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...grisly pictures and aggressive coverage of the coalition, al-Jazeera in particular has been treated as a fifth column in the West. U.S. and British officials condemned it for airing footage of allied POWs' corpses, and the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ have ejected al-Jazeera reporters. Hackers attacked its English-language website, replacing it with a red-white-and-blue U.S. map and the slogan LET FREEDOM RING. What better motto for people who shut down a news outlet...
Last week many Americans were suddenly citing the third convention; the NASDAQ said al-Jazeera's "alleged violation" of Geneva was a reason it was booting the network from its broadcast facility. Technically speaking, news outlets aren't signatories to the conventions, so they aren't bound by them. But al-Jazeera gets some Qatari government funding, and Iraqi TV is state...
...stock-market surges of all time, kicked off on Aug. 9, 1995, when the initial public offering (IPO) of stock in the Internet-browser maker Netscape rocketed from an expected initial price of $12 to an opening trade of $71. Hundreds of IPOs later, on March 10, 2000, the NASDAQ index hit the all-time high of 5132.52, from which it would fall 62% in just two years...
...trillion Gross Domestic Product (GDP). De Soto writes that the value is nearly that of “all the companies listed on the main stock exchanges of the world’s twenty most developed countries: New York, Tokyo, London, Frankfurt, Toronto, Paris, Milan, the NASDAQ, and a dozen others...
...small, listed American firm and move his own operations into its corporate shell. He has used such "backdoor listings" at home by buying a mango packer, shifting part of his meter business to it and renaming it Holley Science and Technology. For his U.S. debut, he chose a struggling, NASDAQ-listed California firm called American Champion Entertainment. Its main asset was a kids' TV show, Adventures with Kanga Roddy, about a karate-kicking marsupial. Wang paid $5 million in early 2001 for a controlling interest. Two months later, NASDAQ delisted the firm for having too low a share price...