DAILY NEWS STOCK PICKING CONTEST.THE GAME: Five families are managing fictitious 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. FIRST PLACE NAME: The Curtis Family STOCK PORTFOLIO: Stock Shares BAT International 7,042 Chatcom 1,333 Dell 190 Dole 308 Galoob 615 Gateway 257 McDonald's 210 Microsoft 289 Procter & Gamble 185 TRANSACTIONS LAST WEEK:Sold 270 shares of Tekelec at 42 3/4 VALUE THIS MORNING:$117,807.69 ($106,255.70 stocks, $11,551.99 cash) VALUE ON MARCH 20:$110,775.28 ($110,715.79 stocks, $59.49 cash) SECOND PLACE NAME:The Salomon Family STOCK PORTFOLIO: Stock Shares Ahmanson 161.64 and warrants 200 Costco 200 Disney 100 General Electric 200 Global Telemedia 10,000 Harmony Holdings 1,000 Limited 300 Philip Morris 300 Sears, Roebuck 317 Tootsie toot·sie n. Slang 1. Toots. 2. A girl or young woman. 3. or toot·sy A person's foot. [Origin unknown. Roll 200 TRANSACTIONS LAST WEEK:None VALUE THIS MORNING:$112,436.99 ($112,433.99, cash $3) VALUE ON MARCH 20:$114,389.28 ($114,386.28, cash $3) THIRD PLACE NAME:The Jones Family STOCK PORTFOLIO: Stock Shares ContiFinancial 520 Cisco 100 Eli Lilly Eli Lilly can refer to:
Lucent 207 Microsoft 261 Oracle 200 Pfizer 99 Tekelec 203 Wal-Mart 200 TRANSACTIONS LAST WEEK:Sold 200 shares of FPA 1. (hardware) FPA - floating-point accelerator. 2. (programming) FPA - Function Point Analysis. Medical at 18 1/4, sold 200 shares of Titanium Metals Titanium metals may mean:
VALUE THIS MORNING:$111,105.38 ($111,059.94 cash $45.44) VALUE ON MARCH 20:$106,693 ($106,654.44 cash $38.56) FOURTH PLACE NAME:The Padilla Family STOCK PORTFOLIO: Stock Shares Allied Signal 216 OAL OAL Office of Administrative Law OAL Overall Length (see LOA) OAL Open Audio License (EFF) OAL Observatório Astronómico de Lisboa (Portugese: Lisbon Astronomical Observatory) 128 Compaq 200 Dell 200 LCI LCI Livable Centers Initiative LCI Life Cycle Inventory LCI Landing Craft, Infantry LCI La Chaine Info (French cable news channel) LCI Lean Construction Institute LCI Lions Club International 228 Microsoft 322 Nokia 107 Qualcomm 171 TRANSACTIONS LAST WEEK:Sold 100 shares of Nokia at 108, bought 86 shares of Lucent at 125 1/8 VALUE THIS MORNING:$104,815.16 ($104,813.56 cash $1.60) VALUE ON MARCH 20:$100,192.10 ($100,129.75 stocks, cash $62.35) FIFTH PLACE NAME:The Brunell Family STOCK PORTFOLIO: Stock Shares AirTouch 199 BankAmerica 100 Chevron 100 Ericsson 100 Harrah's 482 Hong Kong Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov. Telecom 569 Intel 214 Microsoft 121 Petsmart 603 Sunbeam 349 TRANSACTIONS LAST WEEK:Sold 500 shares of America West at 24 1/4, bought 569 shares of Hong Kong Telecom at 21 1/8 VALUE THIS MORNING:$104,718.44 ($104,712.75 cash $5.69) VALUE ON MARCH 20:$106,277.69 ($106,276.88 cash $0.81) CAPTION(S): 5 Photos PHOTO (1) The Curtis Family (2) The Salomon Family (3) The Jones Family (4) The Padilla Family (5) The Brunell Family |
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