In January of 2004, Karen Gibbs, host of the Public Broadcasting System’s Wall $treet Week with Fortune, ticked off the winners: “Lucent Technology up a whopping 125 percent; Time Warner, better by 37 percent; Cisco Systems, up 85 percent; Intel, over 106 percent higher; Microsoft better by 6 percent;…General Electric, up 27 percent; Big Blue—IBM—up 20 percent; and Pfizer better by 16 percent.”
