

Stocks In The News - NASDAQ.(B)
September 1, 2000... After making its Nasdaq debut on April 20 at $10 a share, Embarcadero Technologies tried, but failed, to head north. It broke out of a five-week baseon June 12, ran up 133% and lapsed into its current six-week consolidation. OnThursday it hit a...

Beans Surge As Drought Impacts; Gold Climbs On Short-Covering.(B)(FUTURES)
September 1, 2000... By The Associated Press Soybean prices surged to their highest level in 2 1/2 months Thursday amid continued extreme heat in key growing areas of the Delta and the southern Midwest. In other markets, natural gas futures fell after...

Business News.(A)(Business News)
September 5, 2000... Transportation United staves off most cancellations as bustling holiday weekend begins A dispute with pilots and bad weather led to thousands of canceled flights thissummer. But United Airlines said it had canceled only 33 of...

Page_2.(A)
September 5, 2000... Trends . Revolving door for chief execs seems to spin faster this year Search firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas found a record number of CEOs jumped ship in August, according to the Industry Standard. Who leads? Dot-coms, with 21...

Page_2.(A)
September 5, 2000... Washington Court halts Wen Ho Lee release The jailed Los Alamos scientist expected to be home on $1 million bail. But U.S. District Judge James Parker, holding an emergency hearing on Lee's release, told the courtroom he'd just been...

10SECRETS.(A)
September 5, 2000... How much do you know? Chances are it's more than you think. A person's knowledge base isn't always obvious to himself or others, explains Dan Holtshouse, director of corporate strategy and a knowledge management expert atXerox Corp. in...

Baseball Player Stan Musial Love For The Game And Confidence In His Skill Made Him One Of The Best.(A)(Leaders & Success)
September 5, 2000... Byline: Michael Mink Investor's Business Daily Sixteen-year-old Stanislaus "Stan" Musial's future was at issue in 1937, as he prepared to make the most important decision of his life. Musial was completing his junior year of high...

Union Organizer Samuel Gompers He Took Small Steps To Achieve Large Goals.(A)(Leaders & Success)
September 5, 2000... Byline: Kathryn Linderman Investor's Business Daily Samuel Gompers knew what it was to spend childhood in a dark, miserable tenement, slaving away for hours to help the family eat. He'd done it. But he swore that other children...

Wisdom To Live By.(A)(Leaders & Success)
September 5, 2000... {TEXT} Wisdom To Live By . {TEXT} ON STAYING BUSY Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. Leonardo da Vinci, artist,...

Computers Made Plain Wireless Portals Open Net Window For Web-Surfing Cell-Phone Users.(A)(Computers Made Plain)
September 5, 2000... Byline: Nancy Gondo Investor's Business Daily You probably use portals such as Yahoo or Excite when surfing the Internet on your personal computer. But how can you get all the data you need when using a cell phone? Wireless...

Vacation Over, Tech Investors See No Holiday Wall Street stock pickers see some selective gains among tech stocks, not the soaring heights scaled before March.(A)(Internet & Technology)
September 5, 2000... Byline: Jed Graham Investor's Business Daily It seems like tech stocks were just here about seven weeks ago. The Nasdaq was pushing 4250 and shares of Cisco Systems Inc. were trying to break above 70. But both reversed direction in a...

Carmakers' Online Effort Traveling A Rough Road.(A)(Internet & Technology)
September 5, 2000... Byline: Paul A. Eisenstein and||||Murray Coleman Investor's Business Daily It was perhaps the crowning moment in the fledgling movement to create electronic marketplaces - Web sites where companies in an industry join together to buy...

Jobless Rate Rises, Factories Cool As Economic Slowdown Hits Home.(A)(Company In The News)
September 5, 2000... Byline: Charles Oliver Investor's Business Daily Buckle your seat belts and place your trays in an upright position. The economyis coming in for a landing. Private-sector job growth has tumbled. Total payrolls fell at their...

