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...jumped 49%, making it the world's third-largest phone maker. Taming The Bucking Bull H Merrill Lynch will pay a $100 million penalty and make its analysts more independent, ending the New York attorney general's probe. The firm still faces lawsuits from investors. High-Stakes games H Microsoft is backing up its belief that video games are the wave of the future by pledging $2 billion to develop an online game network and the Xbox. Family Corrections H A judge ordered the return of a $1 billion stake in Gazprom that former managers sold to their relatives' firm...
...rally last Wednesday, the S&P 500 is down 8% for the year, the nasdaq has fallen 18%, and the Dow is down 1%. None of the major averages have dropped to their September low, though the nasdaq 100 (made up of the biggest stocks on that market, including Microsoft and Intel) is close. And already 1 in 8 stocks in the S&P 500 is below those September thresholds, including AOL Time Warner (which publishes TIME), Corning, EDS, Halliburton, IBM, Lilly, Merck and Verizon, reports Salomon Smith Barney...
...rally last Wednesday, the S&P 500 is down 8% for the year, the NASDAQ has fallen 18%, and the Dow is down 1%. None of the major averages have dropped to their September low, though the NASDAQ 100 (made up of the biggest stocks on that market, including Microsoft and Intel) is close. And already 1 in 8 stocks in the S&P 500 is below those September thresholds, including AOL Time Warner (which publishes TIME), Corning, EDS, Halliburton, IBM, Lilly, Merck and Verizon, reports Salomon Smith Barney...
Then make sure you have a working media player. The two most popular programs, RealNetwork's RealPlayer and Microsoft's Windows Media Player, are free, but you have to keep checking their websites for updates. Apple's iTunes, also free, comes with a built-in Internet radio player (preloaded with more than 250 stations), but it's strictly for Macs...
...PATTY STONESIFER Microsoft's top female exec quit her "all-absorbing" career in 1997 for more time with her teenagers. With her stock options, Stonesifer, now 46, can afford to kick back; today she co-chairs Bill Gates' charitable foundation...