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Morgan Stanley cut 1,500 jobs this week: source
(Reuters)
Reuters - Morgan Stanley cut 1,500 jobs
this week across its investment banking, trading and asset
management businesses, a person familiar with the situation
said Friday, a 5 percent reduction of non-broker employees.
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Wall St ends flat as energy gains offset sentiment
(Reuters)
Reuters - Stocks finished little changed on
Friday as surging oil prices lifted energy shares and offset
data that showed consumer confidence sank to its lowest in 28
years.
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Consumers' mood as grim as early-80s
(Reuters)
Reuters - U.S. consumer confidence tumbled to a
28-year low this month as rising prices strained household
finances, while another drop in single-family housing starts
underscored problems still plaguing the economy.
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American Axle and UAW reach tentative agreement
(Reuters)
Reuters - The United Auto Workers and American
Axle & Manufacturing Holdings Inc reached a tentative
contract agreement late Friday aimed at ending an 11-week-long
strike that had triggered thousands of layoffs and cost General
Motors Corp at least $1 billion.
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Lehman Brothers job cuts to start next week: report
(Reuters)
Reuters - Investment bank Lehman Brothers
Holdings Inc will begin cutting jobs starting next
week, CNBC Television reported on Friday, without citing
sources.
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Quake Unlikely To Derail China's Economy
(Investor's Business Daily)
Investor's Business Daily - While China grapples with the devastating May 12 earthquake in Sichuan -- now thought to have killed 50,000 people, leaving 5 million homeless and property damage at $20 billion -- the economic toll may be mild, analysts say.
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Pinger 1.1 |
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ALSEDI Pinger is a small Freeware utility displaying connection status to specified site/host. It uses standard Ping (ICMP) protocol to check host availability, so it can be used to monitor connection status to any site, like google.com or any computer in your home/office network. |
[License: Freeware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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Testing Master 1.7 |
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Testing Master is a load and stress testing tool that provides you with an easy to use, consistent and cost-effective way of testing web sites and intranet applications with web interface. Using Testing Master you can test and analyze the performance characteristics and bottlenecks of a web site under various load conditions.
Testing Master emulates th... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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Paessler WMI Tester 1.1.02 |
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Paessler WMI Tester is a tool for quickly and easily testing the accessibility of WMI counters. "Windows Management Instrumentation" is the latest technology from Microsoft for monitoring and managing Windows based systems. WMI allows a process to read data for many Windows' configuration parameters as well as current system status values.Access can take ... |
[License: Freeware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista] |
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JBlitz Professional 5.1 |
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Advanced load, performance and functional testing for your website, web service or web enabled application. JBlitz Pro 5.1 load tests your web software by simulating multiple concurrent virtual users whilst validating each response received. Fully featured (SSL, proxy, authentication, logging, graphing, stats, HTTP debugging etc).Includes a full Java API ... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Linux] |
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Paessler SNMP Tester 2.2 |
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With Paessler SNMP Tester you can run simple SNMP requests against a device in your network. During the test each single step of the SNMP request is logged into a logfile for analysis. The idea of this free program is to debug SNMP requests down to the protocol level in order to find communication and/or data problems in SNMP monitoring configurations.Jus... |
[License: Freeware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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MobdusConstructor 1.0 |
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Using MBConstructor you can quickly create a data management model for any of your MODBUS devices. Unlike other available solutions on the market which provide displaying data as columns of abstract numbers of the same type, Modbus Constructor represents each data element exactly as you need. You may define type, format or scale independently. This makes ... |
[License: Shareware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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TrafficEmulator 1.4 |
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Nsasoft Network Traffic Emulator generates IP/ICMP/TCP/UDP traffic from clients to server to stress test servers, routers and firewalls under heavy network load. It is a very simple and fast program which can simulate client activity. The tool is designed with a user-friendly interface and is easy to use.... |
[License: Freeware, Rating: , Operating system: Windows 2000,Windows XP] |
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