S&P 500

Apart from investing in the individual stocks in the S&P 500, there is also the possibility to invest in an exchange-traded fund (ETF) which represents ownership in a portfolio of the equity securities that comprise the Standard & Poor's 500 Composite Stock Price Index. This ETF is called the Standard & Poor's Depositary Receipts (SPDRs, pronounced "spiders"), and the ticker symbol is (AMEX:SPY). There is also the lesser-known iShares S&P 500 (AMEX:IVV), which has a lower management expense ratio, but is otherwise identical t ...

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S&P 500, S&P 500 - Weighting, S&P 500 - Components, S&P 500 - Investing

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The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE: KO) is the largest manufacturer, distributor and marketer of nonalcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups in the world. Coca-Cola's headquarters are in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States of America. It is best known for its flagship product, Coca-Cola. Coca-Cola is one of the largest corporations in the United States, and is a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. According to the 2004 Annual Report, the company now sells beverage products in more than 200 count ...

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• The Coca-Cola Company - Bottlers
• The Coca-Cola Company - Products and brands
• The Coca-Cola Company - List of brands
• The Coca-Cola Company - Failures
• The Coca-Cola Company - Criticisms
• The Coca-Cola Company - Coca-Cola in India
• The Coca-Cola Company - Coca-Cola bottlers and trade unions
• The Coca-Cola Company - Implications of doing business in Israel/Palestine
• The Coca-Cola Company - Praises
• The Coca-Cola Company - History
• The Coca-Cola Company - World War II
• The Coca-Cola Company - Santa Claus
• The Coca-Cola Company - Corporate Governance
• The Coca-Cola Company - Current Board of Directors
• The Coca-Cola Company - Historical List of Chairmen of the Board
• The Coca-Cola Company - Historical List of Chief Executive Officers
• The Coca-Cola Company - Stock
• The Coca-Cola Company - Bibliography

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Cluster Server(VCS) Veritas Enterprise Administrator Veritas Volume Replicator (VVR) Veritas SANPoint" Cluster Server (VCS) Veritas Enterprise Administrator Veritas Volume Replicator (VVR) Veritas SANPoint VERITAS Software Corporation (NASDAQ : VRTS) was an international software company that was founded in 1983 as Tolerant Systems, and renamed VERITAS Software Corp in 1989. It was headquartered in Mountain View, California. The company specialized in storage management sof ...

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A blue chip stock is the description of the stock of well-established companies having stable earnings and no extensive liabilities. Most blue chip stocks pay regular dividends, even when business is faring worse than usual. They are valued by investors seeking relative safety and stability, though prices per share are usually high. Typically, such stocks are perceived to offer reliable ret ...

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Video game publishers are companies that publish video games that they have either developed internally or have had developed by a video game developer. Most video game publishers also produce and publish computer games, but the term "video game publisher" is often used generically to refer to companies that publish interactive games regardless of the target platform. Video game publisher - Overview. As with book publishers or publishers of DVD movies, video game publishers are responsible for their product ...

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• Video game publisher - Overview
• Video game publisher - Business risks
• Video game publisher - Investor interest
• Video game publisher - Selected video game publishers
• Video game publisher - Other video game publishers
• Video game publisher - Notable former publishers

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The 7 July 2005 London bombings were a series of co-ordinated suicide bombings that struck London's public transport system during the morning rush hour. The bombings killed 52 civilians and injured over 700 people. At 8:50 a.m. (BST, UTC+1), three bombs exploded within 50 seconds of each other on three London Underground trains. A fourth bomb exploded on a bus at 9:47 a.m. in Tavistock Square. The bombings led to a severe, day-long disruption of ...

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• 7 July 2005 London bombings - Bombings
• 7 July 2005 London bombings - Attacks on the Underground
• 7 July 2005 London bombings - Attack on a double-decker bus
• 7 July 2005 London bombings - Casualties
• 7 July 2005 London bombings - Investigation
• 7 July 2005 London bombings - Initial reports
• 7 July 2005 London bombings - Terrorist attack
• 7 July 2005 London bombings - Suicide bombings
• 7 July 2005 London bombings - Suspects
• 7 July 2005 London bombings - Claim of responsibility
• 7 July 2005 London bombings - Translated statement
• 7 July 2005 London bombings - Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigade
• 7 July 2005 London bombings - Tape of Mohammad Sidique Khan
• 7 July 2005 London bombings - Warnings
• 7 July 2005 London bombings - Effects
• 7 July 2005 London bombings - Security alerts
• 7 July 2005 London bombings - Transport and telecoms disruption
• 7 July 2005 London bombings - Economic impact
• 7 July 2005 London bombings - Response
• 7 July 2005 London bombings - Media response
• 7 July 2005 London bombings - Historical comparisons
• 7 July 2005 London bombings - Contacts

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Bill Miller is the CEO of Legg Mason Capital Management, a subsidiary of Legg Mason. He is a manager of the Legg Mason Value Trust, whose after-fee return has beaten the S&P 500 index for 15 consecutive years since 1991 (consistently excessive returns over the general market is considered to be anomalous according to the the efficient market hypothesis). Other well-known investors who have similarly out ...

