DAILY NEWS STOCK PICKING CONTEST.THE GAME: Six investors are managing fictitious portfolios that stood at $100,000 on Oct. 1. 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 at the end of June stands tallest. FIRST PLACE NAME: Jason Friedman STOCK PORTFOLIO: Advancepcs 490 Amgen 310 Fannie Mae Fannie Mae: see Federal National Mortgage Association. 110 General Electric 590 Pharmaceutical Resources 245 TRANSACTIONS LAST WEEK: Bought: Advancepcs, 150 shares; Paradyne, 849 shares; Sold: Amgen, 300 shares; Paradyne, 849 shares VALUE THIS MORNING: $109,067.20 (including $17,279.40 in cash) VALUE ON OCT. 15: $103,385.50 (including $231.75 in cash) SECOND PLACE NAME: Tom Avilla STOCK PORTFOLIO: Computer Associates 400 Washington Mutual “WaMu” redirects here. For the Washington, DC radio station, see WAMU. Washington Mutual (or WaMu; NYSE: WM) is the United States' largest savings and loan association. 200 TRANSACTIONS LAST WEEK: Bought: Computer Associates, 400 shares; eBay, 200 shares; Protein Design Labs, 400 shares; Sold: General Electric, 200 shares; Protein Design Labs, 400 shares; eBay, 200 shares VALUE THIS MORNING: $105,370 (including $87,132 in cash) VALUE ON OCT. 15: $105,727 (including $86,127 in cash) THIRD PLACE NAME: Norman Brown Norman Brown may refer to:
STOCK PORTFOLIO: Citigroup 123 Corning 555 Costco Wholesale 281 General Electric 268 Gemstar TV-Guide 507 Genuine Parts Co. 157 IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) 109 Loews 108 Phillip Morris 103 Qualcomm 210 Sara Lee
Sara Lee Corporation (NYSE: SLE) is a global consumer-goods company based in Downers Grove, Illinois, USA. 235 TRW TRW The Real World (TV reality show) TRW The Right Way TRW Tactical Reconnaissance Wing TRW The Retriever Weekly (University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD) TRW Thompson Ramo Wooldridge Inc 167 Wal-Mart 94 TRANSACTIONS LAST WEEK: Bought: Corning, 555 shares VALUE THIS MORNING: $103,654.21 (including $10,038.60 in cash) VALUE ON OCT. 15: $105,797.93 (including $15,083.60 in cash) FOURTH PLACE NAME: June S. Sattler 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. Time Warner 311 Costco Wholesale 98 General Electric 107 The Home Depot 104 IBM 109 Intel 244 99 Cents Only 185 Norfolk Southern 124 Pfizer 100 Tyco International 101 Viisage 100 Walgreen Co. 100 TRANSACTIONS LAST WEEK: Bought: AOL Time Warner, 100 shares; Sold: Cepheid, 100 shares VALUE THIS MORNING: $102,437.21 (including $41,625.17 in cash) VALUE ON OCT. 15: $102,958.24 (including $44,172.17 in cash) FIFTH PLACE NAME: Allen Sussman STOCK PORTFOLIO: Aflac 100 Amgen 200 AOL Time Warner 200 Cisco 200 Cheesecake Factory 200 EMC (1) (EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA, www.emc.com) The leading supplier of storage products for midrange computers and mainframes. Founded in 1979 by Richard J. Egan and Roger Marino, EMC has developed advanced storage and retrieval technologies for the world's largest companies. 200 Fortune Brands 150 General Electric 200 Home Depot 100 Immunex 150 Intimate 200 Lucent 250 Pfizer 100 Southwest Airlines 200 Arthur Gallagher 250 Check Point 200 TRANSACTIONS LAST WEEK: Bought: Arthur Gallagher, 250 shares; Cheesecake Factory, 200 shares; Check Point, 200 shares; Sold: Conseco, 200 shares; Corning, 200 shares VALUE THIS MORNING: $101,761.50 (including $22,730.50 in cash) VALUE ON OCT. 15: $99,380 (including $36,951.50 in cash) CAPTION(S): 5 photos Photo: (1) Jason Friedman (2) Tom Avilla (3) Norman Brown (4) June S. Sattler (5) Allen Sussman |
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