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Well, actually MS is now traded on the NYSE, which gives you a feeling for what type of company it has become.

Where did you get that information? I went to nyse.com and did a "Symbol Lookup" for Microsoft, which sent me to this page showing that Microsoft is a NASDAQ company.

So obviously it's not "now traded on the NYSE." Is it going to be?

Well, actually MS is now traded on the NYSE, which gives you a feeling for what type of company it has become.

Where did you get that information? I went to nyse.com and did a "Symbol Lookup" for Microsoft, which sent me to this page showing that Microsoft is a NASDAQ company.

So obviously it's not "now traded on the NYSE." Is it going to be?

Um traditional P/E for the NYSE is 19 during non-recession years so I don't know where you are getting 6 from. For two decades of figures see the last page of This pdf, for more historical info search around.

Marketrac. It's the only interesting app I've seen.

A very cool, very useful .application for visualizing one financial market. Make sure you choose the broadband option

If you want to tell the NYSE what you think about their efforts to tromp on freedom of expression, freedom of the press, freedom of information, etc., go here.

RC products. It's awful. Unbelievably awful.

You just ain't white trash enough to appreciate the delicate flavor combination created by drinking RC Cola and eating Moon Pies.

I actually used to buy RC all the time when I wanted a cola because I didn't want to give my money to Coca Cola or Pepsi Co., but now I live in Mexico, where just about everything is owned by one of 4 major companies.... Unlike the US where everything is owned by one of 20 major companies. ;)

RC products. It's awful. Unbelievably awful.

You just ain't white trash enough to appreciate the delicate flavor combination created by drinking RC Cola and eating Moon Pies.

I actually used to buy RC all the time when I wanted a cola because I didn't want to give my money to Coca Cola or Pepsi Co., but now I live in Mexico, where just about everything is owned by one of 4 major companies.... Unlike the US where everything is owned by one of 20 major companies. ;)

NEW YORK (AP) - The market winked it's eye today at Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE: YUM) as shares of the fast-food conglomerate shot up 1.68% today upon a report directly linking a reduction of colon cancer in their loyal consumer base with the food served at the variety of restaraunts under their corporate umbrella, including Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, and KFC. Further boosting the stock this Monday, the company reported earnings that were on target with previous estimates, and a strong indication Goldman Sachs plans on raising the stocks rating from from a "Buy" to a "Strong Buy."

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New York Stock Exchange.

NASDAQ.

1.How low can they go?

2. What is the President doing about it?

He's starting a war.

'Spam', as it is called, is a byproduct of the capitalist way of life. Businesses are forced to advertise online using the most intrusive means possible in order to scavange the crumbs of the pie of life. But what if we removed this artificial competition? Couldn't we replace with a society of mutual cooperation?

Now, I'm not saying that I hate America (in fact, I hold the founding tenets of understanding and tolerance dear to my heart), but every great civilization needs a few minor adjustments along the way. That, my comrades, is why I feel that it is time for America to embrace socialism.

Under socialism, spam would disappear! The Internet would be full of interesting and informative information, instead of the barren wasteland of corporate sanctioned propaganda it is today!

Of course, the change would be quite a shock to American culture, but is this not the nation that escaped the shackles of the tyrannical British!? Surely this cannot be so hard!?

For the sake of the children, I pray that it is not. I look forward to USA (the greatest nation on Earth) joining the rest of the developed world in the socialist paradise.

I looked up Vivendi's quote today on the NYSE, and here's the link: http://www.nyse.com/marketinfo/marketinfo.html?sym =V

For those who just want a quick reference, here's the 52-week spread:

HIGH
69.23
(4/27/01)

LOW
35.65
(TODAY)

And it's still going down.

Good move, Vivendi. No wonder you're trying to get as much cash as possible.

As part of my life at a previous employer (a well known Fortune 500/single-letter stock symbol on the NYSE company), I found out that I was supporting a piece of software for a very large contract with another company ... a few days before someone decided to start sending the 2000 model year production units into the database. The previous guy who had supported it had just quit a month or so after the guy who ran the software for three years had quit.

I did not know the software, nor did I know about that decision (Thanks, Pat!) so the unusually large file that I received that day was processed just like every other file had been. And so the fun began.

Two days later, when I pieced together the problem, I asked the DBAs to roll back to the Monday-night database backups. That made the situation worse by undoing three days worth of work by the local engineers. So, we had to roll the damaged database back in, and had to recover the lost data the hard way.

They would build a day's worth of production, and we would put two or three days worth of their missing data back into their system, so we slowly caught back up.

Five weeks later I gave my notice, and went to work in the I/S shop of a Pizza company.

Of course, this was a year and a half ahead of the "day" that the media focused on, so the whole thing was easily kept quiet and dusted under the rug. "Nope! No Y2K problems here!". Just like all of those credit card companies that did not handle "02/00" very well, in 1996.

However, consider that cyber-warfare might have larger effects than "regular" warfare. You seem to think that it's only the U.S. folks who could cause some serious trouble by means of hacking.

Not so. If someone "from the other side" hacked into NYSE or some other important business site, it might have catastrophic effects to your economy. And it'd affect everyone's life, not just those poor troops that were sent some 10000 miles away from home..