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Factoid Index Q1 2000

January Factoid Part 1
 No Index Is an Island - Gretchen Morgenson NY Times
 Some Popular Mutual Funds Are Dumping Tech Shares - WSJ
 Total-Return on General Stock Funds - WSJ
 Standard & Poor's Stock Picks - Tom Walker, Atlanta J-C
 Best- and worst-performing U.S. industry groups - WSJ
 Market Boxscores by Index - WSJ
 Q4'99 Fund Performance - Morningstar.com
 Net Sources for Small Cap Info - Bill Deener, Knight/Ridder
 A Revolution Built by Ford's Factory - Tom Redburn, NY Times**
 The Decade on Wall Street - Tom Walker, Atlanta J-C
 Update: Capitalism in Eastern Europe - John Reed, WSJ
 Internet & Banks Help Japan Rebound - Bill Spindle, WSJ
 Optimism Boosts Bovespa to Record High - Chris Kraul, LA Times
 Changes in Euro Capitalism - Thomas Kamm, WSJ


January Factoid Part 2
 Some Valuation Stats - WSJ
 Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Fed? - Jacob Schlesinger, WSJ
 Broadband Internet: Phone vs. Cable- Seth Schiesel, NY Times
 Technology Changing Bond Market - NY Times & Bloomberg
 Bond Investors Demanding More? - Tom Petruno, LA Times
 Cars for Super-Highway to Reach Half-Million - NY Times
 Broadband Slow to Catch On - Jon Van, Chicago Tribune
 New Drug Cures Cold? - Daniel Haney, Nando
 Fund Advice On-line - Miriam Hill, Knight-Ridder
 8 Reasons to Fear 2000 - Cedd Moses, CBS MarketWatch
 Volatility Rises, Implication Fuzzy - Caroline Baum, Bloomberg
 Brokerage Firms Mutuals' Lag Market - Richard Oppel, NY Times


January Factoid Part 3
 Reasons to Cheer for Tech Crash - Tom Petruno, LA Times
 More Fund Selection Data - Paul Lim, LA Times
 Tip: Read Trade Magazines - Fred Barbash, Washington Post
 Selected Comments on ECI GDP Data - Baum, DeRosa & Kudlow
 Kudlow Forecasts Lower Bond Rates - Lawrence Kudlow, CNBC
 Smart/Stupid Ways to Reduce Debt - Liz Pulliam Weston, LA Times
 Challenges of Reduced Treasury Supply - G Zuckerman, WSJ
 Wien's 10 `Surprises' - John Dorfman, Bloomberg
 Nasdaq, S&P Moving in Opposite Directions - Greg Ip, WSJ
 401(k) Update - Seattle Times
 A Good Omen for the S&P - NY Times
 Study Shows Value in Being a Contrarian - LA Times **
 Greenspan Speaks Softly, With Big Stick - Floyd Norris, NY Times
 US Funds' Stock Holdings By Category - R Barker, Business Week
 Comments on the Yield Curve Inversion - T Mulligan, LA Times
 Fed Report on US Wealth - WSJ, LA Times, FRB


February Factoid Part 1
 Top Brands Don't Have Staying Power - WSJ
 When to 'Break-Up' With A Bad Fund - Charles Jaffe, Boston Globe
 Emulating US Isn't Always Good for Japan - C Baum, Bloomberg
 Labor Market Forecast - John Lonski, Moody's
 Treasury's Contraction Stokes Corp Debt - John Lonski, Moody's
 Update/Data on Europe - WSJ & John Lonski, Moody's
 A Drop in Stocks Could Ignite Inflation? - Greg Ip, WSJ**
 Beware Retirement Calculator Estimates - Bridget O'Brian, WSJ **
 A Warning Signal - Phil Serafino, Bloomberg
 The Taylor Rule - David Wessel, WSJ
 New Hampshire Exit Poll Data - Pew Research
 Bond Mkt Update - Kudlow, Gerlach, Uchitelle, Norris, Zuckerman
 The Employment Report - NY Times, Barrons, AP
 Desperately Searching Substitutes to Treasurys - WSJ
 Why the Boom Has Lasted - Schlesinger, Epstein & Zandi**
 Crazy Market Is Tough to Beat - Jonathan Clements,WSJ
 Small-Cap Stocks Earnings Improve - WSJ & Barrons
 Full Prisons Lower the Unemployment Rate - WSJ
 Spending Not Straining Household Debt Service - John Lonski


