Here is a list of articles from the Wall Street Journal that you should read. Additionally any of the "current events" (see mergers for example) that are listed on the "notes" page.
6-1-99
C1 Merril Online: a Bull Enters the Arena
C1 The Upside of Stock-MArket Plunges
C1 Biotech's Fall May Give Clue on Net Stocks
C21 The Real World Reasserts Itself In the Market
5-28-99
C1 How Bad News of First Union Caught Many Analysts Napping
C1 NASD Prepares for Late Hours; Date Isn't Set
C1 A Hard Lesson for Internet Funds
B1 Scoop on Summer Jobs: Even the Menial Ones Will Pay Off in the End
5-27-99
B12 Web Surfing Is Fast Way to Go Job Hopping
B2 SEC Charges 25 in Trading on IBM Deal
B4 Online Brokers to Customers: Sober Up
B5 TLC Beatrice Prepares to Sell Last of Its Holdings
B11 Informix to Settle holder Suits for $142 Million
C1 Nervous Internet Investprs Get Reprieve
C1 Soon, Hal May Become Your Broker
C1 Night Trading On Nasdaq Heads for Vote
C1 The French Try to Demystify Investing
5-26-99
A3 McKesson, Finding More Improprieties in Accounting, to Restate Profit Again
A3 Charter Plans to Acquire Falcon Cable
A17 Korea Telecom Issues 90.2 ADRs
C1 Bond Offers the Internet Sans Anxiety
C1 Fiedlty's Rivals Help It Draw 'Supermarket' Shoppers
C13 At Inflated Prices, Semiconductor Executives Sell
5-25-99
C1 Unreality Check for the Bull Market
C13 Big Board Sees Only Limited Demand for Night Trading, but Feels Compelled
5-24-99
A30 Indexes: Why the Critics Are Wrong
C1 Stock Options Take Hidden Toll on Profits
C19 Pricing of Speculative New Web Stocks Indicates a Lack of Expertise in the Field
C19 When are Junk Bonds Not Quite That Risky? When they Are sold Increasingly Popular CBOs
5-21-99
C1 How Merrill Wished Upon a Star Banker and Would Up in a Singapore Sling
C1 Deal is Done But Parties Still Haggle
C1 Index Funds: the Similarities are Different
C19 SEC Aims for Increased Junk-Bond Oversight; Milken Looms Behind the Opposition to Plans
C19 Tender offer Advertisement on right hand side of page.
5-20-99
A1 How the Stock Market Would be Transformed By a 10PM Closing
C1 Investors May See 'LTCM, the Sequel'
C1 Inflation-Indexed Bonds Attract Fans
5-19-99
wow! What a WSJ day!!!
A1 An Accounting Scandal Endangers Big Payout for a Retired CEO
C1 Web IPOs: Fees Soar For Liability
C1 Milken's Nextera IPO Doesn't hit the Stratosphere
C15 Level 3 CEO Lays Out Plan to Sell Shares
B1 Rethinking a Quaint Idea: Profits
B1 Promises from A Stranger (think of time value of money!)
5-18-99
A1 More Employers Motivate the Rank and File with Stock Options
B1 High-tech Workers Pay a Price for Accepting Rewards to Stay Put
At Electric Companies, The Boss's Pay Gets a Big Jolt
to Explain Web Mania, Pundits TipToe Through a Hot Metaphor
C1 Legends Clash on Merit of Foreign Stocks
Online Trading Boom Spreads Beyond US
Is Qualcomm Mixing Signals on Korea Sales?
Investors Focused on Fed's Interest-Rate Arrow
5-17-99
C1 For many Aged Savings Bonds, It's time Owners Sent Them Home to Uncle Sam
C1 Asian "foreign premiums" test the Patience of Investors
C1 Sign of the Times: Why the New Buy the Old
C20 Risky Business: Internet IPO aftermarket
C23 Fidelity's Stansky is Cautious on Stocks
5-12-99
B2 Franchises Test the Water Before Taking the Plunge
C1 Managers are Rising, Falling With Market
5-11-99
A4 Conectiv to Announce Restructuring, Including Sale of Plants, Stock Buyback
A22 Clinton's Cyncial War on Banking Reform
B14 Ballot Free Fall (fewer golden parachutes being voted down)
C1 Too Many Funds? Not With This List
C1 Traders Leave Billions on Table in Oil Deals
The following were for the spring semester (saved for presentation purposes)
4/28/99
A1 Frozen Northwest
A1 PLan for a Landfill Unites Old Enemies Around Selma, Ala.
