Market Update 3:40PM: Fading further, fresh lows are again established. Each sector, aside from Telecom (+0.8%) continue to decline, with Energy now 3.0% lower, Healthcare off 1.1%, Discretionary down 1.0%, Financials and Industrials each 0.6% lower, and Tech giving up 0.5%. Along with the sectors' stances and the indices' losses, the market's breadth works to further evidence the bearish bias that has dominated trading. On both the NYSE and Nasdaq, declining issues maintain a two-to-one lead over their advancing counterparts. NYSE Adv/Dec 1157/2124, Nasdaq Adv/Dec...
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General Health Tip
Three Veggie Tips. 1) Keep your kitchen full of vegetables that won't spoil quickly -- onions, garlic, potatoes, winter squash, carrots. 2) At a salad bar, fill up your plate with salad greens first. 3) Next time you make pasta with vegetables, use half as much pasta and twice as many vegetables.
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Canadian Government Falls on No-Confidence Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin is applauded by Government House Leader Tony Valerie, right, after Martin's government was defeated by a no-confidence motion in the House of Commons in Ottawa, Monday Nov. 28, 2005. Canada's three opposition parties, which control a majority in Parliament, voted against Martin's government, claiming his Liberal Party no longer has the moral authority to lead the nation. (AP Photo/CP,Tom Hanson)
3:03 pm PT McCormick & Schmick's announces proposed offering of 1.2 mln shares (MSSR) :Co will offer 380,000 shares, and selling stockholders will offer the remaining 4,707,500 shares.
3:02 pm PT Dendreon announces 10 mln share offering under existing registration (DNDN) :
3:01 pm PT Akamai Tech Executive Chairman adopts 10b5-1 stock trading plan (AKAM) :Co announces that Executive Chairman George Conrades adopted a personal stock trading plan in Aug of 2005, pursuant to Rule 10b5-1 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Under the stock trading plan, Conrades plans to sell up to 1 mln shares of Akamai common stock over a period of approx six months, commencing on Dec 6, 2005, as part of a strategy for personal financial and estate planning purposes. Shares to be sold under the Rule 10b5-1 plan adopted by Conrades represent approx 18% of his personal holdings of Akamai common stock, including his vested stock options, as of today's date. Conrades also announced that he has gifted an aggregate of approx 450,000 shares of Akamai common stock to charitable interests.