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In December 2003
Dividend Stocks Could Become Favorites in '04 - Ken Brown, WSJ
Myopia and Loss Aversion: Behavioral Finance - Drew DeSilver, Seattle Times **
Market Overreactions: Behavioral Finance -Drew DeSilver, Seattle Times **
What Accounting Should Be - Jeff Brown, Philadelphia Inquirer
Market Returns to be Low for Years to Come - Ian McDonald, WSJ
Adding Hard Assets Helps - Scott Burns, Dallas Morning News
Commodities are Hot - Sender & McKay, WSJ
Farm Belt Becomes Driver For the Overall Economy - Scott Kilman, WSJ
Reverse Mortgage Update - Jonathan Clements, WSJ
Investors Prefer Stocks in the News - Mark Hulbert, NY Times **
The Effect of Attention and News on the [Stock] Buying Behavior - Barber & Odean
Are Small Investors Naive? - Ulrike Malmendier & Devin Shanthikumar
Post-Earnings-Announcement Drift - Devin Shanthikumar
Small Trader Reactions to Consecutive Earnings Surprises - Devin Shanthikumar
Do Individual Investors Drive Post-Earnings Drift? Hirshleifer, Myers, Myers & Teoh
Finding Success With a Plain-Vanilla Strategy - Jonathan Clements, WSJ
Restaurants on a Hiring Spree - Sherri Day, NY Times
Does the "Santa Claus Rally" Exist? Mark Hulbert, CBS.MarketWatch
Bullish View Gains Credibility - Tom Petruno, LA Times
PMI Comes in Strong - Caroline Baum, Bloomberg
PMI Leap Is Good News for Jobs, but Bad Investors? Floyd Norris, NY Times
A Quick Review of the Major Indexes - Scott Burns, Dallas Morning News
An Answer to the Slow Job Growth Riddle - Jon Hilsenrath, WSJ
Fund 'Adoptions' Increase in 03 - Daisy Maxey, WSJ
Obscure Leading Indicators - Andrew Blackman, WSJ
Supply and Demand on Wall Street - E.S. Browning, WSJ
Using EDGER for Fun & Profit - Loeb & January, CBS MarketWatch
Falling P/E Ratios: It's a Good Thing - E.S. Browning, WSJ
It's "Game Time" for Stocks - Stacey Bradford, SmartMoney
The Next Big Thing - Gregory Zuckerman, WSJ
Wealthy are Dropping Mutual Funds - Dow Jones Newswires
Where to Read The Economic Tea Leaves On-line - David Wessel, WSJ
In December Scandal Update
Investor Charged With Fraud in Fund Trading - B Masters, Washington Post
Regulation Is Key to Lowering Fund Fees - Ian McDonald, WSJ
Janus' Restitution - Ian McDonald, WSJ
U.S. Fund Troubles In Europe - Conrad De Aenlle, NY Times
ICI Study on Market Timing - Brooke Masters, Washington Post
Despite Scandal, Fund Industry Will Thrive - Ian McDonald, WSJ
MFS to be Charged - Masters, WP / Hechinger, WSJ / Thomas, NY Times
Fund Expenses are the Real Problem - Paul Farrell, CBS.MarketWatch
More Info on Fees & Expenses - Christopher Oster & Karen Damato, WSJ
Fund Scandal's Next Chapter: Stale Prices - Gretchen Morgenson, NY Times
A Different Kind of Allegation at Legg Mason - Hancock & Adams, Baltimore Sun
Will Fund Fix Be Worse than Problem? Chuck Jaffe, Boston Globe
SEC Charges Mutuals.com With Fraud - Brooke Masters, Washington Post
A Late Trading Loop-hole - Smith & Lauricella, WSJ
A History of 12b-1 Fees - Tom Petruno, LA Times
Why Growth Funds Were Tempted by Market Timers - Oster & Lauricella, WSJ
When Good Funds Go Bad: Invesco - Susan Pulliam & Tom Lauricella, WSJ
Late Trading Restitution - Riva Atlas, NY Times
Dec 2003 REIT Article Update
REITs to Slow Down in 2004 - The (Baltimore) Daily Record
National Association of Realtors 04 Projections - Tim Lemke, Washington Times
Seattle Office Update - J. Martin McOmber, Seattle Times
Office REIT Quarterly - Raymond James
Dallas Office Update - Steve Brown, Dallas Morning News
Victory Favors the REIT With the Lower Dividend - Dean Starkman, WSJ
