DAILY NEWS STOCK PICKING CONTEST.THE GAME: Five area residents - plus the Business section's mascot MASCOT - Modular Approach to Software Construction Operation and Test: a method for software design aimed at real-time embedded systems from the Royal Signals and Research Establishment, UK. , Mark T. Maker - are managing fictitious portfolios that stood at $100,000 on Aug. 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. Mark T. Maker, being the Valley boy he is, has vowed to win the contest picking only local stocks. 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 Feb. 1 stands tallest. FIRST PLACE NAME:Mildred Chavez STOCK PORTFOLIO:Apple 500 shares; Cirrus 500 shares; C-Cube 400 shares; Golden State Bancorp 300 shares; Iomega 1,000 shares; Kmart 700 shares; Quantum 500 shares; AT&T 300 shares; Unisys 1,100 shares and Xoma 1,000 shares TRANSACTIONS LAST WEEK:None VALUE THIS MORNING:$102,346.88, cash $331.25 VALUE ON DEC. 26:$96,493.75, cash $331.25 SECOND PLACE NAME:Mark T. Maker STOCK PORTFOLIO:On Assignment 800 shares; Cheesecake Factory 500 shares; Countrywide Credit 375 shares; Four Media 1,500 shares; IHOP IHOP International House Of Pancakes (restaurant chain) iHOP Information Hyperlinked Over Proteins IHOP International House of Prayer IHOP International H2O Project IHOP International House of Pain 500 shares; MiniMed 277 shares; Semtech 123 shares and Wellpoint Health Network 141 shares TRANSACTIONS LAST WEEK:None VALUE THIS MORNING:$101,990.75, cash $144.19 VALUE ON DEC. 26:$99,025.44, cash $144.19 THIRD PLACE NAME:Michele Cohn STOCK PORTFOLIO:Children's Broadcasting 3,192 shares; Country Star 924,648 shares; 3Com 282 shares; Jabil 344 shares; VLSI VLSI: see integrated circuit. (1) (Very Large Scale Integration) Between 100,000 and one million transistors on a chip. See SSI, MSI, LSI and ULSI. (2) (VLSI Technology, Inc., Tempe, AZ, www.semiconductors. 941 shares; Vivus 683 shares; Xilinx 313 shares and Tricon Global Restaurants 43 shares TRANSACTIONS LAST WEEK:Sell 618,566 shares of VideoLan at 3/64 and buy 924,648 shares of Country Star at 1/32 VALUE THIS MORNING:$94,598.27, cash $0 VALUE ON DEC. 26:$92,407.88, cash $0 FOURTH PLACE NAME:Cliff Harwood STOCK PORTFOLIO:Airborne 135 shares; America Online See AOL. 141 shares; American Express American Express (NYSE: AXP), sometimes known as "AmEx" or "Amex", is a diversified global financial services company, headquartered in New York City. The company is best known for its credit card, charge card and traveler's cheque businesses. 120 shares; Caliber Systems 153 shares; CMS Energy CMS Energy is a public utility supplying electric power and natural gas to most of Michigan. Its headquarters are located in Jackson, Michigan. The company has operated since 1890. Its two principal subsidiaries are Consumers Energy and CMS Enterprises. 217 shares; Compaq 167.50 shares; Motivepower 140 shares; Pfizer 160 shares; Philips 101 shares and Peoplesoft 228 TRANSACTIONS LAST WEEK:Sold 153 shares of Goodyear at 62 1/16, bought 217 shares of CMS Energy at 43 1/4 VALUE THIS MORNING:$88,842.63 cash $13.25 VALUE ON DEC. 26:$83,966.66, cash $2.94 FIFTH PLACE NAME:Lorraine Sadler STOCK PORTFOLIO:American Radio 150 shares; Ascend 200 shares; Centocor 200 shares; Cisco 225 shares; Mylan 1,000 shares; PepsiCo 250 shares; Personnel Group of America 300 shares; Quantum 400 shares; Turbo Chef 300 shares TRANSACTIONS LAST WEEK:None VALUE THIS MORNING:$83,445.31, cash $383.38 VALUE ON DEC. 26:$78,967.19, cash $383.38 SIXTH PLACE NAME:Jeffrey Wood Jeffrey Wood (born September 12, 1969 in Juneau, Wisconsin) is currently a Republican member of the Wisconsin State Assembly representing the 67th district since 2002. He attended University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. STOCK PORTFOLIO:Golden Phoenix Mineral 3,875 shares; Keystone Energy 6,894 shares; Oracle 300 shares TRANSACTIONS LAST WEEK:None VALUE THIS MORNING:$38,593.19, cash $5.26 VALUE ON DEC. 26:$41,813.63, cash $5.26 CAPTION(S): 6 photos Photo: (1) Mildred Chavez (2) Mark T. Maker (3) Michele Cohn (4) Cliff Harwood (5) Lorraine Sadler (6) Jeffrey Wood |
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