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Granted, I don't follow the stock market very often, but I just looked at their 3-month prices,and they dropped abou 50% in the last week! Anybody know what caused such a drop? (Granted, the entire market didn't so hot in the last week, but stilll....)

sorry, Here's the link
http://dynamic.nasdaq-amex.com/dynamic/IndexChart. asp?symbol=IXNDX&desc=Nasdaq-100&site=na sdaq&sec=nasdaq&months=84

Next time you feel the need to open your mouth you should think about whether you have anything of worth to offer up.

The numbers that are being thrown around here are ALL stock price * # of shares outstanding. That determines the market capitalization, or "worth" of a company. If you wanted to buy all of MS tomorrow you'd have to $578 billion. See here.

A Boycott is likely to be seriously damaging to Amazon's future business, since chances are that any customer that switches to one of their competitors, will stay away even when the boycott is over.

Presumably it would be sensible for any Amazon shareholders reading this to sell their shares as quickly as possible, before the traders pick up that Amazon are going to be in trouble.

In fact I'm tempted to indulge in some bear trading (i.e. sell some shares I don't own)

You can check out their stock price to see if it continues to fall when trading opens today.

Qwest has their fiber-optic lines setup so you don't need to dig them up to replace them. They just yank them out of the conduit. They have 2 conduits set up, one is full right now, the other is empty (if I recall), so they can string the fiber in it, with no digging up the lines.

Older companies like AT&T have to do more work to redo their fiber lines.

BTW, a post further down the line here there is a post which implies that Lucent makes fiber-optic lines for sale. I know they do optical research, but Corning makes the majority of the optical lines sold. Corning's symbol is GLW for interested investors.

• MS 12.3%
  
• Novell 13.8%
  
• L Michaels 9.2%
  
• D michaels 11.2%

• MS 12.3%
  
• Novell 13.8%
  
• L Michaels 9.2%
  
• D michaels 11.2%

They seem to be traded on NASDAQ.

Regards, Ralph.