Building Owners Finish Offices To Lure Tenants - Sheila Muto, WSJ
The High Entry-Barrier Strategy - Terry Pristin, NY Times **
Industrial Market Helped by Retailers - Ryan Chittum, WSJ
Fitch Sees Weak REIT Trends In '04 - Janet Morrissey, Dow Jones Newswires
SoCal Office and Industrial Update - Jennifer Duell, CPN
Casden Real Estate Economics Forecast - USC Lusk Center press release
Rising Rates Should Not Hurt REITs - Janet Morrissey, Dow Jones Newswires
UBS Expects Growth in Property Stocks to Slow - Steve Hays, Reuters
Philly Office Lessors Expect a Slow Rebound - H Holcomb, Philadelphia Inquirer
Multifamily Underperforms REIT Market - IREN
On the Cusp of an Office Recovery? Parke Chapman, NRIE
Dallas Retail Market Update - Reis
Mortgage Update - Neil Weilheimer, CPN
Retailers Embrace The Great Outdoors - Michael Barbaro, Washington Post
DC Retail Update - Neil Irwin, Washington Post
The Future of Retailing - The Economist
An Experiment in Stock Picking
In November 2003
Hedge Fund Returns Overstated - Mark Hulbert, NY Times
Some Lost Jobs May Never Come Back - John Berry, Washington Post
Unemployment Data - Bene Epstein, Barrons
ETF's vs Mutual Funds - Jonathan Clements, WSJ
Few Willing to Jump into Market - Gregory Robb, CBS Marketwatch
Stock-Fund Fees Gouge Small Investors - Aaron Pressman, Bloomberg News
Why Good News Isn't Sending Stocks Soaring - Jeff Brown, Philadelphia Inquirer
Manufacturing Update - Timothy Aeppel, WSJ
Funds Play Favorites - Mark Hulbert, NY Times
Closed-End Funds 101 - James Glassman, Washington Post **
Selling Points for Dividend Paying Stocks - Bill Deener, Dallas Morning News
How to Dump a Fund Without Getting Clipped - Jonathan Clements, WSJ
Fund-Firm Leakage Could Drain Market - Brown & Zuckerman, WSJ
Market Timers Aren't All Bad - Tom Petruno, LA Times
Semi-Annual Reminder to Reduce Expectations - Jonathan Clements, WSJ
Boosting Worker Output - Jon Hilsenrath, WSJ
Productivity vs Job Growth - A Krueger, Princeton professor, NY Times
Hidden Job Growth - Victor Godinez, Dallas Morning News
Employment Climbed in October - David Leonhardt, NY Times
A Money-Supply Indicator - Jack Willoughby, Barrons
Price of Oil Usually Predicts the Future Price of Stocks - Mark Hulbert, NY Times
A Discounting Apparatus? Michael Santoli, Barrons
The Cost of Cashing Out Your 401 (k) - Albert Crenshaw, Washington Post
Surge in Ocean-Shipping Rates - Robert Matthews, WSJ
Why Inflation Seems Higher - Andrew Blackman, WSJ
In November Factoids Too
Tomorrow's Elderly Fuel Health-Care Spending - Bernard Wysocki, WSJ
Scams/Theft Hidden in Phone Bills - Griff Witte, Washington Post
Check the Rules on Gift Cards - Jeff Gelles, Philadelphia Inquirer
Credit Counseling Can Be a Problem in Itself - Terri Cullen, WSJ
The Magnetic Field Is Fading - Kenneth Chang, NY Times
Major Phone Carriers Are Raising Rates - Shawn Young, WSJ
Shifting Burden of Health Care Costs - Vanessa Fuhrmans, WSJ
Post-employment Health Plans are Underfunded Too - G Moregenson, NY Times
Surgeons Make the Shoe Fit - NY Times
A Quick History of "Unemployment" - Cynthia Crossen, WSJ
Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act - Kenneth Harney, LA Times
Credit Accidents Waiting to Happen - Burns, Dallas News / Chandler, Chicago Trib
-------------- Medicare Reform Feature ---------------
Medicare Reform: The Drug Plan - Jay Hancock, Baltimore Sun
Medicare Reform: Health Savings Accounts - Albert Crenshaw, Washington Post
Medicare Reform: Private Managed-Care Plans - Milt Freudenheim, NY Times
A Quick History of 'Medicare + Choice' - Fuhrmans & Rundle, WSJ
