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Identifies non-technology stock investment opportunities, as of mid-February, 2000. Evidence of the disparity between the performance of technology and other stocks; Market sectors in decline; Expected timetable for the revival of so-called Old Economy stocks; Analysis of fundamentals for AMR, Berkshire Hathaway, Bestfoods, Emerson Electric, Fannie Mae, May Department Stores, Philip Morris, SBC Communications, Schering-Plough and U.S. Bancorp.

The author discusses the decline in blue chip stock prices in the U.S. during the week of August 5, 2013. Drops posted by the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Standard & Poor's 500 stock index are described. According to some traders, August has been the worst-performing month since 1987. The slight recovery of broad market averages from trade data suggesting that China's economy could be stabilizing is also mentioned.

The article discusses investment opportunities in the low stock prices of financial institutions such as banks. It describes how banks are generating good profits and developing capital bases in spite of problems such as poor trading conditions and low interest rates. The financial results of several banking companies for the third quarter of 2011 are also considered, including JP Morgan Chase, Fifth Third Bancorp, and Comerica.

Reports on the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Nasdaq for the week ending October 23, 2000. Description of certain stock prices including IBM and J.P. Morgan; Discussion of a possible merger between General Electric and Honeywell; Sales of stock in Dell Computer; Others.

Presents information on the United States stock exchange and several companies as of July 17, 2000. Renewed investor faith in the performance of technology stocks due to revenue announcements by Yahoo! Inc. and Juniper Networks; Stock prices of the tobacco industry following litigation in the US; Possible successors for Jack Welch at General Electric (GE); Several A-plus stocks.

Presents several articles related to stocks in the United States. Effects of the depreciation of cyclical stocks; How low-priced cyclicals are attracting investors; Depreciation of Honeywell Corp.'s stock after saying that its profits for the quarter would fall shy of expectations; Effect of the depreciation of Internet stocks on Yahoo.

Comments on business and financial news as of June 12, 2000. Results of the Microsoft ruling which lead to a gain in Nasdaq points; Reasons for the drop in Procter & Gamble stock; Reasons for the merger of Procter & Gamble and Unilever; Rumor that Philip Morris will buy Nabisco; Court ruling in favor of Transkaryotic Therapies (TKT), a biotechnology company; Effects of ruling on TKT's stock holdings.

Reports on the decline of major market indices due to widespread belief that the United States Federal Reserve Board will continue to raise interest rates. Loss of the Dow Jones Industrial Average; Strength of corporate profit growth; Individual stocks that have lost valuation; Other details related to stock exchanges.

Focuses on activity in United States stock markets during the week ending April 15, 2000. Decline of the Dow Jones industrial average; Technology stocks that contributed to the decline of the Nasdaq composite index, including CMGI, Broadvision and Echostar Communications; Level of the Nasdaq and chronology of the selloff; Economic impact; Comparison to previous declines; Advance in the price of AMR; Ford Motor's recapitalization plan.

Comments on stock market activity during the week ended March 11, 2000. Disparity between so-called New Economy and Old Economy, or technology and non-technology stocks; Advance of the Nasdaq Composite Index; Contribution of the decline of Procter & Gamble (P&G) to the decline of the Dow Jones industrial average; Brokerage stocks; Veritas Software; Seagate Technology; American Software; Berkshire Hathaway.

Focuses on United States stock market activity during the week ended March 4, 2000. Advance of the Dow Jones industrial average, and stocks that contributed to the advance of the Nasdaq composite index; Index stock response to US economic indicators; Response to Palm's initial public offering; Bank stocks, and profit warning from Bank One; Takeover targets; Disparity between biotechnology and pharmaceutical stocks; Other stocks.

Comments on the performance of financial markets in the week ended February 12, 2000. Industrial stocks that contributed to the decline of the Dow Jones industrial average; Technology stocks that contributed to the advance of the Nasdaq composite index; Impact of rising oil prices; Drug stocks, including Merck; Cisco Systems' market valuation; Insurance stocks; Berkshire Hathaway; Internet companies.

Focuses on stock market activity during the week prior to December 13, 1999. Impact of Internet stocks on the advance of the Nasdaq composite index; Decline of the Dow Jones industrial average and the Standard & Poor's (S&P) 500-stock index; European technology stocks; Initial public offerings (IPO) of VA Linux Systems and FreeMarkets; Technology stock valuations; Other strong stocks; Brokerages and banks; Other stocks.

Comments on United States stock market activity during the week ended October 23, 1999. Contribution of financial and drug stocks to the recovery of the Dow Jones industrial average; Positive earnings reports; Stock disappointments, including Gillette and IBM; Financial stocks; General Motors; Berkshire Hathaway; Decline of tobacco stocks; Delta Air Lines' acquisition of Comair Holdings.