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• Bill Miller finance - Books

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American Standard Companies, Inc. (NYSE: ASD) is a global provider of air conditioning systems and services, bath & kitchen products and vehicle control systems. A S&P 500 and Fortune 500 listed company with 2004 sales exceeding 9.5 billion United States dollars, American Standard Companies offers: Bathroom and kitchen fixtures and faucets/taps, sold under such brands as American Standard, Ideal Standard and Armitage Shanks Air conditioning systems and services, sold under the Trane and American St ...

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• American Standard Companies - History
• American Standard Companies - Management

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In general terms, economic models have two functions: first as a simplification of and abstraction from observed data, and second as a means of selection of data based on a paradigm of econometric study. Simplification is particularly important for economics given the enormous complexity of economic processes. This complexity can be attributed to the diversity of factors that determine economic activity; these factors include: individual and cooperative decision processes, resource limitations, environmental and geographical co ...

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Model economics, Model economics - Overview, Model economics - Types of models, Model economics - Pitfalls, Model economics - Restrictive unrealistic assumptions, Model economics - Omitted details, Model economics - Are economic models falsifiable?, Model economics - History, Model economics - Tests of macroeconomic predictions, Model economics - Comparison with models in other sciences, Model economics - The effects of deterministic chaos on economic models, Model economics - The critique of hubris in modelling, Model economics - Examples of economic models

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Biogen Idec is headquartered in Kendall Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and operates research and development facilities in Cambridge and San Diego. Biogen Idec operates manufacturing facilities in Kendall Square, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, and Hoofddorp, Netherlands. The company is also building a Large Scale Manufacturing plant in Hillerod, Denmark, which is expected to go online in 2008. Biogen Idec maintains its international headquarters in Zug, Switzerland, and operates an International regulatory & clinical ...

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Biogen Idec, Biogen Idec - Locations of operation, Biogen Idec - Competitors, Biogen Idec - Management, Biogen Idec - News

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Google - Beginning. Google began as a research project in January 1996 [1] by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two Ph.D. students at Stanford. They hypothesized that a search engine that analyzed the relationships between Web sites would produce better results than existing techniques. (Contemporary search engines essentially ranked results according to how many times the search term appeared on a page.) It was originally nicknamed BackRub because the system checked backlinks to estimate a site's imp ...

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Google, Google - History, Google - Beginning, Google - Financing and IPO, Google - Today, Google - Salaries, Google - Management, Google - Corporate culture, Google - Twenty percent time, Google - Googleplex, Google - April Fool's Day jokes, Google - IPO and culture, Google - Google partnerships, Google - Criticism and controversy, Google - Copyright issues, Google - Multinational corporation, Google - Past legal issues, Google - Current legal issue, Google - Personnel issues, Google - Partiality, Google - Offensive Search results, Google - Privacy, Google - The PageRank system, Google - Digital rights management in Google Video, Google - Specific searches

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As the largest seller of soft drinks in the world, the Coca-Cola Company has been the subject of various allegations, such as monopolistic practices, and racist employment practices, as well as critiques of the company's products and trade practices. In the UK, the corporation has been investigated for food promotion, childhood obesity and for weaning young children onto junk food.[citation needed] In India, the corporation has provoked a number of boycotts and protests as a result of its perceived low standards of health a ...

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The Coca-Cola Company, The Coca-Cola Company - Bottlers, The Coca-Cola Company - Products and brands, The Coca-Cola Company - List of brands, The Coca-Cola Company - Failures, The Coca-Cola Company - Criticisms, The Coca-Cola Company - Monopolistic Practices, The Coca-Cola Company - Discrimination, The Coca-Cola Company - Coca-Cola in UK, The Coca-Cola Company - Coca-Cola in India, The Coca-Cola Company - Coca-Cola bottlers and trade unions, The Coca-Cola Company - World War II and Nazism, The Coca-Cola Company - Implications of doing business in Israel/Palestine, The Coca-Cola Company - Praises, The Coca-Cola Company - History, The Coca-Cola Company - World War II, The Coca-Cola Company - Santa Claus, The Coca-Cola Company - Corporate Governance, The Coca-Cola Company - Current Board of Directors, The Coca-Cola Company - Historical List of Chief Executive Officers, The Coca-Cola Company - Stock, The Coca-Cola Company - Bibliography

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The Dow dropped to a four-year low on September 24, 2002. Stocks on the Nasdaq reached a 6-year low. As of September 24 the Dow Jones Industrial Average had lost 27% of the value it had in January 1, 2001, at a total loss of 5 trillion dollars. The markets continued their declines, breaking the September low to five-year lows on October 6. It should be noted that the Dow Jones had already lost 9% of its value from its peak, and the Nasdaq had lost 44% of its value from its peak. Stocks recovered slightly from their October lows, with the Dow remaining i ...

