Saturday, December 01, 2007

President John Edwards Stock Index

These are the billionaire contributors to the John Edwards campaign, and the companies they are connected with, with the assumption that major contributors to presidential candidates expect the businesses that they are connected with to benefit. It shows the wealthiest contributors, based on the Forbes 400 list, and the companies they own and/or run as possible investments, assuming the candidate they support wins. Previous presidential candidate indices that have already been covered are the President Hillary Clinton Stock Index, the President Barack Obama Stock Index, the President Rudy Giuliani Stock Index, the John McCain Stock Index, the President Joe Biden Stock Index, the President Mitt Romney Stock Index, and the President Christopher Dodd Stock Index. The following stocks are part of the President John Edwards Stock Index.

Fortress Investment Group (FIG) Peter Briger Jr., Wesley Edens, Michael Novogratz

Dreamworks Animation (DWA) David Geffen, Steven Spielberg

Stryker (SYK) Pat Stryker

Nomura Holdings Inc. (NMR) Peter Briger Jr., Wesley Edens, Michael Novogratz; Nomura bought minority interest in Fortress for $890 million last December

Electronic Arts Inc. (ERTS) Steven Spielberg, developing three videogames for Electronic Arts


Author owns DWA.

By Fred Fuld at Stockerblog.com

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