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Source: Dun & Bradstreet...
Will the bug industry succeed? Last month the American Stock Exchange let investors hedge their hunches. It began trading futures options based on the 18-stock De Jager Year 2000 Index, made up of companies such as giant Dun & Bradstreet and smaller outfits like Data Dimensions and Viasoft that are racing to devise solutions. The options represent bundles of stocks in the index, named after the computer consulting firm De Jager & Co., which took a lead in addressing the 2000 issue. If these companies can't find a solution before the millennium, a new breed of speculators--call them bugbears...
...originally housed a general store and a tailor shop that was home to poet Anne Bradstreet. The four buildings were united under a common facade...
...Bradstreet, the multibillion-dollar business-information giant, said it would split itself into three companies. Unlike AT&T's reorganization, the move will not be coupled with huge job cuts: less than 2% of Dun & Bradstreet's 50,000 employees will...
...National Rifle Association has been slapped with the lowest possible credit rating by Dun & Bradstreet, a major credit-rating agency. The report of the gun lobby's failing financial strength and credit worthiness shows, "an organization that has dug itself a deep hole," according to accountant James Nesbitt, who audits non-profit groups. Following other reports that the NRA has run in the red since 1991 with a cumulative deficit of some $60 million, at least one NRA contractor is reviewing Dun & Bradstreet's four-page evaluation. Other banks and contractors might do the same, which according to Nesbitt, might...