Emulex Suspect Tried Hard To Cover Tracks But Investigators Portray Mark Jakob As Typical 20-Something.(A)(EMULEX)
September 5, 2000... LOS ANGELES (AP) - Was the man accused of sabotaging a company's stock by issuing a phony press release a clever cyber criminal or an amateur investor who hatched a clumsy plan to cover his losses? Federal documents filed in the case of...

Internet Consulting Firms Shelled Amid New Doubts.(A)(TEK3)
September 5, 2000... WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Overseas use is transforming the Internet from a U.S.-dominated medium to a true international communications backbone, a U.S. group tracking the online world said on Friday. The U.S. Internet Council, an...

SEMICONDUCTORS Chip Foundry TSMC Aims For Top Spot.(A)(Internet & Technology)
September 5, 2000... Byline: James DeTar Investor's Business Daily It's only a matter of time. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. says it willsoon wear the crown of the world's biggest chipmaker - at least in unit figures. With sales projected at...

Economic Briefs - And Abroad.(A)
September 5, 2000... Norway Can't Assist Efforts To Cool Soaring Oil Prices Norway's offshore oil fields are already running at full capacity, so the world's second-largest oil exporter can do nothing more to increase supply and help curb soaring prices,...

Economic Briefs - At Home.(A)
September 5, 2000... Back-To-School Sales Firm, Retailers In U.S. Malls Report The strong sales season has retailers optimistic about upcoming holiday sales, but that hope is tempered by slower growth from year-ago levels. Retailers say consumer...

Tax-Cutting Debate Heats Up Again As Gore, Bush Offer Dueling Deals Candidates don't argue pro and con, rather how much. Do we need a cut in this booming economy?(A)(Business & The Economy)
September 5, 2000... Byline: M. Susan Basas Investor's Business Daily Bush's plan comes to $1.3 trillion over 10 years. Gore's, $500 billion over thesame period. The White House candidates are wrangling over which plan is best for America. And that's...

Living Wage: Some Gain, Neediest Lose Out.(A)(Business & The Economy)
September 5, 2000... Byline: Charles Oliver Investor's Business Daily Across the country, more than two dozen cities have passed so-called living-wage laws. These require employers doing business with the city to pay their workers an hourly wage high...

SCHEDULE.(A)
September 5, 2000... Calendar Of Economic Indicators TUESDAY Congress returns from recess. Euro Zone: July jobless, industrial prices in 11-member group. WEDNESDAY Nonfarm Productivity: Second-quarter revised report, 8:30 a.m. EDT. Unit...

U.S., Israel Ready If Iraqi Military Launches Missiles.(A)(ISRAEL)
September 5, 2000... WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S., concerned Iraq could try to fire ballistic missiles at Israel, has alerted a U.S. Army Patriot antimissile battery in Germany to prepare for possible deployment to Israel. "We have told a battery to be on...

Clinton Won't Make Missile Defense Ruling He Lacks Confidence In Technology, Will Let Successor Decide.(A)(MISSILE)
September 5, 2000... WASHINGTON (AP) - President Clinton, saying he lacks "absolute confidence" in existing technology, announced Friday he would leave to his successor a decision on whether to deploy a national missile defense system. In a speech at...

Group Charts Can't Pinpoint Leading Stocks.(A)(Investor's Corner)
September 5, 2000... Byline: David Saito-Chung Investor's Business Daily In life, it often helps to see the forest, not the trees. But to excel in growth investing, you should do the opposite. Charts that show the price action for stocks in the same...

AMVESCAP PLC / London, England Golden Years, Global Moves On Adviser's Mind.(A)(The New America)
September 5, 2000... Byline: Thomas M. Kostigen Investor's Business Daily Charles Brady consistently talks of two things: going global and retirement plans. The chief executive of Amvescap PLC, the world's largest publicly traded asset management...

The New America.(A)
September 5, 2000... Byline: Catherine Lacoursiere Investor's Business Daily Don't expect the debate over employee stock options to die out anytime soon. Two new studies on the compensation tool that is conversely praised for rallying troops and...

TECHNITROL INC. / Trevose, Pennsylvania Prices Are Flat At Firm - And That's Good.(A)(The New America)
September 5, 2000... Byline: Steve Watkins Investor's Business Daily One of the pitfalls of the electronics field is that prices are always coming down. But Technitrol Inc. has seen its prices hold steady the past few quarters. Thathas helped the...

