Message-ID: <2590254.1075852862690.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 10:35:17 -0700 (PDT) From: msnmoneyupdate_029838@ms-moneycentral.customer-email.com To: houston <.ward@enron.com> Subject: Tech leads market down Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: "MSN Money Update" @ENRON X-To: Ward, Kim S (Houston) X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \KWARD (Non-Privileged)\Ward, Kim S (Houston)\Deleted Items X-Origin: Ward-K X-FileName: KWARD (Non-Privileged).pst =========================================================== *********************************************************** NEW! Would you like to receive this message in HTML instead of plain text? *********************************************************** Try the enhanced version of our market report mail. Get the latest report, index data and headlines. Sign in and select "HTML" http://moneycentral.msn.com/Comcenter/options.asp?returnURL=/Comcenter/email.asp =========================================================== The following data is best viewed in a Fixed Width font such as Courier. Leading Indexes(as of 10/25/2001 11:00 hours ET) http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/market/leading.asp Quotes supplied by Standard & Poor's Comstock and delayed at least 20 minutes. Data Source: http://www.spcomstock.com Name LEVEL CHANGE %Change -------- -------- ------- ------- Dow Jones Industrial Average 9,227.23 -118.39 -1.27% S & P 500 Index 1,071.54 -13.66 -1.26% Nasdaq Composite Index 1,698.70 -32.84 -1.90% Amex Composite Index 821.76 -1.81 -0.22% Russell 2000 Index 426.39 -1.26 -0.29% To personalize this e-mail with your own investments, sign up to add your portfolio. http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/invsub/alerts/ppemail.asp ** MSN Money Community ** Discuss the hot topic of the day on the message boards, Chat with CNBC personalities and investing experts, or post a question for one of our other financial experts. http://money.msn.com/community/highlights.asp ---------------------------------------------- Market Summary (as of 10/25/2001 11:00 hours ET) http://moneycentral.msn.com/articles/common/summary.asp Tech leads market down Provided by MSN Money This was supposed to be a big day for technology companies. And it is turning into a big day on Wall Street, but a big day the wrong way.

The Dow is off more than 150 points, or 2%, and the Nasdaq off about 2.5%, at 11 a.m., while the technology indexes are getting hammered. The Amex Networking Index is off almost 4%, the key semiconductor index is off about the same and the Amex computer technology index is off 3%.

Most notably, Microsoft is down 2% this morning, just as the company releases its much-touted Windows XP operating system. (Microsoft is the parent of MSN Money.) The software has been widely praised, but will users rush in to pay $100 or more to upgrade to it? Investors, at least, don't seem to think so.

If there's doubt that software at a couple hundred bucks will move in this economy, there's even more about computers at a couple thousand.

Computer makers have also long been expecting a rush as users trade in their four and five-year-old systems for gadgets that will run XP. But makers like Compaq, Dell Computer and Gateway are all getting blasted this morning. Full day's coverage: http://moneycentral.msn.com/articles/common/summary.asp ============================================================== Today's update brought to you by MSN Money -- The best place to invest. http://moneycentral.msn.com If you would like to unsubscribe from the MSN Money Market Summary Email go to http://money.msn.com/investor/invsub/alerts/ppemail.asp or reply to this message and type "Unsubscribe" in the subject line of the message. Thank you. ============================================================== This email was sent to: kim.ward@enron.com