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-------------- A Guide to the New TV Technology ---------------
A Guide to the New TVs - Seth Schiesel, NY Times
Plasma vs. LCD TVs - Walter Mossberg, WSJ
Intel Chip for Digital TV Could Remake the Market - John Markoff, NY Times
Off-the-Shelf Parts Create New Order In Electronics - Ramstad & Dvorak, WSJ
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-------------- Wal-Mart Feature ---------------
Wal-Mart: An Emulated Super-Power - A Goldman & N Cleeland, LA Times
Wal-Mart: The Search for Low Prices - Cleeland, Iritani & Marshall, LA Times
Wal-Mart vs the Grocery Unions - Cleeland & Goldman, LA Times
Wal-Mart Enters China - Tyler Marshall, LA Times
Wal-Mart in China II - Goodman & Pan, Washington Post
Wal-Mart in Mexico - Tim Weiren, NY Times
Wal-Mart in Mexico II - Alexander Hanrath, Bloomberg
Wal-Mart in Japan - Ken Belson, NY Times
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Retailers Are Becoming ATM's - Margaret Webb Pressler, Washington Post
Credit Monitoring Services - Liz Pulliam Weston, LA Times
Are You Mr Clean? Dexter Webb, WSJ
Traffic Light Switcher - Greg Schneider, Washington Post
Digital Poltergeists - Jube Shiver, LA Times
Co-Workers Can Wreck a Marriage - Sue Shellenbarger, WSJ
Annoying Rebates are Working as Intended - Bruce Mohl, Boston Globe
Card Issuers Charges Vary for Cash Advances - Jeff Gelles, Philadelphis Inquirer
November 2003 REIT Article Update
Apartment Stats [Rents on the Coasts are Rising] - David Leonhardt, NY Times
San Francisco & Silicon Valley Office Update - David Bodamer, CPN
Vacancies Could Spell Trouble for REITs - Thomas Healy, Barrons
What's a REIT to Do? Neil Irwin, Washington Post
REITs Added to the S&P 500 Are Becoming More Volatile - Dean Starkman, WSJ
Industrial REITs Rated Stable by Moody's - Sydney [Australia] Morning Herald
Private REITs are the Dominant Buyers - Terry Pristin, NY Times
Q3 Apartment, Office & Retail Update - Lloyd Lynford, Reis
An Experiment in Stock Picking
In October 2003 Factoids
GDP Surged in Q3 - Schlesinger & Hilsenrath, WSJ
More on GDP - MMS International, BusinessWeek
Low Inventories Should Spark Business Spending / Jobs - Steve Liesman, WSJ
A Downward Employment Spiral - Louis Uchitelle, NY Times
Global Interest Rates May Rise Soon - G. Thomas Sims, WSJ
Interpretting the Jobless Claims Report - Daniel Gross, NY Times
More Job Stats - Caroline Baum, Bloomberg
Should Investors Stop Investing in Funds? Chuck Jaffe, Boston Globe
Another Difference Between Boys and Girls - David Leonhardt, NY Times
Prospect Theory Re-Visited - James Glassman, Washington Post **
Big Drops are Rare but Hardly Unique - Mark Hulbert, NY Times
Dividend Stats - Jonathan Clements, WSJ
Div Tax Treatment: Short Sales & Foreign Source - Shirley Lazo, Barrons
Split Decision On Telecoms - Steven Pearlstein, Washington Post
Wireless Stocks Have Trouble Ahead - Brown & Drucker, WSJ
Five Bad Habits - Chuck Jaffe, Boston Globe **
Savings Stats on the Middle Class - Albert Crenshaw, Washington Post
Morningstar Mutual Fund Study - Ian McDonald, WSJ **
Morningstar Study II - Mark Hulbert, CBS.MarketWatch **
Rx's Promising Products & And Attractive P/Es - Zuckerman & Brown, WSJ
Unequal Access & Rx Investing - Peter Landers, WSJ
Mergers & The Rx Pipline - Gardiner Harris, NY Times
Growth vs Value vs Neutral - Mark Hulbert, NY Times
How Fund Categories Fared - Barrons
Burton Malkiel's Ten Rules - Paul Farrell, CBS.MarketWatch
The Price-to Sales Ratio - James Glassman, Washington Post
Earnings Update - Meg Richards, Associated Press
