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Monday, June 25, 2007

Paris Hilton Stock Index

Components of the Paris Hilton Stock Index: PARL - Paris Perfumes NWS - The Simple Life - Entertainment Group - News Corporation TWX - Larry King Live - CNN - TBS - Time Warner DCX - makes Mercedes Benz cars CKR - spokesperson - Carl's Jr. - CKE Restaurants, Inc. WMG - Paris Music Album - Heiress Records label - Warner Music Group AMZN - Paris jewelry line CBS - Confessions of an Heiress book - Simon & Schuster - CBS Corporation GES - Advertising campaigns Assumptions: This is a price-weighted index, similar to the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Dividends were excluded. Returns: Up over 10% from May 1 until the time she first went to jail. Outperformed the S&P 500 which was only up only 3.6% during the same time frame. Outperformed the Dow which was only up only 4.1% during the same time frame. Dropped about 2.5% while she was going through her jail experience. [Let's hope she stays out of jail.]
Paris Hilton Stock Index
Author owns TWX and DCX.

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