U.S. To Warn Of More Bad Firestone Tires As Many As 1.8 Mil Could Be Added To Consumer Warning List.(A)(TIRES)
September 5, 2000... WASHINGTON (AP) - The Clinton administration plans to issue a consumer warning that another 1.8 million Bridgestone/Firestone Inc. tires are susceptible to problems like those already under investigation, The Associated Press has learned. ...

The Real Most Active - NYSE.(A)(The Real Most Active - NYSE)
September 5, 2000... The Real Most Active Stocks gave back most of their early gains in a volatile session Friday. The Dow industrial average gained 0.9% in the first half hour of trade, but retreated on news that manufacturing in August saw a...

Stocks In The News - NYSE.(A)
September 5, 2000... After rising more than sixfold from April 1999 to late June this year, Analog Devices is trying to clear resistance at 100. The stock notched new highs on Thursday and Friday. But weekly volume was lower from the previous week. The...

The Big Picture.(A)(The Big Picture)
September 5, 2000... THE BIG PICTURE The market popped up Friday morning, but settled for modest gains going into the long holiday weekend. A bigger-than-expected drop in August jobs got stocks off to a strong start. Payrolls fell by 105,000, but that...

Goodbye, Britain? America Will Lose Special Friendship If Euro Zone Grows.(A)(View Point)
September 5, 2000... By Paul Craig Roberts The collapse of the Soviet Union a decade ago has removed foreign policy from the prominent role it once played in presidential campaigns. George Bush has said a few words about missile defense, and President...

Full Coffers Mean Spending Will Rise, But Which Side Will End Up On Top?(A)(National Issue)
September 5, 2000... Byline: Peter Cleary Investor's Business Daily Call it "Two Tales of One City." This week the wags in Washington will begin spinning two very different stories on the work left for Congress before November. Republicans will boast...

THE NEEDED COLOMBIA DEBATE.(A)(Editorial)
September 5, 2000... When a U.S. president drops in at a civil war-torn, narco-corrupted country fora few hours, promises its president $1.3 billion plus military advisers, the event should raise a few questions. When he says we'll not get ourselves into another...

Get Real Grip On Fears With Virtual Therapy.(A)(News For You)
September 5, 2000... Byline: Tim Haddock Investor's Business Daily You've landed that hot new regional manager position. One catch: You'll have tofly to the central office once a week. The last time you set foot on a plane, you had to take so many...

SO MUCH FOR THE SURPLUS.(A)(Editorial)
September 5, 2000... As soon as projections of a federal budget came out, so did the warnings: If the money is left in Washington, it will be spent. The warnings weren't heeded,though. Politicians are ready to spend the surplus into a deficit. Al Gore is the...

Inflation-Tied Bond Funds Draw Investors TIPS Bond Fund Returns This Year Range From 6% To 8%.(B)(Making Money In Mutuals)
September 5, 2000... Byline: Paul Katzeff Investor's Business Daily While the Federal Reserve nudged up interest rates, tech-sector stock and fund investors gnashed their teeth. Higher rates pushed their stocks and funds into a slump last spring and again...

Warburg Pincus' Black Broadens Holdings Fund, Up 16% This Year, Is Positioned For 'Healthier' Market.(B)(Making Money In Mutuals)
September 5, 2000... Byline: Tom Gray Investor's Business Daily You may not have known it from the Nasdaq's stomach-churning ride in the spring, but the stock market has been on the mend this year. That's the view of Susan Black, managing director of...

The Real Most Active - NASDAQ.(B)(The Real Most Active - NASDAQ)
September 5, 2000... The Real Most Active The Nasdaq managed to stifle its enthusiasm about a weak jobs report, but stilllogged a respectable gain Friday. The composite index ran up as high as 4259.87 in the first 30 minutes of trading, then pulled back....