Signs of Increased Speculation - Jonathan Fuerbringer, NY Times
More Signs of Increased Speculation - Gregory Zuckerman, WSJ
Debt Burden Looms Larger for Renters - Greg Ip, WSJ
Poll on the Economy - Corbett Daly, CBS MarketWatch
The Real Drug Problem: Forgetting to Take Them - Amy Marcus, WSJ
Mutual Fund Tax Questions - Rob Wells, WSJ
October 2003 REIT Article Update
Real Estate Outlook 2004 - Ray Smith, WSJ
Moody's Reports that U.S. Office REITs Outlook Remains Negative - Reuters
Retail Update - Ryan Chittum, WSJ
Goldman Recommends Profit-Taking - Janet Morrissey, Dow Jones Newswires
Accounting Change & REITs - Janet Morrissey, Dow Jones Newswires
National Office Update - Ryan Chittum, WSJ
Sakwa's Sour Office Outlook - Christopher Edmonds, RealMoney
Phoenix Office Update - Jennifer Duell, CPN
LA Office Update - Roger Vincent, LA Times
Houston Office Update - Ralph Bivins, Houston Chronicle
Washington Office Sales Update - Neil Irwin, Washington Post
Atlanta Office Sales Update - Charles Davidson, Atlanta Business Chronicle
Office Myth About Clients Upgrading - Sheila Muto, WSJ
National Apartment Update - Ray Smith, WSJ
Apartment Update II - Neil Weilheimer, CPN
Update: A Real World Experiment in Stock Picking
Scandle in the Fund Industry
--------------------- September Scandal News ----------------------
Spitzer's Charges Illegal Trading at Mutual Funds - Meg Richards, Associated Press
What Should I Do Now? Chuck Jaffe, Boston Globe
How the Cheating Was Done - Floyd Norris, NY Times
How Canary Masked Late Trading of Funds - Christopher Oster, WSJ
A Fund Dilution Example - Jeanne Sahadi, CNN/Money
Complaint Supported By Fund Flows - Eric Baum, Fund Action
Fund Industry Takes Its Time Instituting Fair-Value Pricing - John Hechinger, WSJ
Scandal Confirms Funds' Big-Investor Focus - Ian McDonald, WSJ
Funds' Like 'Big', Investors Should Want 'Small' - Chet Currier, Bloomberg
Consequences for Mutual Funds - Chet Currier, Bloomberg
Spitzer's Role vs SEC Role - Ian McDonald, WSJ
Study Estimates Late-Trading's Harm - John Hechinger, WSJ
Market Timing's Effect on Mutual Funds - Mark Hulbert, NY Times
Dilution Impact of Daily Fund Flows - Greene & Hodges
Arbitrage-Proofing Mutual Funds - Eric Zitzewitz, Stanford
Fund Flow Volatility and Performance - David Rakowski, Georgia State
----------------------- October Scandal News -----------------------
'Conflicts of Interest' Hurt Fund Shareholders - Pulliam, Lauricella, McDonald, WSJ
Janus Says 12 Clients Timed Funds - Christopher Oster, WSJ
Millennium Hedge-Fund Trader Admits to 'Late' Trades - Gregory Zuckerman, WSJ
Union Members Made Timed Trades Through Putnam - John Hechinger, WSJ
SEC Probes Deals With Brokers - Lauricella & Solomon, WSJ
More on Putnam - Chuck Jaffe, CBS MarketWatch
--------------------- November Scandal News ----------------------
SEC Survey Discloses After-Hours Deals - Brooke Masters, Washington Post
Prudential Ignored Warnings About Brokers - Maremont & Bandler, WSJ
Slow But Prolonged Investor Reaction - Gretchen Moregenson, NY Times
Avoiding Problems by Changing the Rules - Chuck Jaffe, Boston Globe
Surviving the Fund Scandal - Chuck Jaffe, Boston Globe
SEC Settles with Putnam - Jesse Eisinger, WSJ
SEC's Oversight of Mutual Funds Is Lax - Stephen Labaton, NY Times
Get Loud [Complain to Your Congressperson] - Jeff Brown, Philadelphia Inquirer
The Revenue Sharing Scandal [at Morgan Stanley] - J Willoughby, Barrons
Revenue Sharing II [with Morgan Stanley] - Chuck Jaffe, CBS MarketWatch
Ex-manager of Morgan Stanley Charged With Fraud - J Krasner, Boston Globe
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