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| washingtonpost.com - Washington Investing -- The Washington Post's Jerry Knight on Public Companies in the Washington Region (washingtonpost.com) |
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| Time to Stop Writing About Stocks and Start Buying Them |
(Mon, 29 May 2006)
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| After years of writing about Washington investing, I'm getting ready to buy my first stock in a local company.
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| Old Money Takes Its Time At Chevy Chase Land Co. |
(Mon, 22 May 2006)
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| From Ed Asher's penthouse office on upper Connecticut Avenue, the canopy of leaves that covers Washington's suburbs rolls off in all directions like a verdant sea.
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| We're Stuck With The Mortgage Monsters |
(Mon, 15 May 2006)
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| After too many years tilting at Washington's windmills, there are few subjects left that can trigger my feelings of outrage.
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| Companies Ignored by Institutions Can Prove Strong Performers |
(Mon, 01 May 2006)
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| In Washington Investing 101 -- and most books on personal finance -- the first chapter is "The Magic of Compounding," a discourse on how your money can grow if you let gains build year after year.
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| REITs No Longer Resistant to Rate Increases |
(Mon, 17 Apr 2006)
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| Fifteen times in a row the Federal Reserve cranked up interest rates and real estate investors stood their ground.
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| Va. Takes Heed of Md.'s Electric Rate Backlash |
(Mon, 10 Apr 2006)
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| While Maryland politicians and Constellation Energy Group Inc. executives muck around in the mess they've made of electric rates, Wall Street is looking across the Potomac and worrying that something similar could happen in the Old Dominion.
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| For Start-Up Insurer, Flirting With Disaster Ended Badly |
(Mon, 27 Mar 2006)
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| To the list of those hit hard financially by last year's Gulf Coast hurricanes, add some new names:
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| Infrastructure: A Road to Riches? |
(Mon, 20 Mar 2006)
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| If somebody asked if you wanted to buy the Brooklyn Bridge, you'd know it was a con. But how about buying the Indiana Toll Road?
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| Radio One Takes a Long View |
(Mon, 06 Mar 2006)
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| Back when Radio One Inc. began buying radio stations, hip-hop was unheard music.
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| French Parent Targets Huge but Little-Known Lafarge North America |
(Mon, 13 Feb 2006)
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| The Washington area is preparing to bid a raucous au revoir to one of its biggest but least-known corporations -- one that arguably never should have existed.
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| A Lonely Voice Is Vindicated as Google Falters |
(Mon, 06 Feb 2006)
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| When Google stock plummeted Wednesday, investors in Maryland's most-vaunted mutual fund, the Legg Mason Value Trust, lost $130 million in value in a single day.
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| Danaher Thrives on Discipline |
(Mon, 30 Jan 2006)
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| For the chief executive of an $8 billion-a-year business that grows by making acquisitions, Danaher Corp. President H. Lawrence Culp Jr. has an impressive ability to say no.
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| Cuisine Solutions Sizzled in 2005 |
(Mon, 02 Jan 2006)
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| Washington investors had to read the food section and restaurant reviews to find last year's top-performing local stock -- Cuisine Solutions Inc., an Alexandria company that makes gourmet frozen food.
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| Dealmaking Power Companies Change the Utility Landscape |
(Mon, 26 Dec 2005)
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| Consumers and investors may think it doesn't matter much that Constellation Energy Group Inc., Maryland's biggest utility company, plans to merge with Florida's FPL Group Inc. Think again.
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| BlackBerry Users Can Relax: NTP Won't Shut You Down |
(Mon, 12 Dec 2005)
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| This column is for all those traumatized people who type with their thumbs.
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| Investors Could Find A Chink in Under Armour |
(Mon, 28 Nov 2005)
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| Not since Cal Ripken Jr. has Maryland produced as rich a sports hero as Kevin Plank.
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| Host Marriott, Out of the Shadow |
(Mon, 21 Nov 2005)
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| What do you call a company that's the biggest in its business, valued by Wall Street at more than $16 billion?
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| Carl Icahn's Latest Shuffle |
(Mon, 14 Nov 2005)
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| Carl Icahn has been trying lately to tell General Motors Corp. and Time Warner Inc. how to run their businesses. The 68-year-old New York financier has acquired significant stakes in both companies and is hectoring management to do something to "increase shareholder value" -- in other words, make the stock he just bought worth more.
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| AES Continues to Charm Wall Street Analysts |
(Mon, 31 Oct 2005)
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| Every week the Bloomberg news service compiles a list of companies that get the best rankings from Wall Street analysts. And every week for months, AES Corp. of Arlington has been on that list, ranking among the 30 most highly recommended stocks in the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index.
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| Nextel Partners Is a Phone Company Without a Brand |
(Mon, 24 Oct 2005)
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| Marrying into a family can always bring problems, but rarely do family feuds turn nasty as fast as the dust-up between Sprint Nextel Corp. and Nextel's most successful offspring.