Stocks In The News - NASDAQ.(B)
September 5, 2000... Iona Technologies ran up 741% from September 1999 to its March 10 peak of 102. It then began a 25-week cup-with-handle base. The stock is near the top of its handle and lies 21% from its 52-week high. Iona fell 63% before starting the right...

Oil Spurts To Six-Month High; Drought Woes Boost Cotton More.(B)(FUTURES)
September 5, 2000... By Reuters Oil prices closed at a six-month high Friday on a flurry of buying as traders shrugged off signs that Saudi Arabia would push next month for a big increase in OPEC oil exports. In other commodity markets, grain markets edged...

What's Bad For The Job Market Translates Into Good For Bonds.(B)(Credit Markets)
September 5, 2000... By Reuters U.S. Treasuries climbed on Friday after soft August jobs and manufacturing datafueled hopes the world's top economy may be slowing enough to stem more Federal Reserve rate hikes. Treasuries jumped higher out of the starting...

IBD's Top 10.(A)(IBD's Top 10 1-5)
September 5, 2000... Jobless Rate Climbs A Bit As Payrolls Take A Dive 1The nation's jobless rate edged up to 4.1% in August and payrolls fell by a bigger-than-expected 105,000, the largest drop in nine years. But most of the drop in total employment came...

IBD's Top 10.(A)(IBD's Top 10 6-10)
September 5, 2000... Firestone's Woes Build Up As Ford Eyes New Supplier 6A strike at nine of Bridgestone/Firestone's 11 U.S. plants could be devastating as the firm deals with the recall of 6.5 million tires. The government is investigating hundreds of...

Business News.(A)(Business News)
September 5, 2000... Autos DaimlerChrysler calls off meeting with analysts - over Mitsubishi? Britain's Financial Times reported DaimlerChrysler Chief Executive Jurgen Schrempp had sent two senior directors to Tokyo for emergency talks to amend his...

Business News.(A)(Business News)
September 5, 2000... Internet Internet consultants get downgraded on worries over dot-com exposure While analysts said the Web consulting business isn't in dire trouble across the board, those with too many ailing dot-com clients may be in trouble....

Business News.(A)(Business News)
September 5, 2000... Media AOL, Time Warner aim to appease EU regulators on pending merger EU regulators have already tentatively decided the AOL-Time Warner merger couldhurt competition. EU officials will look at two big deals this week: AOL and Time...

Business News.(A)(Business News)
September 6, 2000... In Brief Boeing, as part of its expansion into computerized maintenance services, acquired Canadian software company AeroInfo Systems. America Online reached a multiyear deal to distribute GoTo.com's Pay-For-Performance listings on the...

Page_2.(A)
September 6, 2000... Trends . Number of med-school applicants down for third consecutive year The number of applicants to the nation's 125 medical schools in 1999 was down 6% from 1998. The American Medical Association's survey didn't address...

Page_2.(A)
September 6, 2000... Washington Gore to build up 'rainy-day fund' Vice President Al Gore promised to set $300 billion in reserve over 10 years incase today's rosy projections aren't realized tomorrow. Gore began to lay the groundwork for a major economic...

10SECRETS.(A)
September 6, 2000... Cyclist Lance Armstrong watched in 1996 as the silvery chemotherapy fluids dripped from a plastic bag into his bloodstream. He was fighting for his life. Later, that tough battle helped him understand the three-week, 2,300-mile Tour de France...

Chico's FAS' Marvin Gralnick Dedication To Teamwork Helped Push Retailer To The Top.(A)(Leaders & Success)
September 6, 2000... Byline: Marilyn Much Investor's Business Daily In 1994, just a year into Marvin Gralnick's blissful retirement, he had a rude awakening. Chico's FAS Inc., the women's clothing chain he'd founded with his wife, Helene, in 1983, was on...

Wisdom To Live By.(A)(Leaders & Success)
September 6, 2000... {TEXT} Wisdom To Live By . {TEXT} ON TOUGH TIMES It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. . Great necessities call out great virtues. Abigail Adams, ...

Computers Made Plain As School Year Starts, Some Parents Ponder Need For A New Computer.(A)(Computers Made Plain)
September 6, 2000... Byline: Lynn Walford Investor's Business Daily As students across the nation head back to school, many parents hope new personal computers will give their kids an edge. Education is one of the big reasons consumers buy PCs. But...

