DAILY NEWS STOCK PICKING CONTEST : FIRST PLACE NAME:THE CURTIS FAMILY.THE GAME: Five families are managing fictitious Based upon a fabrication or pretense. A fictitious name is an assumed name that differs from an individual's actual name. A fictitious action is a lawsuit brought not for the adjudication of an actual controversy between the parties but merely for the purpose of portfolios that stood at $100,000 on Feb. 2. Contestants can buy and sell daily, but each transaction costs Transaction Costs Costs incurred when buying or selling securities. These include brokers' commissions and spreads (the difference between the price the dealer paid for a security and the price they can sell it). $50. The portfolios are limited to stocks traded on the nation's major exchanges THE PAYOFF: Whomever whom·ev·er pron. The objective case of whoever. See Usage Note at who. whomever pron the objective form of whoever: has the largest portfolio on July 31 stands tallest. STOCK PORTFOLIO:BAT International 8,062 shares;Caye Chapel Coordinates: Caye Chapel is a small island in Belize, 16 miles north-northeast of Belize City and 3 miles south of Caye Caulker. 106,666 shares; Disney 900 shares; Dole 308 shares; Galoob 615 shares;Health Care Centers of America 54.852 shares; McDonald's 210 shares TRANSACTIONS LAST WEEK:Disney split 3-for-1 VALUE THIS MORNING:$166,575.77 (includes $75,819.49 in cash) VALUE ON JULY 2:$166,325.35 (includes $75,819.49 in cash) SECOND PLACE NAME:The Jones Family STOCK PORTFOLIO:Cisco 100 shares; Dell 125 shares; Lucent 491 shares; Microsoft 261 shares; Monsanto 61 shares; Pfizer 247 shares; Infoseek 253 shares TRANSACTIONS LAST WEEK:None VALUE THIS MORNING:$134,399.18 (includes $19.56 in cash) VALUE ON JULY 2:$128,843.37 (includes $19.56 in cash) THIRD PLACE NAME:The Padilla Family STOCK PORTFOLIO:AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. 292 shares; CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. 162 shares; Dupont 102 shares; Dell 200 shares; Disney 300 shares; Ericsson 400 shares; Merck 97 shares; Microsoft 100 shares; Norwest 81 shares; Nokia 147 shares TRANSACTIONS LAST WEEK:Bought 38 shares of AOL at $110.75; Disney split 3-for-1 VALUE THIS MORNING:$127,734.83 (includes $8.77 in cash) VALUE ON JULY 2:$124,015.89 (includes $4,267.27 in cash) FOURTH PLACE NAME:The Salomon Family STOCK PORTFOLIO:Columbia Capital 836 shares; Costco 200 shares; Disney 300 shares; General Electric 200 shares; Global Telemedia 10,000 shares; Limited 300 shares; Philip Morris 300 shares; Sears, Roebuck 317 shares; Tootsie toot·sie n. Slang 1. Toots. 2. A girl or young woman. 3. or toot·sy A person's foot. [Origin unknown. Roll 206 shares, Xerox 150 shares TRANSACTIONS LAST WEEK:Disney split 3-for-1 VALUE THIS MORNING:$124,019.80 (includes 24 cents in cash) VALUE ON JULY 2:$120,232.75 (includes 24 cents in cash) FIFTH PLACE NAME:The Brunell Family STOCK PORTFOLIO:Bally's 100 shares; Chevron 134 shares; Cisco 171 shares; Disney 441 shares; Ericsson 300 shares; General Electric 125 shares; Gap 268 shares; Eli Lilly Eli Lilly can refer to:
TRANSACTIONS LAST WEEK:Sold 214 shares of Intel for $73.48-3/8, sold 166 shares of Caterpillar for $54.31-1/4, bought 147 shares of Disney at $105.81-1/4, bought 281 shares of Staples at $32.12-1/2, Disney split 3-for-1 VALUE THIS MORNING:$108,083.59 (includes $17.41 in cash) VALUE ON JULY 2:$105,290.50 (includes $57.44 in cash) STACKING UP Selected stock index performance since the contest started on Feb. 2, on which each family received a fictitious $100,000 for investment: Indexes Return Dow Jones industrial average Dow Jones Industrial Average The best known U.S. index of stocks. A price-weighted average of 30 actively traded blue-chip stocks, primarily industrials including stocks that trade on the New York Stock Exchange. 12.31 percent S&P 500 16.29 percent Nasdaq Composite The Nasdaq Composite is a stock market index of all of the common stocks and similar securities (e.g. ADRs, tracking stocks, limited partnership interests) listed on the NASDAQ stock market, meaning that it has over 3,000 components. It is highly followed in the U.S. 17.55 percent Daily News/Bloomberg 10.20 percent CAPTION(S): 5 Photos, Box PHOTO (1) The Curtis Family (2) The Jones Family (3) The Padilla Family (4) The Salomon Family (5) The Brunell Family BOX: STACKING UP (See text) |
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