Comments on the United States stock market during the week ended October 9, 1999. Contributions to advances of stock price indexes; Technology stocks; Performance of drug, telecommunications, retail and beverage stocks; Small- and mid-capitalization stocks; General Motors Vice Chairman Harry Pearce's response to speculation about divestiture of Hughes Electronics; Oil prices; Junk bonds.

Summarizes United States stock market activity during the week ended August 20, 1999. Impact of gains in Merck, Walt Disney and others on the Dow Jones industrial average; Impact of dollar valuation on the drug stock rally; Profit outlook; Consumer stocks; Impact of declines on the Standard & Poor's 500 stock index; Asarco merger outlook.

Comments on United States stock market activity during the week ended August 7, 1999. Impact of the agreement between Union Carbide and Dow Chemical on the Dow Jones industrial average; Performance of the Standard & Poor's (S&P) 500 stock index and the Nasdaq composite index; Impact of declines in the bond market; Internet industry; Investor concerns; Brokerage stocks; Retailers; Flowers Industries; Other topics.

Comments on United States stock market activity during the week ended July 10, 1999. Record levels reached by the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the Standard & Poor's 500 Index and the Nasdaq Stock Market; Market influences; Expectations of second quarter earnings reports; Outlook for bond performance; Performance of individual stocks, including General Electric (GE), Dell Computer, Amgen, Waste Management and others; Tobacco; Banks; General Motors; DuPont; Market breadth.

Comments on stock market activity during the week ended July 17, 1999. Microsoft Corporation's contribution to the record level reached by the Nasdaq Composite Index; Cyclical stocks that contributed to the decline of the Dow Jones industrial average; Microsoft's valuation; Earnings reports from Coca-Cola, Gillette and Intel; Laszlo Birinyi's predictions and recommendations; Energy stocks; Ford Motor Company; Other stocks.

Comments on stock market activity during the week ended June 5, 1999. Factors in the late-week market rally; Indexes; Performance of technology stocks, including Cisco Systems, and pharmaceuticals, including Eli Lilly; Comparison of stock and bond prices; Divergence of bonds and utility stocks; Internet stocks; Brokerages; Tobacco stocks.

Comments on United States stock market activity during the week ended May 29, 1999. Comparison of stock prices to Morgan Stanley Dean Witter strategist Byron Wien's model; Stock price index declines, including the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the Standard & Poor's (S&P) 500 Stock Index and the Nasdaq composite index; Internet and other stocks that declined; Earnings outlook; Bank and brokerage stocks; IMS Health's business and stock performance.

Comments on United States stock market activity during the week ended May 1, 1999. Resurgence of industrial stocks, including Alcoa, Caterpillar, Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing; Performance of the Dow Jones industrial average and the Standard & Poor's 500 stock index; Coca-Cola Co.; Nasdaq composite index; Value among cyclical stocks; Brokerages; Oil stocks; Pharmaceuticals; Internet; Airlines.

Comments on United States stock market activity during the week ended April 3, 1999. Performance of so-called new economy stocks, including America Online, Microsoft, Cisco Systems and Amazon.com; Indexes, including the Nasdaq composite, the Dow Jones industrials and the Standard & Poor's 500; Implications of America Online's surpassing Coca-Cola in market value; Tobacco stocks; Mergers; Bond yields; Other items.

Comments on United States stock market activity during the week ended March 27, 1999. Microsoft's valuation and comparison to other US corporations; Earnings outlook; Performance details; Proximity of the Dow Jones industrial average to the 10,000 level and performance for the week; Performance of individual Dow and other stocks; Impact of comments made by Goldman Sachs strategist Abby Joseph Cohen; Other items.

Comments on United States stock market activity during the week ending March 20, 1999. Failure of the Dow Jones industrial average to finish above the 10,000 level and performance details; Impact of IBM share price performance; Deterioration in technology, drugs, telephone and food industries; Analysis of market breadth; Details of the performance of individual stocks including IBM, Fleet Financial, Berkshire Hathaway, Clorox and others.

Focuses on United States insurer Chubb. February 1999 announcement of fourth-quarter profits; Share price as of February 1999 and comparison to summer 1998; Effect of changing US financial services industry regulations on Chubb; Possibility of the company's acquisition; Problems facing Chubb and the US property-casualty industry; Chubb personal insurance customer demographics.

Reviews United States stock market activity during the week ended March 6, 1999. Level of the Dow Jones industrial average and factors in its advance; Impact of a reported rise in US unemployment and wages; Year-to-date performance of the Dow; Warning from investor Warren Buffet; Performance of technology and financial stocks; Consumer stocks; Atlantic Richfield's dividend; Walt Disney Co.; Other topics.

Focuses on United States stock market activity during the week ended February 13, 1999. Role of Dell Computer in the selloff that ended the week; Decline of the Dow Jones industrial average, the Standard & Poor's 500 stock index, and the Nasdaq composite index and other indexes; Evidence of weakness in the bond market; Internet stocks; Other items.