WorldCom Eyes Internet Hosting With Digex Buy Phone giant grabs Intermedia, which is losing money, for its controlling stake in Digix Inc., a host of corporate Web sites.(A)(Internet & Technology)
September 6, 2000... Byline: Reinhardt Krause Investor's Business Daily WorldCom Inc. Tuesday sped up its move to manage Web sites for large businessesby acquiring Intermedia Communications Inc. and its Internet services unit, Digex Inc. The...

Siemens' Cell-Phone Gains Prompt A Return To U.S.(A)(Internet & Technology)
September 6, 2000... Byline: Reinhardt Krause Investor's Business Daily As the top three mobile phone makers stumble, look who's gaining traction: Siemens AG. Siemens used its home turf in Germany as a launching pad. This year, it grabbedthe No. 3...

America Online On Mobile Push.(A)(TEKWIRE)
September 6, 2000... NEW YORK (Reuters) - America Online Inc., the largest U.S. Internet service provider, is talking with several firms in search of deals to help it tap into the booming mobile phone marketplace, AOL executive Dennis Patrick said in an interview...

Compaq Treats Itself To Makeover In Effort To Drop PC Kingpin Image.(A)(Company In The News)
September 6, 2000... Byline: Patrick Seitz Investor's Business Daily Compaq Computer Corp. is getting an image makeover. The Houston-based computing giant recently brought in a team of marketing and communications executives to spread the word that...

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE Sears Renews Bid To Click With Customers.(A)(Internet & Technology)
September 6, 2000... Byline: Julie Mitchell Investor's Business Daily Sears, Roebuck and Co. has been around almost 100 years. The retailer's leadersfigure that if it wants to stick around longer, it better get up to Web speed. So in July, the company...

Economic Briefs - And Abroad.(A)
September 6, 2000... Germany's 'Wise Man' Says Many Causes For Weak Euro No. 1 probably is the need for structural reforms in the euro zone's top three economies - Germany, France and Italy - says Horst Siebert, president of the Kiel economic research...

Economic Briefs - At Home.(A)
September 6, 2000... Struggling Retailers Target Preteen Shoppers' Dollars Fueled by fierce competition, retailers are racing to appeal to the "tween" crowd of 20 million 8-to-12-year-olds. Analysts say retailers are trying to getan early piece of the 31...

Germany's Recovery Feels Threatened By Central Bank's Interest Rate Hikes Ten-month, 200 basis-point rate climb might well offset German tax cuts - which aren't huge.(A)(Business & The Economy)
September 6, 2000... Byline: Charles Oliver Investor's Business Daily Europe may finally be moving away from its long tradition of high taxes, incomesmoothing and vast social safety net. The socialist government in Germany cut taxes this year. Now...

Japan's Factories Think Small To Survive.(A)(Business & The Economy)
September 6, 2000... By The Associated Press Four years ago, things didn't look good for Tadao Kato's once-thriving machinery company. Profit was plummeting, Japan's economy was slumping and clients were looking overseas for cheaper suppliers. But Nissin...

SCHEDULE.(A)
September 6, 2000... Calendar Of Economic Indicators WEDNESDAY Nonfarm Productivity: Second-quarter revised report (median forecast 5.5%), 8:30 a.m. EDT. Unit Labor Costs: Second-quarter revised report (median forecast -0.3%), 8:30 a.m. EDT. BTM...

SCANSOURCE INC. / Greenville, South Carolina Distributor Heads To Internet For Sales Growth.(A)(The New America)
September 6, 2000... Byline: Nancy Gondo Investor's Business Daily Like many other companies, ScanSource Inc. is going to the Internet for growth. ScanSource's latest venture, ChannelMax, is the company's Internet services arm. Run as a separate...

APOLLO GROUP INC. / Phoenix, Arizona Educator Hits Markets With Online Instruction.(A)(The New America)
September 6, 2000... Byline: Jonah Keri Investor's Business Daily Apollo Group Inc. plans to make an initial public offering for its online business in the next few days in a move that could take the firm to new heights. Apollo has filed a...