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Stock market downturn of 2002, Stock market downturn of 2002 - Scale, Stock market downturn of 2002 - Index levels

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Stock market indices may be classed in many ways. A broad-base index represents the performance of a whole stock market— and by proxy, reflects investor sentiment on the state of the economy. The most regularly quoted market indices are broad-base indices including the largest listed companies on a nation's largest stock exchange, such as the American Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 Index, the British F ...

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Stock market index, Stock market index - Types of indices, Stock market index - Weighting, Stock market index - Indices and passive investment management, Stock market index - Ethical stock market indices, Stock market index - Lists

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As with book publishers or publishers of DVD movies, video game publishers are responsible for their product's manufacturing and marketing, including market research and all aspects of advertising. They usually finance the game development, sometimes by paying a video game developer (the publisher calls this external development) and sometimes by paying an internal staff of developers called a studio. The large video game publishers also distribute the games they publish, while some smaller publishers instead hire distribution ...

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Video game publisher, Video game publisher - Overview, Video game publisher - Business risks, Video game publisher - Investor interest, Video game publisher - Selected video game publishers, Video game publisher - Other video game publishers, Video game publisher - Notable former publishers

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Started by John Cullinane as Cullinane Database Systems of Westwood, Mass., the company was renamed to Cullinet in 1983 in order to show that it sold more than just IDMS. IDMS, coupled with a CICS look-alike called IDMS/DC, was very popular with Fortune 500 companies. Cullinane Database Systems went public in 1978. On April 27, 1982 the company became the first computer software firm to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange and later, the first to become a compo ...

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Cullinet, Cullinet - History, Cullinet - Products

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Supply-side economists seek a cause and effect relationship between lowering marginal rates on capital formation and economic expansion. The supply-side history of economics since the 1960s hinges on the following key turning points: The Kennedy tax cuts which reduced marginal rates are believed by supply-side economists to be responsible for the 1960s prosperity. The more generally accepted political stand among supply-side detractors is that the tax program of 1963, by reducing the incentives to shelter income, reduced economic dist ...

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Supply-side economics, Supply-side economics - Historical origins, Supply-side economics - Fiscal policy theory, Supply-side economics - Monetary policy theory, Supply-side economics - U.S. monetary and fiscal experience, Supply-side economics - Supply-side economics in popular culture

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As a credit rating agency, Standard & Poor's issues credit ratings for the debt of companies. As such, it is designated a Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organization by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. It issues both short-term and long-term credit ratings. Standard & Poor's - Long-Term Credit Ratings. Investment Grade AAA  : the best quality companies, reliable and stable AA  : quality companies, a bit higher risk th ...

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Standard & Poor's, Standard & Poor's - Credit ratings, Standard & Poor's - Long-Term Credit Ratings, Standard & Poor's - Publications

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Levels mean market equity (stock, share) value. This is market cap value of exchange listed companies. Remember that 99 % by amount of (and perhaps 50 % by equity value) of all joint-stock companies are small and not listed on stock exchanges, and are therefore not included in this equity value. Equity levels and flows - 2003. Stock market capitalization at the end of 2003 (compared with GDP converted to € through estimated purchasing power parity exchange rates) (ECB: Statistics pocket book, 2003 data f ...

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Equity levels and flows, Equity levels and flows - Levels, Equity levels and flows - 2003, Equity levels and flows - Level change, Equity levels and flows - 2004, Equity levels and flows - New issues, Equity levels and flows - 2004, Equity levels and flows - 2003, Equity levels and flows - Flows, Equity levels and flows - Trading volume

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Supply-side economists seek a cause and effect relationship between lowering marginal rates on capital formation and economic expansion. The supply-side history of economics since the 1960s hinges on the following key turning points: The Kennedy tax cuts which reduced marginal rates are believed by supply-side economists to be responsible for the 1960s prosperity. The more generally accepted political stand among supply-side detractors is that the tax program of 1963, by reducing the incentives to shelter income, reduced economic dist ...

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Supply-side economics, Supply-side economics - Historical origins, Supply-side economics - Marx and Smith, Supply-side economics - Supply-side vs. Monetarism, Supply-side economics - Reaganomics, Supply-side economics - Fiscal policy theory, Supply-side economics - Monetary policy theory, Supply-side economics - U.S. monetary and fiscal experience, Supply-side economics - Supply-side economics in popular culture

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