For the last decade, the new bottom line for the corporation has been to increase the stock price in as short a time as possible. It is the measure, the countermeasure, the golden rule, and the ruthless rod by which a corporation will thrive or die. Image, marketability, and great ...
In Asia, the price in life paid due to hurricanes has been enormous. As late as 1970, cyclone storm tides along the coast of what is now Bangladesh killed hundreds of thousands of persons. Eleven thousand people perished in a storm that struck that region in 1984, and even more in a ...
The “Dow composite,” which Dow Jones began publishing in 1934, is simply a price-weighted average of 65 stocks (the 30 industrial, 20 transportation, and 15 utility companies). The composite average is designed to offer a broader stock market snapshot than the three component averages. Ho...