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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (72698)	1/2/2000 8:19:00 AM
From: re3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

michael i was curious about how t bonds did this past year, and remember, a bond fund would have cost peoples more than a 14 % loss, with the mer's...i'll be watching here to see how some canuck bond funds fared. were there any stats on how popular us bond funds fared ?

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (72698)	1/2/2000 8:21:00 AM
From: re3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

question...does anyone know how to determine the composition of a sub index...i'd prefer to do this on yahoo, but say i want to know what is in the xle (oil sub index) ...whats the best way to get this info ? i'd prefer to be able to key in the symbol in some way to be able to view the quotes for all the components in there...it would be nice to look at all of the dow in one glance too tia

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (72698)	1/2/2000 9:48:00 AM
From: Don Lloyd	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

MB - "...Trained rats may be the best and cheapest form of landmine detector, Belgian researchers said Thursday. Antwerp-based research group Apopo said it had taught its African Giant Pouched rats to recognize the smell of dynamite and believed the rodents were ready to start training in earnest in Tanzania..." news.excite.com Dateline: Tanzania 10/10/10 Researchers report that a full 24 months have passed since the last Tanzanian casualty caused by an exploding landmine. In other news, a horde of rats is denying the Tanzanian National Guard access to its State Armory, as they have it surrounded and are staging a sit-down hunger strike. Regards, Don

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (72698)	1/2/2000 9:56:00 AM
From: Les H	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

THE LESS IS MORE AWARD (courtesy of NY Times) To Carly Fiorina, the new chief executive of Hewlett-Packard. Under her leadership, the company -- which had been known as a model for full disclosure of quarterly results -- has significantly reduced the amount of data it gives to investors and analysts in its conference calls. In its fourth-quarter conference call on Nov. 17, the company said it would henceforth provide actual figures on companywide orders only when it thought they were meaningful. "What we want to do is spend time providing accurate, insightful information," said Marlene Somsak, manager of media and financial communications for Hewlett-Packard, "not information that is potentially misleading." It was not immediately clear how dispensing more information could be misleading.

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (72698)	1/2/2000 9:58:00 AM
From: dave kaiser	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

At what time does the overseas markets start trading and how can I find out how they are doing?