European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 20, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 20 stars and stripes sunday september �0,1997 investor s guide by Bill Doyle q. My husband and i it to Start investing. We would prefer to Start ant in Small by by baying 10 Sham of i Carn puny with which we arc familiar. Alter initial Pur chaw we would like in no Mac our holding in that Stock by investing two or Ihm limes a year. Can i do this without going through a brokerage firm a. To theory yes. If you can find someone who owns and warm to sell 10 Shn Rrt of Stock you want id Huy you can arrange a Pri vate trans action. You and seller would have to agree on a Doyle Price. The seller would Hen fill out assignment form on Back of Stock certificates have his signature there guaranteed by a brokerage firm commercial Bank or Trust company and Send certificate to mock s Transfer agent. A new certificate registered in your names would be sent to you. In practice however you nor Mally buy Stock through a broker age firm at least for initial Purchase. After that if Stock you want to accumulate has a dividend reinvestment plan with an optional additional investment feature you can accomplish exactly what you have in mind without contacting a broker again. More than 1,000 companies now have dividend reinvestment plans through which shareholders can choose to have their dividends automatically used to buy More shares rather than receiving dividend checks. Most dividend reinvestment plans have optional additional investment feature. That allows stockholders who arc enrolled in plan to Send in More Money to buy still More shares. Q. A number of years ago there was i service that furnished information on stocks. Each Sheet listed a different Stock s rating and a syn Opsis of company s activity and its financial operations including a record of its earnings and dirt Denb. I can Only Remmer Bat data which was very helpful in deciding whether or not to boy a Stock was printed on yellow paper. Is that service still in operation a. You re thinking of Standard & poor s corp s Stock reports which is very much in operation. It comes in three versions Yel Low sheets for stocks listed on new York Stock Exchange Blue sheets for american Exchange lilt de stocks and Green sheets for Over counter stocks. Many brokers pass out appropriate sheets to their customers. You la also find them in Book form at some Public libraries. Q. I know nothing about stocks Bonds Etc. Can you recommend some literature on Bow to get started in investments a. My favorite Book on that subject. Sam Shulsky on investing by late great columnist and published by new York Institute of finance is out of Prim. But you might locate in at some Public libraries. At All libraries however you will Sec shelves loaded with books about investments. Business news weak Dollar hurts Wall Street by Vixen Freisch up business writer new York Stock prices retreated last week in face of n weak Dollar rising interest rates and Friday s triple . The Dow Jones Industrial average Felt 84.10 to 2524.64 after rising 47.36 Points week before in a Bounce Back from a dive to just below 2500. Losing issues knocked out adv or tics 1,354-587 among 2,174 issues traded on new York Slock Exchange. The Market posted a narrow gain monday but followed that with four straight losses. The Dow tumbled 46.46 Points tuesday 36.39 wednesday. 2.29 Points thursday and slipped 3.26 Points Friday. The so called triple witching hour passed uneventfully Friday quarterly triple witching phenomenon when Slock Index futures contracts come due and options on those futures and options on individual stocks simultaneously expire has typically been linked with abrupt Market swings but analysts said new regulations in effect since june have curbed that volatility. 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Texas instruments was third sliding in 10 72 i. Daylon Hudson jumped 7 to 58 in Active trading. Lilc thursday Dart group said in proposed a Friendly $6j-a-share merger Wilh Dayton Hudson Newt not mining Rose tit to lol i a group led by t. Boone Pickens sweetened us bid for 28 million shares of Newmont to 1105 a share from v i a share. Wynn s International jumped 9% to 28%. The company got a $27.25-a-Jharc takeover proposal from an investor group led by Security Pacific venture capital advisory corp. The retail sector weakened. Gap inc. Plummeted 1314 to 474 and limited inc. Dropped 4vi to 36. Limited indicated to analysts thai profits in it fiscal second half win slow to a 25 percent to 30 per cent increase Over year ago period. Broad Market indexes dropped. The new York Stock Exchange composite Index fell 3.bo to 176.36. & poor s Soo Slock Index loss 7.12 10 314.86. 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