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Show The Salt Lake TribuneBUSINESS Friday, January 29, 1999 What you need to know about the New York, Amencan and NASDAQ exchanges. PE Val ee 18% De} WASHINGTON — The Commerce Departmentoffered a glim- mer of hope Thursday to struggling U.S. steel producers, reporting that imports into the United States dropped 31 percent in December. More dramatic reductions were recorded for imports from Japan and Russia, two of the countries blamed for a recent import surge that contributed to more than 10,000 U.S.layoffs. Commerce Secretary William Daley said he was encouraged by the figures but vowedto continue 5¢ 54 =625¢ Y= 75 1, 27 .Stock Name: This the abbreviation issued to each stock. The ‘Symbol uses no spaces. It you footnote @ Footnotes: u — A new 52-week high. d — Anew 52-week low g— Dividends or eamings Canadian money. Stock trades in U.S. dollars. No yield orPE uniess stated in U.S. money. n — New issuein the past 52 weeks. High-low range begins wit the start oftrading and does not cover the entire 52-week pert ‘0d. s— r Split or stock dividend of 25 percent or more in the Thehigh-low range Specialpayments not designated assiege ar ‘identified in the following a —Also extra or extra b — Annual rate plus stock ividend. ‘¢ — Liquidating dividend. e — Deciared or paid in preceding ete i — Declared or paid af : valu d Sewondees ights. y— in full 2—Salesin ul. pt— Prefered or purchase price. rt— hen distnbuted. wi — When those of 1997, before the Asian economic crisis lowered demand high.” Paul Wilhelm, president of U.S. Steel Group,said the industry will file additional trade complaints as early as next month, dealing with ton this year, an e wt ith ae in arrears. r — Declared or Despite the one-month drop, import levels werestill higher than Specter, R-Pa., leader of the Senate Steel Caucus. “It’s still too ee or split- up. j— Paid this year, dividend o takenalastdividend meeting, k— Declaredpaid whether to seek trade sanctions. from 106 to 104,” said Sen. Arlen old stock. Dividend begins with thedate of split or stock dividend. v Tradinghalted on theprimary market. monitoring the data to determine for steel abroad and forced foreign producers to seek U.S. outlets. “The temperature was lowered a space, itis to set aside a o8s8 Steel Imports Decline, Offering a Little Hope ww — With warrants. xw — Without y oF receivership or being reorgaassumed by such companies, @ PE: Price’Eamings ratio. The current market price of a com. pany/s slack expressed as multiple of its total per share eamings for the previous 12 months, @ Vol: Number of shares, in hundreds, that traded hands. @ Last: Thelast price the stock sold for, or the closing price. day's closing price and the Chg: The change betwee previousday's close. different steel products. Yahoo! Buying Rival GeoCities Inc.for $5B NEW YORK — Yahoo! Inc., one of the top sites on the Internet, is buying rival GeoCities Inc. for NYSE Vol Name Vol Rc 65 63539 353310/'6 Briesc Dor BNAot ISH — 4 ABNAm 589 1975 + ACE Lis $8 377537 acinus gs: BOTseh» 108 16% $5.02billion, a dealthat will broaden Yahoo!'s array of Webservices to allow customers to set up home pages or chat with others on a vast arrayof topics. The purchase is the latest in a spree of deals that are helping transform the Internet from a cha- otic collection of disparate sites into a more organized place to shop, do research and exchangein- formation. Such deals are also creating a moreeffective mediumfor advertisers andretailers. “From a consumer perspective, these companies will come together so the consumer experience be- comesricher,”said Sajai Krishnan, a principal with the consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton. “The Internet starts delivering on all the hype.It starts becoming easier to use, less complicated.” Intel Dividing Shares For More Affordability SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Intel Corp. announced a 2-for-1 stock split, the latest big-name company to divide its shares to make them moreaffordableto investors. Intel, the world’s largest com- puter chipmaker with $26.2 billion in sales last year, said the split takes effect April 11 ‘The split wouldbe the12th since Intel went public 26 years ago. The last split, also 2-for-1, was in June 1997. The companyhas 1.67billion shares of stock outstanding. Several other high tech comp. nies have announced stock splits this month, including Microsoft Corp., Sun MicrosystemsInc., eBay Ine, and Yahoo!Ine Intel makes about 85 percent of the world's computer processors, and manufactures memory chips plus hardware for computer net works, communications and graph ics. Judge Orders Microsoft To Surrender E-Mail WASHINGTON — The judge whowill decidethe Microsoft anti- trust trial ordered the companyon ‘Thursday to surrenderacontested e-mail that threatens to undermine oneof its legal arguments. ‘Theinternal e-mail froma soft wareengineer in October 1998 explains in unprecedented detail some of the ways Microsoft com $29 QunNSP 318 OE TM bined its Internet browsersoftware into its dominant Windows operat. ing system. The government charges the combination amounts NYSE Actives NASDAQ Actives —_Vel_\ast (Name____Yol_\_ ho ny claimed the note was covered NYSE Gainers Preman 6 to illegal “tying” under federal antitrust law Microsoft's unease about the email was evidentin efforts to avoid turning it over. In part, the compa under attorney privilege because one of its lawyers was included in the e-mail’s “ee” field field Jackson “I'm not trying to hide the ball here,” the judge or dered Microsoft to turn it oyer GarayNs 1i ' ia — NYSE gee Nome oe + WALD 2 ont Cover ¥Paobs ren st “Of course, copying a document to an attorney does not makeit privileged,” the government com: plained in court papers that called theargument spurious, After lawyer Steven Holley told U.S, District Judge Thomas Pen- s8888< | Name pers SS eeeRe BUSINESS GLANCE Reading the Quotations chor Mt GRADECOPPERCOMK 15,00 BA |
