The Observer 100 Index: Mind the Gap!

One easy way to take New York’s temperature as its health gets sorted out is to follow the stocks that define it: We assembled the Observer 100 Index to watch the city wheeze and sing. These are the stocks that gained and lost the most last week, when when sensible blue jeans beat Ron Perelman’s Read More

The Observer 100 Index: Martha Thrives, Brides Cry

One easy way to take New York’s temperature as its health gets sorted out is to follow the stocks that define it: We assembled the Observer 100 Index to watch the city wheeze and sing. These are the stocks that gained and lost the most last week, when Martha and Liz beat brides and exercisers Read More

The Observer 100 Index: Week Four

One easy way to take New York’s temperature as its health gets sorted out is to follow the stocks that define it. We assembled the Observer 100 Index to watch the city wheeze and sing. Sadly, last week was atrocious: By Friday, despite unexpectedly nice news about unemployment, the Dow Read More

The Observer 100 Index: Week One

This year will bring either a dazzlingly financial apocalypse (the analyst Howard Davidowitz has said we’re on “a death march”), a revival that catapults New York into a new era of giddy splendor, or an uneven and slow sludge back to normalcy. Manhattan will expire, sparkle, or crawl.

One comparatively easy way to take the Read More

Introducing the Observer 100 Index

This year will bring either a dazzlingly financial apocalypse (the analyst Howard Davidowitz has said we’re on “a death march”), a revival that catapults New York into a new era of giddy splendor, or an uneven and slow sludge back to normalcy. Manhattan will expire, sparkle, or crawl.

One comparatively easy way to take the Read More

The Observer 100 Index: The List

One comparatively easy way to take the city’s temperature as its health gets sorted out is to follow the stocks that define it. We assembled The Observer 100 Index to watch the city wheeze, cough, sigh, and sing. The rule was to pick the public American stocks (which means no LVMH, which is foreign, no Read More