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Investors backed away from multinational companies as the dollar unexpectedly rebounded. Investors refocused on stocks of smaller and mid-sized companies and high tech firms. Blue Chip stocks fell and technology and small cap stocks strengthened, pushing the Nasdaq index up 2.04 to a record high of 1,031.28. For the week, the index finished up 27.17, an increase of 2.7 percent. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 13.03 to 4, 617.60. In moderate trading, advances led declines, 1207 to 996 on a volume of 312 million shares. The S & P 500 closed at 559.21, up 0.17. In London, gold...
...grand gesture he erased much of the conventional wisdom about his style and vision: the heart surgery that was supposed to have mellowed him turns out to have made him even tougher; the egomaniac who was accused of driving away anyone talented enough to threaten his regime embraces Cap Cities' formidable president, Robert Iger, and his team; the tightwad who would never buy retail or take the big gamble for fear of making the big mistake goes and seals the deal of the year. "It took last year for it to be revealed that he wasn't warm and fuzzy...
When dinner was over, Eisner went to the law firm Dewey Ballantine to iron out the final niceties of Disney's $19 billion deal to buy Capital Cities/ABC. And next morning, when he and Cap Cities chairman Thomas Murphy arrived on Good Morning America to stun the world with news of their merger, it was tempting to view Eisner's triumph as the kind of danouement usually reserved for the last 10 minutes of a Disney movie. Wall Street whooped at the deal, which united Disney's theme parks and movie and television studios with ABC's gold-plated network...
...came just days after the union imposed an Aug. 8 deadline to reach an agreement; otherwise, the union says it will decertify itself, which would free players to pursue an antitrust suit against the owners in court. Talks reportedly disintegrated over the possible elimination of exceptions to the salary cap...
...result of the lobbying action was that representatives introduced Sections 225 and 226 to the House budget bill. The addition, which was sponsored by Rep. Daniel Bosley (D-North Adams) provides an education exemption to the two-year welfare cap proposed by Weld provided that "the recipient is enrolled in an educational program or institution of higher learning approved by the department...