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Technology Stocks : Orckit (ORCT) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mad Bomber who wrote (1678)	1/19/1999 6:46:00 PM
From: savolainen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1998

[orctf as one of 30 top internet stocks (?)] well i've thought so for some time... ;) courtesy of Dorine Essey on the yahoo thread: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FRANKFURT, Jan 18 (Reuters) - German investment firm NICE* Internet Beteiligungs AG said on Monday it planned to launch an independent, global Internet index aimed at providing a benchmark for the booming sector. The NICE* Internet Index is based on a basket of 30-top Internet stocks, and the aim is eventually to provide a basis for futures trade, NICE* Chairman Ludger Langenberg told a news conference. Langenberg said talks were underway with major German banks to begin using the index. He declined to give further details. Internet indices like The Chicago Board Options Exchange's Internet Index .INX2 and the Thestreet.com Internet Index .DOT are already in operation and trading. The companies in the index are: 1&1 AG EIEG.F, Amazon.com AMZN.N, America Online AOL.N, Brokat BRJG.F, Check Point Software Technology CHKPF.O, Cisco Systems CSCO.O, Cybernet AG ZNET.OB, Egghead.com EGGS.O, E*Trade Group EGRP.O, Excite XCIT.O, GeoCities GCTY.O, Infoseek SEEK.O, Inktomi INKT.O, Intershop Communications ISHZ.S, Lernout&Hauspie LHAPF.O, Lycos LCOS.O, Macromedia MACR.O, Net.B@ank NTBK.O, Network Associates NETA.O, Olicom OLCMF.O, Onsale ONSL.O, Orckit Communications ORCTF.O, PSINet PSIX.O, Realnetworks RNWK.O, Security Dynamics Technologies SDTI.O, Spyglass SPYG.O, Sun Microsystems SUNW.O, Teles AG TLIG.F, Vocaltec VOCLF.O and Yahoo YHOO.O. REUTERS Rtr 10:13 01-18-99 Copyright 1999, Reuters News Service --------------------------------------------------------------------------------