Comments on United States stock market activity during the week ended January 30, 1999. Advances of major stock market indexes including the Standard & Poor's 500 and the Nasdaq Composite; Effect of lagging industrial stocks on the performance of the Dow Jones industrial average; Announcements of stock splits; Technology stocks; Activity in energy stocks; Sale of ten year bonds by Amazon.com; Other topics.

Comments on United States stock prices during the week ended January 23, 1999. Performance of technology stocks; Performance of the Dow Jones industrial average, the Standard & Poor's 500 stock index, the Nasdaq composite and other indexes; Performance of individual stocks including Microsoft, General Electric, Amazon.com, Coca-Cola, Merck, Berkshire Hathaway and others.

Looks at activity on United States stock markets during the week ended January 9, 1999. Strength of industrial stocks; Comparison of the Standard & Poor's 500 stock index to the Dow Jones industrial average; Impact of the government's monthly jobs report on cyclical stocks; Comparison of Morgan Stanley's cyclical and consumer stock indexes; Identification of the so-called Dogs of the Dow for 1999; Pharmaceutical, Internet, banking, defense and other stocks.

Comments on United States financial news for November 30, 1998. Advance of major market indexes, including the Standard & Poor's 500, the Nasdaq, and the Dow Jones industrial average; Gains in drug and technology industry stocks; Merger and takeover activity, including America Online's deal to purchase Netscape Communications; Possibility of a merger between US oil companies Exxon and Mobil; 1998 returns on the Dow stocks; Other topics.

Looks at stocks and United States stock market activity during the week ended November 14, 1998. Growing doubt about whether the economy is as robust as indicated by third-quarter readings; Stock index performance, including the Dow industrials, Standard & Poor's 500, Nasdaq composite and Russell 2000; Speculation about an interest rate cut; Mutual funds; Dell Computer; Internet initial public offerings; Other stocks.

Comments on factors affecting United States financial markets for the week ending October 23, 1998. Continuation of the market advance spurred by the Federal Reserve's unexpected interest rate cut; Performance of the Dow Jones industrial average and the Nasdaq composite index; Performance of individual stocks including Microsoft and Coca-Cola; Overview of third quarter results; Royal Dutch-Shell Group performance; Other items.

Discusses activity of United States financial markets during the week ending September 26, 1998. Advance of the Dow Jones industrial average and the Nasdaq Composite Index; The Long-Term Capital Management bailout as evidence of the Federal Reserve's concern about risks to the US financial system; Performance of individual stocks, including Dell Computer, Atlantic Richfield and America Online; Comments.

Focuses on performance of United States stocks during the week ending September 7, 1998. Definition of bear-market performance; Details of the Dow Jones industrial average during the week; View of Morgan Stanley strategist Byron Wien that the worst damage may be over; Details of his model; Drop in bond yields as a hint of recession; Government data that suggests the economy remains resilient; Analysis.

Presents highlights of United States stock trading activity for the week ending July 17, 1998. New record highs in the markets; Strong earnings reports by Microsoft, Eastman Kodak, Alcoa and others; Gains by high-tech companies such as Lucent Technologies and Dell Computer; Nifty Fifty growth stocks; Dow Jones Averages; Nasdaq; Gillette earnings; Pepsico growth predictions.

Reports on United States stock market activity for the week ending July 10, 1998. Gains in the Nasdaq and S&P 500 index pushed by large stocks; Earning reports; Rates of foreign purchases of US stocks; Cigarette stocks RJR Nabisco and Philip Morris gain; Varied performance of food and consumer stocks; Hershey Foods falls; Berkshire Hathaway buys General Re; Sirrom Capital drops on the New York Stock Exchange.

Looks at United States stock market activity for the week ending June 22, 1998. Market swings and sharp movement in currency and bond markets; The Standard & Poor 500 (S&P 500) stock index; Impact of particular companies on the Dow Jones industrial average; Shift to trophy stocks; Berkshire Hathaway's acquisition of US-based reinsurance company General Re; Gap between the S&P 500 and the Russell 2000 index; Mutual funds; Other items.

Focuses on the performances of stocks for the week of April 27, 1998. The importance in watching how earnings in the first quarter of 1998 compare with those in last year's first quarter; The return of technology stocks; Internet-related stocks; Drug stocks; Consumer stocks; Tobacco stocks.

Reports on the stock prices of companies in the United States with yields of 4.5 percent or more. Includes the American Brands; ARCO Chemical; Atlantic Richfield.

The article reports on the stock market performance of oil companies as of February 2015. Topics discussed include the significant downturn in oil prices beginning in the last quarter of 2014 and the defensive strategies employed by energy stocks to counter this price drop. The production goal of ExxonMobil and the launching of the Gorgon liquefied natural gas project of Chevron are then mentioned.