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- From: hwhalen@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (Hugh Whalen)
- Subject: Re: Future of OS/2 and IBM????????????
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.155122.8587@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca>
- Sender: Hugh Whalen
- Organization: Faculty of Administration, University of New Brunswick
- References: <1992Dec15.210437.934@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> <1992Dec16.072137.28867@sequent.com> <1992Dec16.152535.12204@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca> <1992Dec17.134511.18616@csi.uottawa.ca>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 15:51:22 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec17.134511.18616@csi.uottawa.ca> gagnon@aix1.uottawa.ca (Jean-Serge Gagnon 564-7183) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec16.152535.12204@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca> hwhalen@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (Hugh Whalen) writes:
- >>In article <1992Dec16.072137.28867@sequent.com> furballs@sequent.com (Paul Penrod) writes:
- >>>In article <1992Dec15.210437.934@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> ashwath@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Ashwath Ram) writes:
- >>[Stuff about IBM laying off 25,000 people deleted]
- >>>IBM is among the most conservative of the blue chip stock companies
- >>>and has long earned it's reputation as a stable commodity in the
- >>
- >>Ahem .... stable? I believe that around 1987 IBM stock was trading at
- >>approximately $178 per share. Yesterday it was trading at $56 per
- >>share. God help us if this is stability. :)
- >
- >This doesn't belong here, but I wish people would talk when they knew what
- >they were talking about!!!! Have you ever heard of "spliting"? It's a
- >process in which a stock is doubled, and it's value is divided. For example
- >an IBM share that was worth $178 in 1985 would split and then you'd have
- >two shares, each worth $89, which is exactly the same thing. Since the time
- >when the share was worth $178, IBM shares have split twice, meaning that
- >whoever had one (1) share worth $178, today has four (4) shares worth $56.
- >In other words, this person has $224 for a cost of $178 (or less, of course).
- >
- >So PLEASE, make sure you know what you're talking about, before saying
- >something so drasticaly influential to the minds of people who REALLY have
- >no idea what it means other that money.
- >
- >PLEASE, no flames, I just wanted to straghten this out. If a discussion
- >arises from this, please note I have set follow-up to talk.bizzare.
- >
- >Thanks.
- >--
- >Jean-Serge Gagnon, Ottawa University, Ottawa, Canada K1N 6N5
- >(613)564-7517 fax:(613)564-7819 email:jsg8a@acadvm1.uottawa.ca
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