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The Spreading Wave Of Stock Buybacks Don't they have anything better to do with their money? For more than a year now, with machine-gun rapidity, one company after another has [...]

Like cheating on income taxes, people know that giving away or trading on inside information is illegal, but that doesn't stop them. Hardly a day goes by that there isn't [...]

American Can's pension-fund costs slipped 37% in the last two years, from $90.2 million to $56.5 million. Firestone Tire and Rubber's costs plunged 61% in the same period, from $44 [...]

Whatever happened to the 1984 bull market? Just a few weeks ago, the seers chorused that the Dow Jones industrial average was headed for 1400, propelled by rising corporate earnings [...]

World Bank: Doing Well by Doing Good 'Our mandate is to alleviate poverty and to enlarge the universe and economy of the developing countries.' So says A. W. (Tom) Clausen, [...]

A new generation of technology is triggering an upsurge in the electronic surveillance of workers in service industries. Combinations of computer counters, weight sensors, tape recorders and cameras reminiscent of [...]

Nothing infuriates Wall Street more than the claim that investors cannot outperform the market averages by picking stocks. But academicians insist that this is so. Their widely accepted theory, known [...]

Pension fund manager John Jones of Mytical Manufacturing was caught flat-footed when the market rocketed 86 points in a week last month. He was loaded with cash and bare of [...]

Anyone wanting to see free enterprise in its rawest, most vigorous and most opportunistic form need only visit a trading pit in Chicago, New York, Kanas City or anywhere else [...]