A13 Italian Bank Deals Appear In Jeopardy
A4 Park Place Sets Pact to Purchase Starwood's Caesars Casino Business
A13 Political Impasse Imperils Telecom Megamerger
C1 Sealed air's CEO TAkes Holders' View of "Poison Pill"
C1 Hot Titles: When a Fool Outshines a Guru
C1 Big Brokers Plan Online Counterattack
C7 Web-Site Firm Razorfish IPO Doubles Its Price; Heidrick & Struggles Non-Internet IPO Falls Flat
4/26/99
A4 Chock Full O'Nuts Executive Draws Fire For Not Disclosing Sara Lee Overtures
C1 Trading Bonds Online Slowly Catches On
C20 New York Leads in Online IPOs Since '94
R6 A Number of Problems: Accounting rules are less than rigorous in many countries: It makes all the difference.
R12 Home Advantage: ADRs allow investors to buy into foreign stocks under the protective umbrella of U.S.
Regulations
R15 Raising Their voices: Minority shareholders have rarely had any say in non-U.S. companies. That's starting to change. Slowly.
4/23/99
C1 Regulators Worry That Online Investors May Be Getting Poor Trade Executions
C1 Old-Style Fund Ideas Turn Timely
C1 Markets cold to Telecom Deal; Olivetti May Still Have a Chance
4/22/99
C1 A "Big Dog" in chat Rooms Takes Wild Internet Ride
C1 SEC Enforcement Cheif Is on Hot Seat As Online Fraud Poses Host of problems
C1 Europe's Yen for Highflying IPOs Wanes
4/21/99
A1 Joining the Ranks of Rich Secretaries in the Internet Ranks
A4 Calpers Targets Circus Circus, Tyson and other firms as Worst Performers
A4 FASB to Decide If Accounting Tool wil be Eliminated
A15 Telecom Italia Board Agrees to German Deal
C1 Margin Calls Slimb Sharply on Tech Drop
C1 Online Trades Trip Up Three Mechanics: Portfoilios Plunge After Giddy Month
C1 Internet companies Preparing for IPOs Bite their E-Nails
4/20/99 Wow Several very interesting articles!!!!
A2 Why own? Sell It and Then Lease back the Space
A3 Compaq Begins Its Search for New CEO
A17 Daewoo Group Plans Huge Asset Sales
A17 Historic Deal Faces Big Hurdles
B1 Compaq's Rosen Wields Ax to Protect Legacy
C1 Hyper Citigrioup Shares: Ready to Nap (focus on synergy also note bridge loan)
C1 UK Investors Try to Discover Buffett's Target
4/19/99
A1 House Calls: Citibank Hitches Itself to Primerica's Team To Peddle Accounts
A2 Compaq Removes Cheif Executive Pfeiffer
A3 Columbia Energy Bids For Gas Firm
A15 Telecom Merger Discussions Confirmed
C1 The IPO Machine
C1 Reality Check: Highs and Lows of IPO's
C1 Take Internet, Add Timing, Hit Paydirt
4/15/99
C1 How Far Can Online Rocket Carry Ameritrade?
4/14/99
A3 Cisco Is Buying GeoTel for $1.92 Billion in Stock
A12 Bell Atlantic and GTE Urge Merger Approval
A27 On'Net Companies, Milken and Al
C1 Help Wanted: Wall Street Hiring Now
C2 B.F. Goodrich, Coltec Deal Is Having Trouble Landing
C22 Belgium's Floating Note Offering Bucks Enviornment of Declining Rates
4/13/99
B1 For Bankers, A job Lost is Often an Opportunity Gained
B5 Tanger Jumps 14% on News of Stake Taken by Buffet
B5 First Union Hires Knowlton to Expand Its Leveraged-Buyout Finance Business
C1 Buyout Firms See Big Bucks in Some Small Companies
C22 Goldman Sachs Top Officers to Receive One of Wall Street's Biggest Paydays
C22 Accord Set With FTC Staff Overs Pending Acquisition
4/12/99
A1 Hollywood, Chastened by high costs.... (think Capital Budgeting)
A17 Teelcom Italia forced to seek new strategy to fend off Olivetti's hostile bid
B8 Disney considers IPO of internet holdings
B4 Pentagon to block Gen Dynamics bid for Newport News Shipbuilding
B10 Ex-Broker pleads quilty to IPO scheme
B10 Extreme Networks sees stock triple after IPO
C1 Even if your fund doesn't hit a homer, it may take you out of the Ball Game
C2 Electric Utilities, Eager to Shed Dinosaur Label, Stumble in Wooing Investors on New Strategy
C20 Internet Frenzy Shows No Sign of Abating (on IPOs)
4/8/99
C1 How Currency Trading Run Amok Crushed a Family
C1 Extra! Extra! Internet Hoax, Get the Details
4/7/99
A3 MCI WorldCom Inc. Sought Out Nextel As Long-Distance Cell-Phone Use Grew
A18 French Banks Reject BNP Bids, Setting Stafe for Market Battle
C1 SEC Case Claims Profit 'Management' by Grace
C27 SEC Tool to Calculate Costs of Funds
4/5/99
R1 Hot Market Leaves Most Funds Cold
R25 How Surfing the Web Is Next Big Fund Wave
4/2/99
C1 Columbia University's New Business School Signs on With Internet Education Firm
C1 SEC Probes Day Traders Web Service
C2 Salomon Analyst's Favorable Report on Level 3 Amid Offering Raises Questions About Timing
4/1/99
A3 Yahoo! Inc, Broadcast.com Reach a Deal
A3 Pepsi Bottling's IPO Falls Below Offering Price
A18 Questions of Fairness are Raised About Olivetti In Its Hostile Bid to Take over Telecom Italia
C1 Saloman Pressures Merrill's Bond Lead-a very good background article on bond underwriting
C1 Trading Places: Mistaken ID---sort of funny--people do make mistakes!
