Computer system runs $5 million pension fund by stock selection
William O'Neil of William O'Neil & Co. describes Automated Portfolio Management, a computer system that manages $5 million for a pension fund and tracks 75 factors on 7,000 stocks. The program, tested since 1966, aims for objective, emotion-free buy and sell decisions and assesses market trends.
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Los Angeles
William O'Neill
O'Neil
William O'Neil
O’neil
Harvard Business School
NYSE Quotations From Scottsdale Daily S&P Rally Patch
New York Stock Exchange noon quotations show mixed results with Dow Jones, Transports, Utilities and Industrials fluctuating. Several major components including NCR, IBM and General Electric display varied gains and losses as trading activity continues in Scottsdale Arizona.
Unclear Stock Market Fragments and Data Scrape
A fragmented OCR sample lists numerous stock tickers, percentages, and codes such as Hallibin, Harris, Hecla, Hercules, and OklaNG. The garbled text shows price-like figures, percentage changes, and company fragments with no coherent narrative or identifiable event.
Commodity Closings From Madda Trading Company
Prices for gold, silver, platinum, copper, wheat, corn, soybeans, live cattle, hogs, pork bellies, eggs, potatoes, plywood, cotton and sugar reported. Gold 142.50 up 3.00 per oz. Dec gold 143.40 up .70. silver 4.422 unchanged. copper 56.4 cents up. wheat 4.25 per bushel up .03. corn 2.99 up .03. soybeans 5.47 up .04. cattle 48.55 per cwt unchanged. hogs 63.02 down .80. pork bellies 300.95 down 1.50. eggs 58.35 up .02. potatoes 18.32 up .50. plywood 121.80 up .10. cotton 54.73 down .14. sugar 14.10 down .33.
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Investment Seminar Listed by Towne House in Arizona
Investment counselor David Markstein leads a seminar on investment trends at the Towne House 100 W Clarendon Ave on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The program covers near term business projections gold Swiss banking Arizona real estate bonds and stocks and special situation investments. A brief presentation will introduce Pay Day Press, a new Arizona based firm.
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David Markstein
Clarendon Ave
Arizona
Pay Day Press
Tax Reduction Act seminar on small business impact at ASU
Four hour seminar at Arizona State University Tempe reviews the Tax Reduction Act of 1975 and its effects on small business. The program runs from 1 to 5 p.m. in the ASU Center for Executive Development and is co sponsored by the U S Small Business Administration.
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Arizona State University
Tempe
U.S. Small Business Administration
ASU Center For Executive Development
Spies Named Vice President At First National Bank
Thomas A. Spies of the Scottsdale office has been promoted to vice president after 25 years in banking. He previously managed the Benson and Casa Grande offices and has degrees from the State University of Iowa. He moved to Arizona in 1960 from Iowa.
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First National Bank of Arizona
Scottsdale
Spies
Arizona
Iowa
First National
Benson
Casa ,Grande
State University of Iowa
Rex P. Prisbrey
State Farm Insurance
Chartered Life
Prisbrey
State Farm
Phoenix
Denver University
Joan_Barney
United Bank of Arizona
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