The story is stock fare: one daughter of a wealthy citizen of Bologna is under intense parental pressure to marry an English nobleman, but the nobleman loves the father's other daughter, who is secretly married to her penniless beloved.
Time-honored as the Westport Country Playhouse is, a 1762 fable, best known as a Puccini opera, now reimagined as a flamboyant cartoon in a fusion of styles, is not a summer theater's stock fare.
Another measure of how willing many investors were to suspend their disbelief during the mania was the period in 2000 during which the more money a company lost, the better its stock did, while the more money a company earned, the worse its stock fared.
Guess whose stock fared better.
Bristol-Myers stock fared slightly less well, falling less than 1% to $56.
Since Noven relies heavily on its hormone replacement technology for revenue, its stock fared even worse than Wyeth's.
The stock fared better as the day went on, closing at $27.30, up 30percentt on its opening price.
Robert Nardelli got lots of public condemnation for walking out of Home Depot with $210 million, notwithstanding that the company's stock fared badly during the six years of his tenure.
Robert Nardelli was condemned for walking out of Home Depot with $210 million, notwithstanding that the company's stock fared badly during his six-year tenure.
See how the stock fared yesterday.