C1 Former Spear leeds Specialists--looks at interworkings of NYSE
C2 Analysts Increasingly Favor Using Cash Flow over Reported Earnings---SHOCK!!!!
C14 Change in Europe's Financial, Investment Picture can be Attributed in Part to US Stock Market
3/31/99
A1 Store Markdowns: Leaning on Suppliers, Rite Aid Deducts Cash at Bill-Paying time--Advantage of size
A1 Slash and Clash: While BP Prepares New U.S. Acquisition, Amoco Counts Scars
C1 Sun's Role in Netscape Deal Could Saddle AOL With Years of Accounting Charges
C1 Hybrids provide Antidote to Acrophobia
3/30/99
Read the Whole Paper! It's worth it.
A1 If this is a bubble, It Sure is hard to pop
A1 Longest Bull Market on Record Smashes A Historic Border
A1 Ordinary People Show Extraordinary Faith, Reaping Rich Rewards
A1 The Rocket Under the Tech Boon: Big Spending by Basic Industries
A3 Computer Associates to aquire rival
A4 Bank One is cutting up to 4700 Jobs
A21 Olivetti Sweetens Bid by 15% In Battle to Win Telecom Italia
B4 BP Amoco's Purcahse of Arco could come Tomorrow
B9 Amizon.com shares increase by 7.6% on Moves into Pet Supplies, Auctions
B10 Time Warner weighs public offer of Some of It's internet holdings
C1 Dow Jones Industrials Climb past milestone
3/29/99
A3 BP Amoco Holding Talks to Buy Arco
3/25/99
C1 J.P. Morgan opens Its Gilt Doors
C22 Bond Prices end Firm after Treasury .....
B1 At Amazon.com, the CFO sells Investors on the Merits of Losses
A23 Chinese Crackdown Imperils Guaranteed Foreign Investment (Think about that the next time you get RF opportunity!)
3/24/99
C18 AT&T issues $8 Billion in bonds
C1 Insiders at Comaq, Gateway, Apple sell before sales worryxf
3/23/99 WOW! Big Day! Many good articles! :-)
A3 Comcast is buying MediaOne
A3 Yahoo is in talks with Broadcast.com
A4 Lubbrizol-TIAA-Cref Fund Duel over Poison Pills
A18 Telecom Italia to Raise Far Less to Fend off Bid
A22 If only we could turn back the Clock (think efficient markets!)
B8 Four Canadian Telecom companies agree to four-way merger
C1 S&P 500 Funds grow while Money flows out
C1 Dow 10000? Prepare the Hangover
C1 Are there Cracks in Conseco's House of Acquisitions?
