BT's current resilience should bring a little relief to a sector that has been reeling from a string of negative announcements.

We try to bring a variety of movements.

If there is going to be a sector that should be naturally inclined towards online resilience, you would expect it to be the retail sector.

We're reeling. Everything is up on the table and we are going to be under this cloud for a while. For a long time, people have been so focused on earnings that corporate America realized that they can get away with playing games with the balance sheet, and now it's catching up with them.

The market is becoming very nervous about the earnings outlook for the tech sector after a string of bearish outlooks by tech giants such as Nortel and Sun Microsystems.

[The controversy in the IT (information technology) career sector over the H-1B visa has again come into stark relief, as techies.com releases a new survey of more than 1,100 tech professionals. The techies.com site is a leading hub of IT industry issues.] And the tech workers we surveyed, ... think it can affect their job security and pay scales.