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| A Chill Hits Feverish Biotech Stocks |
(Mon, 17 Oct 2005)
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| Every fall, the biotechnology industry used to get a predictable lift from an annual conference on infectious diseases where biotech companies report their latest drug research. A hint of success in the lab or in patient testing for one or two new drugs would elevate the whole risky sector.
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| Blue-Chip Trio Played Out of Tune in Third Quarter |
(Mon, 03 Oct 2005)
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| Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Marriott International.
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| Hurricanes Bring Price Spikes in Stocks, Construction Supplies |
(Mon, 26 Sep 2005)
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| Driven by Katrina and now Rita, higher prices are rolling through the building and construction business, affecting both consumers and investors.
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| Airlines Hide Out In Bankruptcy Court |
(Mon, 19 Sep 2005)
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| US Airways of Arlington is on Runway 11, revving its engines to fly out of bankruptcy.
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| Quirky MicroStrategy Springs Another Surprise |
(Mon, 22 Aug 2005)
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| MicroStrategy Inc. has produced such solid profits and strong stock performance recently that it was almost possible to believe the company had put its past behind it and matured into what it was always meant to be -- a nice second-tier software maker.
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| Sprint Nextel Emerges as Contender to Rule Local Market |
(Mon, 15 Aug 2005)
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| Move over, Lockheed Martin.
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| All Is Not Equal in the World of Spinoffs |
(Mon, 01 Aug 2005)
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| When Marriott International Inc. spun off a new real estate investment company to buy hotels, so many investors wanted in on the deal that the year-old company, DiamondRock Hospitality Co., sold $292 million worth of stock in May instead of the $172 million it had first offered.
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| Aether Systems Finds a Billion Dollars in Losses Is an Asset Worth Protecting |
(Mon, 18 Jul 2005)
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| When David S. Oros, the founder of Aether Systems, came by for lunch with editors and reporters six years ago, he was one of the rock stars of Washington business.
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| SEC Trading Rule Gives Executives An Out Just Ahead of Bad News |
(Mon, 11 Jul 2005)
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| In the month before the Trex Co. revealed that slumping sales and rising raw materials costs are eroding profits, three top officials of the Virginia maker of composite deck boards cashed in a combined $2.75 million of their stock.
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| Down but Not Out, Local Stocks Fare Better Than the Dow |
(Mon, 04 Jul 2005)
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| How much money have you lost in the market so far this year?
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| Financial Firms Weigh Expansion Closer to Home or Farther Afield |
(Mon, 13 Jun 2005)
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| The future of three of the Washington area's biggest financial services companies depends on a question nobody can answer with confidence.
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| Winning and Losing, Yet Still Coming Up Big |
(Mon, 06 Jun 2005)
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| On most rankings of mutual fund performance, two fund families based in the Washington area show up among the biggest winners -- and the biggest losers.
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| US Airways Investors Live in A Fantasy World |
(Mon, 30 May 2005)
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| Attention investors: The captain has turned on the seat-belt light. Please prepare for landing.
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| Online Investing: Consolidate Or Go Home |
(Mon, 16 May 2005)
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| As chief executive of E-Trade Financial Corp., Mitchell H. Caplan is determined to be a winner in the multibillion-dollar game of musical chairs in the online investing business.
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| Riggs Stockholders Decide How to Collect in PNC Deal |
(Mon, 09 May 2005)
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| Riggs Bank's customers and shareholders are facing a tough decision: Should they stay, or should they go?
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| Xybernaut Stock Sold Like Its Computers Didn't |
(Mon, 02 May 2005)
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| As a maker of "wearable computers," Xybernaut Corp. of Fairfax has been far more successful at selling stock than selling computers.
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| Legg Mason's Miller Presses For Qwest Bid |
(Mon, 18 Apr 2005)
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| Other investors may own more MCI stock, but few have as much at stake in the fight for control of MCI Inc. as Baltimore's Legg Mason Inc.
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| As Coal Prices Rise, So Do Coal Stocks |
(Mon, 11 Apr 2005)
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| You can't help but be reminded of the Little Engine That Could when you chart the stock price of Massey Energy Co. of Richmond.
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| USEC's Gain Tops Regional Stock Index In 1st Quarter |
(Mon, 04 Apr 2005)
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| In the gloomiest quarter in two years for Washington investors, one stock glowed like it was radioactive.
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| Buyer Beware: Retail Stocks May Not Pay Off |
(Mon, 07 Mar 2005)
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| With Kmart and Sears preparing for a summer wedding and the nation's two biggest department store groups celebrating their engagement, investors may be tempted to start shopping for retail stocks.
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| Wall Street Is Stuck With Fannie Mae |
(Mon, 28 Feb 2005)
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| Fannie Mae's stock finally had a good day on Friday--after a six-day slide that cost its shareholders $6 billion.
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| Some Troubled Firms Turned Into Top Performers in 2004 |
(Mon, 03 Jan 2005)
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| Flirting with bankruptcy is getting to be the most reliable way for Washington investors to pick a top-performing local stock.
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