3/17/99
A1 Nothing Ventured....You Expect Big Losses And Want $10 Million? Sure We'll Consdier It
C1 Yikes! Online Traders Face Mountains of Paperwork, All of It Due on April 15
C1 Goldman's Results Hit A Record
C2 Internet Concerns' Convertible-Bond Issuance could Snag Some in a Web of Anemic Profits
3/16/99
C1 Some Online Broker Fees Are Climing
C1 Debunking some Mutual-Fund Myths
3/15/99
B7 Sunbeam Faces Dunlap Abritration Demand
C1 New Forces Are Now Powering Surging Stocks
C1 Movers and Shakers
C2 Buffet Says Berkshire Would Have Benifited If He hadn't Made Any Stock Actions In 1998
C17 Charter Communication Sells $3 Billion in Bonds
3/12/99
C1 Putting Index Funds in Their Place (not required for the test)
3/11/99
A1 Sizing Up: BNP Bid Raises Issue Of How a Large Bank Can Get or Should (not required for the test)
A1 Food for Thought (not required for the test)
B8 Tobacco Liability Colls Market Reaction to RJR Split
C1 SEC Puts Online-Broker Titans on High Alert (not required for the test)
C1 Schwab Settles With investors Over IPO (not required for the test)
3/3/99
C1 Follow the Dotted Line: First Up- Then Down
C1 Your Pension May Be Changing; Go Figure How...If You Can
3/2/99
C1 Compaq Is Criticized for How It Disclosed PC Troubles
C1 Investing Isn't Just Happily Ever After'
C1 Nasdaq, Instinet Teamin Up Discussed
C2 Vangaurd Group To Cut Some Fund Fees
3/1/99
A14 Three Suspensions at First Boston Are Linked To Alleged Tries to Manipulate Swedish Stocks
C1 Big Board Gets Feedback on Nasdaq Concept
C1 How Electronic Netwoeks Snag Trades
R1 The Luster of the Superstar Manager Fades
2/26/99
A1 Big Board Seeks a Way to trade Nasdaq Stocks, Probably electronically
C1 How to select a Tech Mutual Fund (and you say people don't use Beta anymore--BTW she's his daughter)
C24 Demand for Index Put Options.....
2/25/99
C1 Web Trades Agian hit by Glitches
C1 Like 9-Lived Cats, Money-losing Traders land on Their feet--with Fat Salaries
B1 Amazon Buys Stake in Upstart Drugstore.com
A1 How Some Bum Bonds Buried for a Century Bankrolled a 90s Scam. (wow are people dumb?!)
2/24/99
C1 Cyberburned: Saga of a Humbled Online Trader
C1 IPOs Over the Internet? Trend Carefully
C1 Bank Regulators, SEC Jockey To Be the New Securities Czar
C25 SEC Cheif Urges Stronger Fund Directors
2/23/99
C1 Many Myths can Bedevil A Taxpayer
C1 Surprise, surprise? Trade Frenzy Prededes Merger announcements of Three Stocks
C1 Some Investing Ideas With a Fresh Twist
2/22/99
A18 What Acquring Minds Beed to Know (GREAT Article, Deworsification)
C1 E*Trade Hits cyber-Bumps In Strategy
C1 Online Trading Sparks Interest of Goldman
C1 Was Wave of Stock Buybacks a Bad Idea?
C1 Telxon Is Probed By the SEC
C1 Europe's New Markers for IPOs of Growth Start-Ups Fly High
2/18/99
C1 Dashed Futures (an excellent example of what can go wrong in derivatives!)
C1 Wall Street's Fund Forays Won't be Quick Fix (think Peachtree!)
B1 Coat Peddlers are Using Forecasters to Beat the Heat (on derivatives)
2/17/99
C1 Nasdaq Stock's Price Ricochet is for the Books (can you say volatility!)
C15 Dell Computer Execs sell Shares (in January..mmm what has happened in Feb?)
2/12/99
A3 Large Holder Casts Doubts on Lycos-USA Deal
B4 Mellon Bank Continues to Fight Battle for Independence
C1 Internet Trades put Merrill Bill on Horns of Dilemma (keep Peachtree in mind!)
2/10/99
C1 Gabelli Makes Sure his Payout is High as He Tests IPO Waters
C1 Soon, Online Investors May Be "All-Day" Traders
2/9/99
C1 Tasting the Anquish and Euphoria of Day Trading (note all of his gain comes from 1 stock)
C1 Some Funds need Risk Re-Evaluated
2/8/99
C1 New Company Aims to Shift IPO Playing Field
C1 Some Investors Seize Moment to buy Bonds
A6 Shareholders Block General Datacomm From reducing Employee Options Price
2/3/99
B1 Softbank Cleans up on the Internet (Compare this to Japanese Keritsu)
C1 Key Figures to leave Hedge Fund (think of signalling and risks of derivatives)
C1 NASDAQ Panel Won't Endorse Trading-halt Plan
C2 When Stocks Split... (notice comments again on Signalling)
C21 Credit Markets...(especially read corporate bonds and take a look at various types of instruments listed in teh MONEY RATES section.
2/1/99 c1 Article on IPOs (class of 96)
(a2) Firms Say SEC scrutiny goes too far
C19 In wake of AMAZON.com sale of notes....(note "make whole payment")
c23 Using Tax-Sheltered vs Taxable Accounts
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