A stock like Microsoft has a history of splitting. It's not the split that makes Microsoft a success. It's the success that makes the split.

It seems the stock market is more tuned to the bond market now than it has been in the past several months. As soon as we got oriented towards the bond market, all this economic data increased in significance.

[But stock strategists remained fairly optimistic, that the volatility that sent blue chips within grasp of a three-month low last week created buying opportunities.] The particular bullish case for the blue chips here is that they've really had a correction over the last month or so, ... I look for the blue chips to catch up with the rest of the market and make new highs later this month.

I'm not for splitting the job up. I think the commissioner should be the commissioner, but I think he's got to have some very strong people around him.

Microsoft has complied with our request, as has Yahoo and AOL. We have not analyzed the data yet.

Maybe Iraqis want to split up.