This is a directory and performance guide to over 14,000 stocks, bonds and mutual funds. The book includes 1994 year-end prices for all stocks and bonds; data on 700 mutual funds, as well as variable annuities; earnings estimates for stocks; and earnings and dividend rankings for common stocks, plus Standard and Poor's ratings for preferred stocks.

Fully updated for 2001, a complete directory and performance guide for over 14,000 stocks, bonds, and mutual funds. This latest edition includes essential performance data on over 6000 stocks, 7000 bonds, and 700 mutual funds - combining the contents from tow of S&P's flagship publications.

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This easy-to-use handbook contains in-depth profiles of over 450 major U.S. private and public companies, from aerospace to railroads, from biotech to microchips, from accounting to retailing. It contains operations overviews, company strategies, histories, up to 10 years of key financial data, lists of products, executives' names, headquarters addresses, phone and fax numbers.

The ultimate desk reference for executives, consumers, investors, job seekers & salespeople, this book is packed with information on America's top companies. Fully revised annually, it features in- depth profiles of 500 public & private companies, from Abbott to Zenith, containing operations overviews, strategies, histories, up to 10 years of key financial data, products, key competitors, executives' names, headquarters addresses, & phone & fax numbers. Also included are extensive business lists & complete indexes by industry; by headquarters location; & of people, companies, & brand names. BUSINESS WEEK says, "You simply can't find more information on Corporate America in any other single source." Also look for HOOVER'S HANDBOOK OF EMERGING COMPANIES 1995, Nov. 1994. $37.95 (1- 878753-51-7); pap. $27.95 (1-878753-75-4) & HOOVER'S HANDBOOK OF WORLD BUSINESS, March 1995. $37.95 (1-878753-44-4); pap. $27.95 (1- 878753-43-6). Hardcover available from Reference Press, 6448 Hwy. 290 E., Suite E-104, Austin, TX 78723; 800-486-8666; fax 512-454- 9401. Trade paper available from Warner Books/Little, Brown, 200 West St., Waltham, MA 02254; 800-759-0190; fax 617-890-0875.