Michael Farr
Michael Farr
Michael Farris a British expert on the comic series The Adventures of Tintin and its creator, Hergé. He has written several books on the subject as well as translating several others into English. A former reporter, he has also written about other subjects...
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It's a very complicated issue and it takes a lot of data to indicate a trend.
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The post-Labor Day rally, I wasn't sold on. The fact that we didn't really crash over summer, I thought was a terrific blessing. I think sentiment is going to drive the market from here. The numbers are there, the numbers have not changed. The economy has not changed, it is still good, slowing down a little bit. We've got a nice stable platform. Earnings for second quarter were fabulous. They ought to be pretty good, I think, coming in here to the third quarter.
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owned it for some time. We've liked Bank One ( ONE ) for some time. They've been kind of murky in terms of guidance. Management has made some analysts nervous. But we think that the values are certainly there. Earnings growth is there. So, Bank One would be one of ours, too.
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They've got a huge market share, ... They're the industry leader. American Power Conversion is growing earnings at about 18 percent.
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Although we include jobs with all levels of training, many of the better-paying jobs do require technical training or work experience, especially in the list's top 10.
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The more you know about the job, the industry and the employer, the more likely you are to present yourself well in the interview.
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You should evaluate employers just as carefully as they evaluate you.
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They are earning a lot of money, ... They've got great products, and they are going to get through all of this noise with the government.
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You don't want confrontation - you want your boss to see you as an up-and-comer,
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This is the time when we see what all these increasing inventories mean.
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This isn't a surprise. It's not a major setback, though we'd like to do better.
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The one sector you have to keep an eye on is pharmaceuticals. It seems to me, every time Mr. Gore opens his mouth, pharmaceuticals start to dip.
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I think you're getting a bit of a safe haven -- stocks with earnings look good. If money is coming out of the Nasdaq, it is going into Dow stocks.
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I think the economy is recovering and we won't get into a double dip. But trying to forecast when that economic strength shows up in earnings is a kind of fool's game. We've been playing it for about two-and-a -half years now,