Eisner shocked Disney when he took up an option in his contract to buy 5.4 million blue chip shares at bargain basement prices.

Domestic investors snapped up shares of the most popular blue chip shares, anticipating that foreigners would have no choice but to pay inflated prices.

Blue chip shares now sell on a phenomenal 37 times their earnings - but that is half as phenomenal as the ratio of three years ago.

'Santa rallies' have seen UK blue chip shares rise in December for the last eight years in a row.

BFS splits the £4,800 PEP investment between capital shares in the M & G Dual investment trust and a selection of blue chip shares.

Tom O'Reilly was an ascetic former Treasurer of the Corporation who had been never known to smile even when the company's blue chip shares soared to dizzy peaks on Wall Street.

So a share which fluctuates 5% on either side on daily basis is said to have more volatility than let's say a stable blue chip shares whose fluctuation is more benign at 2-3%.

London's blue chip shares fell for a tenth day in a row after Germany continued to oppose a bigger role for the European Central Bank in managing the continent's debt crisis and Portugal's credit rating was lowered to junk.

Many blue chip shares - such as AstraZeneca, Aviva, RSA, BAE Systems, HSBC, National Grid and Vodafone, all of which I hold in my self-invested personal pension (Sipp) - yield more than 5pc net.

All the major blue-chip shares rode the crest of the wave.

Another is that small stocks, because of their recent run-up, are now more expensive than blue-chip shares.

The balance of 30% can be invested into areas such as government securities, gilts or blue-chip shares.

If you toss out January, a spectacular month for small-capitalization stocks, blue-chip shares have actually led the market this year.

The Dow Jones industrial average of 30 blue-chip shares surpassed other indicators by rising 22.6 percent.

According to Mr. Birinyi, even as the prices of blue-chip shares were falling, demand for them was surprisingly strong.

Blue-chip shares rose and technology stocks came under selling pressure for the second consecutive day as investors locked in profits after a weeks-long run-up.

Hong Kong's Hang Seng index in creased 4.2 percent, propped up by continued government buying of blue-chip shares.

Like other blue-chip shares, Deutsche Telekom is listed on the DAX index.

Blue-Chip Stocks Edge Higher Investors lifted blue-chip shares, but technology stocks fell.

"Large caps have lagged for so long," he said, noting that blue-chip shares have lagged behind small caps for around five years.

Aside from a few blue-chip shares he once bought for his children, he and his wife have always had their money in C.D.'s and Government bonds.

But investors resumed their general disregard for smokestack and other blue-chip shares, sending the Dow Jones industrial average, down as much as 118 points at one stage.

(Big Board advocates say that the exchange handles more than $20 trillion a day in trading of blue-chip shares without Archipelago, so how bad could it be?)

BUX Index is the official index of blue-chip shares listed on the Budapest Stock Exchange.

Nasdaq Rebounds After 2-Day Slide Technology stocks rebounded after a two-day downturn while blue-chip shares fell on earnings warnings.

The performance of the regional stock markets was solid last year, and mutual funds, stocked with blue-chip shares like Telebras, Telefonos de Mexico and Electrobras, performed well.

Why, then, did blue-chip shares take their biggest one-day drop in two years on news that the Federal Reserve was nudging up interest rates as a pre-emptive strike against the dread condition?

The market also benefited from some bargain-hunting for blue-chip shares by foreign investors, an inflow of money from a few Japanese mutual funds and a slight decline in short-term interest rates, analysts said.

It gave up its trading floor before most other exchanges; its computerised SEAQ trading system has been highly successful at pulling business in European blue-chip shares from continental bourses.

D4 Hong Kong Market Plummets Local investors joined the panic to exit the Hong Kong stock market, driving China-linked stocks down along with the already battered blue-chip shares.

Beyond buying blue-chip shares like HSBC Holdings and Hong Kong Telecom, the government has taken a complex set of long and short positions on August and September index futures contracts.

The benchmark index of the Bombay stock exchange fell 3.64 percent, with frantic selling in blue-chip shares, like those of Infosys Technologies, the leading software exporter, and Reliance Industries, the country's largest petrochemical company.

Toyoharu Tsutsui, head of equities at CS First Boston (Japan), said that in some ways the declines and the nervousness here were worse than was suggested by the Nikkei average, which concentrates on blue-chip shares.

The government controversially used the exchange fund to acquire HK$120 billion (US$15 billion) worth of blue-chip shares in a two-week market intervention, beginning 12 August 1998 with the aim of punishing and deterring currency speculators.