February Factoid Part 2
 Higher Productivity Causes Inflation? - Caroline Baum, Bloomberg
 Funds Lack Cash to Break a Fall - Chet Currier, Bloomberg
 Money Managers Favor Europe Over US/UK - Bloomberg
 Small Is Beautiful - Gretchen Morgenson, NY Times
 An 'Unpopular' Strategy - Peter Di Teresa, Morningstar
 Pension Funds Can Rev Up Germany - James Flanigan, LA Times
 Larry Summers: Hero or Villain? - Floyd Norris, NYT**
 Top Brands Don't Have Staying Power - WSJ


February Factoid Part 3
 'Supply' Causing Slowdown? - I Kellner, CBS MarketWatch**
 No-Names Worth Knowing - Fred Barbash, Washington Post
 Town Ain't Big Enough for the Both of Us - T Petruno, LA Times**
 Jesse Livermore's Rules - Greg Heberlein, Seattle Times
 Index Funds Are Losing Attention - Pui-Wing Tam, WSJ
 Sizing up the Dow- Atlanta Journal-Constitution
 Comparing Valuations Past and Present - WSJ
 Greenspan Clarifies Past Remarks on Productivity - NY Times
 Slump Can Alter Investor Psychology - Jonathan Clements, WSJ
 Amex Is Back, Thanks to ETFs - Lucchetti and Brown, WSJ
 Corporate Taxes Fall, Citizen's Rise - David Johnston, NY Times
 Comglomerate Performance - Richard Teitelbaum, NY Times
 The Halloween Indicator - Mark Hulbert, NY Times


March Factoid Part 1
 A Tale of Two Stock Markets - Gretchen Moregenson, NY Times
 Health-Care Costs Rise - WSJ
 Hot Lowest-Tier Issues a Bad Omen - Thomas Mulligan, LA Times
 Fund Startup FAQ's - Charles Jaffe, Boston Globe
 The Demise of Long-Held Theory - Bradford De Long, NY Times
 The 30-30 Club - John Dorfman, Bloomberg
 Surprising How Surprising Growth Is - Caroline Baum, Bloomberg
 Number of Medicaly Uninsured Rise - Paul Heldman, Bloomberg
 Closet Index Funds Look Beyond S&P - Lucchetti & Pulliam, WSJ
 It's a Narrow Market - Greg Heberlein, Seattle Times
 'What if' Questions of 1929 - Donald Ratajczak, Atlanta J-C
 Feb Jobs Report -NY Times & Wash. Post & others
 Fed Restraint Could Help Stocks - Lawrence Kudlow, CNBC**
 Equity-Income Funds Failing as Safety Nets - Aaron Lucchetti, WSJ


March Factoid Part 2
 Oil and the New Economy - Steve Liesman, WSJ
 Free Mutual Fund Screening Tools - Paul Lim, LA Times
 Lessons From School of Hard Knocks - Jonathan Clements, WSJ
 The S&P vs. the World - Michael Burt, The Dismal Scientist
 Stats: The 20 Largest US Stocks - John Dorfman, Bloomberg
 China Update - Karby Leggett, WSJ
 Productivity Shows Impact of Computers - L Uchitelle, NY Times
 Brace Yourself for Q-1 Statements - Paul Lim, LA Times
 New Lasso for the Sector Corral - Sara Robinson, NY Times
 Nasdaq: You Can't Buy It All - Paul Lim, LA Times


** denotes a 'don't miss' article

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