S&amp;P changes its indices
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S&amp;P has announced changes to its indices in the US and Australia in relation to News Corporation. After trading closes on Friday December 17, 2004 New Corp.
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Sector-based ETFs may be losing steam.
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The Nasdaq Stock Market Inc  late on Friday announced the annual re-ranking of the Nasdaq-100 Index.
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Investors are keeping an eye on sequential numbers.
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The private equity business hit bumps. A deal was struck for a possible Dow Jones sale, and the Supreme Court struck down a longstanding rule on product pricing.
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The Motley Fool - It's not always easy make sense of the information that flows at us via the financial media. Consider, for example, this nugget that I ran across at investmentadvisor.com: "Standard &amp; Poor's latest mutual fund persistence scorecard, released in mid-August, found that through June 30, very few funds were able to consistently repeat top half or top quartile performance."
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The Nasdaq composite index briefly rose 1 percent, led by gains in Apple Inc.  before it reports its earnings later on Monday. The Dow industrials and S&P 500 index reversed course to advance.
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The change in its guidance doesn't rate the drop in its stock price.
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RUPERT Murdoch has to win four key votes to shift The News Corporation Ltd to New York and into the S&amp;P 500 share index. The votes of the Australian institutions - where the greatest opposition to the move resides - are critical in only one of the four.
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A low P/S ratio can point to undervalued companies.
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Like many newspapers, the Times-Union is planning to reduce its stock listings. In an age of immediate stock quotes on the Internet and business news channels on cable TV,  the newspaper listings have become less critical.
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Be mindful of stocks trading with high multiples.
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The S&P 500 is adjusting its scale, but this diet is a cheater.
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U.S. stocks fell on Friday after a manufacturing index from the Institute for Supply Management showed its weakest reading in more than three years. For details, see ID:nWEN0600
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Standard &amp; Poor's downgraded its rating on Fidelity Investments parent FMR Corp. , citing lackluster performance at the Boston company's well-known mutual funds division. Standard &amp; Poor's analyst Charles D. Rauch said FMR faces "stagnant earnings and weak profitability" compared with peer investment companies, explaning why the rating on Fidelity's long-term notes was reduced to "AA-minus" from "AA." ...
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Standard & Poor's said on Wednesday that The Washington Post Co  will replace Temple-Inland Inc  in the S&P 500 after the close of trading on Friday, December 28.
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The Stocks in the News on the DataBank page last Sunday contained incorrect labels for the stocksâ estimated price-to-earnings ratios. They were for 2008, not 2007.