When we wrote about Warner Lambert (WLA; NYSE, $138.75; 1.1% yield) in this column in April ("Ewe and Your Money: How to Profit from Discoveries"), analysts projected that the stock would hit $120 ...
Flip open the paper on any given day, and there's a headline of yet another merger, another industry that's benefiting from consolidation. Take Boeing, for example, which just agreed to acquire riv...
Who says you can't beat the market? Over the past 20 years, an index of some 200 companies controlled by members of the founding family was up 16.6%--more than two percentage points higher than the...
Like Old Man River, corporate America's profits seem a force of nature by now--rolling along mightily from one year to the next. Earnings of companies in the FORTUNE 500 rose 13.4% in 1995, the fou...
WORRIED ABOUT recession? Fear not, say the nation's top economists. Their consensus is that GDP will grow 2% this year, just a hair below last year's 2.1%. They base that optimism on continued stre...
RIGHT BEFORE THE 1992 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, this column named the stocks we believed would benefit most from a Clinton victory. Our picks included waste-management businesses such as WMX Technolog...
Bet you wish you had snapped up a few hundred shares of Chrysler back in November when Kirk Kerkorian, its largest shareholder, started badgering the company about boosting the stock price. Only th...
Economic growth should continue at a respectable 2.5% or better rate in 1995. But within that broad trend, some industries will reap big gains, while others will suffer the woes of higher interest ...
When we wrote about Warner Lambert (WLA; NYSE, $138.75; 1.1% yield) in this column in April ("Ewe and Your Money: How to Profit from Discoveries"), analysts projected that the stock would hit $120 ...
Flip open the paper on any given day, and there's a headline of yet another merger, another industry that's benefiting from consolidation. Take Boeing, for example, which just agreed to acquire riv...
Who says you can't beat the market? Over the past 20 years, an index of some 200 companies controlled by members of the founding family was up 16.6%--more than two percentage points higher than the...
Like Old Man River, corporate America's profits seem a force of nature by now--rolling along mightily from one year to the next. Earnings of companies in the FORTUNE 500 rose 13.4% in 1995, the fou...
WORRIED ABOUT recession? Fear not, say the nation's top economists. Their consensus is that GDP will grow 2% this year, just a hair below last year's 2.1%. They base that optimism on continued stre...
RIGHT BEFORE THE 1992 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, this column named the stocks we believed would benefit most from a Clinton victory. Our picks included waste-management businesses such as WMX Technolog...
Bet you wish you had snapped up a few hundred shares of Chrysler back in November when Kirk Kerkorian, its largest shareholder, started badgering the company about boosting the stock price. Only th...
Economic growth should continue at a respectable 2.5% or better rate in 1995. But within that broad trend, some industries will reap big gains, while others will suffer the woes of higher interest ...
If someone offered you an extremely low-risk way to earn at least 9% a year, you'd probably tell them they were all wet. But that's more or less what you get from one oft-overlooked stock group: wa...
Drug company stocks could use a good jolt of uppers. As could drug company stockholders, who have watched in dismay as uncertainties about health-care "reform" and price revolts by big customers sl...
Some privatization issues break the mold. Take a look at Sweden's Pharmacia, one of the 20 largest drug companies in the world, with sales last year of $3.5 billion. Not only are drug companies rar...
IF EVER A COMPANY earned its reputation as a category killer, it's Toys ''R'' Us. With huge selection, low prices, and superior logistics, this giant has crushed competitors from Long Island to Los...
INTER-TEL Inter-Tel is discovering that small customers can mean big business. The company, in Chandler, Arizona, designs and sells telecommunications equipment, software, and services to offices w...
Stocks are roiling: The economy is past the recovery stage and is defiantly expanding, bringing with it fears of rising interest rates and renewed inflation. But not every company is quaking in its...
The U.S. stock market is looking increasingly shaky now that interest rates are rising and threatening to slow the flow of cash from money funds and CDs into stocks. By contrast, share prices in ma...
These days fewer Americans seem to care whether their soda comes in a Coke bottle or a Cott can. But in China, Coke still has plenty of moxie -- as do other brand-name biggies that have run head-on...
All in all, the first half was about as good as small investors could reasonably hope for. After expanding at a 4% annual rate in last year's second half, the economy slowed to an estimated 1.6% gr...
Most experts were caught off guard by the recent explosive rise in gold-mining shares. The investors who scored -- with gains of up to 100% -- were those prescient few who bought mining stocks late...
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