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To: Glenn D. Rudolph who wrote (14805)	10/15/1998 7:04:00 PM
From: Bill Harmond	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27307

>>It was wrong to do it during market hours. What difference would it make? The Fed usually announces policy changes during market hours anyway.

To: Glenn D. Rudolph who wrote (14805)	10/15/1998 7:07:00 PM
From: Bill Harmond	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27307

Looks like Yahoo has pulled even farther ahead of Excite: ...traffic to its Web site totaled 50 million average page views per day in September, up 15 percent from June. biz.yahoo.com

To: Glenn D. Rudolph who wrote (14805)	10/17/1998 6:45:00 PM
From: zax	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27307

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