EOG RESOURCES INC. / Houston, Texas Cast Off, Energy Firm Recovers And Thrives.(A)(The New America)
September 6, 2000... Byline: Marilyn Alva Investor's Business Daily It was cast off by a powerful parent and stripped of a prized asset. But a yearlater, EOG Resources Inc. is thriving as a free agent. The market value of the oil and natural gas...

The Real Most Active - NYSE.(A)(The Real Most Active - NYSE)
September 6, 2000... The Real Most Active Blue chips overcame tech losses to finish with a modest gain Tuesday. The Dow industrials rose 21.83 points, or 0.2%, to 11,260.61. Strip out Nasdaq-listed Intel's big slide, and the blue-chip average would have...

Look For Key Volume Clues In Weekly Charts.(A)(Investor's Corner)
September 6, 2000... Byline: Christina Wise Investor's Business Daily Like a good road map, a weekly chart can give a clear picture of where a stock is headed - if you know how to read it. Weekly price-and-volume charts help you judge the soundness of...

Stocks In The News - NYSE.(A)
September 6, 2000... After working its way through a rather short seven-and-a-half week base, International Rectifier finished Monday 6% off its old high. Its current consolidation comes on top of the 16-week base it cleared in June. On Friday, the chipmaker...

The Big Picture.(A)(The Big Picture)
September 6, 2000... THE BIG PICTURE The market returned from summer vacation Tuesday but Intel spoiled the homecoming. The big chipmaker got hit with a downgrade, which cast a pall over the tech market. Analyst Ashok Kumar of U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray...

The Smoke Screen: Like Big Tobacco, Hollywood Denies It Harms Children.(A)(View Point)
September 6, 2000... By Michael Medved Talk about an industry that offers a sitting duck for some sweeping new class-action lawsuit. Consider the eerie resemblance between the big tobacco companies and the major Hollywood conglomerates. For years, both...

Bush Unveils His Plan For Medicare, But Some Ask: Is It Just Gore Lite?(A)(National Issue)
September 6, 2000... Byline: Peter Cleary and Kevin Butler Investor's Business Daily Not to be outdone by his opponent, GOP nominee George W. Bush yesterday promised to reform Medicare and provide prescription drugs to needy seniors. Bush said he...

A 'ME-TOO' REPUBLICAN PLAN.(A)(Editorial)
September 6, 2000... George Bush had a chance to distinguish himself from his rival by offering a real alternative to Al Gore's Medicare prescription drug plan. Instead, he's unveiled a softer version of the vice president's proposal. Bush had been hearing the...

BUSH'S UNSCRIPTED REMARKS.(A)(Editorial)
September 6, 2000... George Bush's vulgar remark about Adam Clymer, political reporter for The New York Times, has roiled the pundit class into its usual self-righteous frenzy. But intemperate as Bush's name-calling might have been, it's understandable. Bush,...

Enhanced Index Funds Aim A Little High Some Are Sector-Neutral Stock Pickers; Others Use Derivatives.(B)(Making Money In Mutuals)
September 6, 2000... Byline: Claire Mencke Investor's Business Daily Enhanced index funds are designed to beat the averages on which they're based. But many of them don't. The reasons: Some of the methods used to enhance their returns over their base...

FMI Focus Takes The Road Less Traveled Fund, Up 41% This Year, Likes HNC, Retek, Viasystems.(B)(Making Money In Mutuals)
September 6, 2000... Byline: Leo Fasciocco Investor's Business Daily Rick Lane likes to find the less obvious plays in an obvious growth area. He runs FMI Focus Fund, which was up 41% this year going into Tuesday. "We are very sensitive to...

The Real Most Active - NASDAQ.(B)(The Real Most Active - NASDAQ)
September 6, 2000... The Real Most Active Intel and Ciena led techs lower on faster trade Tuesday. After climbing for the past five weeks, the Nasdaq retreated 91.15 points, or 2.2%, to 4143.18. Volume swelled 13% to 1.67 billion shares. Losers led...