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I had a student today who was needing to find companies who were no longer members of the S&P 500. On the Standard & Poor’s website, you can an overview of the list, a list of constituents, and more. The list of constituents can be browsed by date month, date, and year, back to the year 2000. Also, the site has a list of Index Changes which record additions and deletions to and from the list.

For other stock, equity, and investing information, be sure to consult these sources in the Biz Wiki.

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Many of our cluster students are doing research on the automobile industry at this time.  They may find this article on MSNBC interesting.  Customers buying Ford trucks in the next year will have the option of adding a computer to their ride.

The factory-installed Work Solutions package includes an in-dash computer with a 6.5-inch touch screen powered by Microsoft Windows CE and Windows Autos. It connects to the Internet via Sprint cellular broadband and is compatible with Bluetooth-enabled phones for hands-free calling.

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Business Week offers a snapshot of Dubai, which many in the PRCM 150 classes might find useful for their current project.  Here’s an excerpt:

The city is an exciting place for a Middle East correspondent. Nowhere else in the region are there so many young, ambitious and well-educated North Africans, Syrians, Lebanese, Iraqis and Saudis who have turned their backs on their repressive countries. Dubai is a global village, but even more than that, it is an Arab village.

On my street there is a mosque run by Egyptians to the right of my house, as well as a Palestinian convenience store, an Indian flower shop and two villas owned by wealthy Emiratis. On the left-hand side, eight houses are clustered around a garden area shared by tenants from Iran, Germany, Egypt, Lebanon, France, Congo, Hungary and South Africa. On Fridays the street is lined with the limousines of wealthy Arabs and the bicycles of Pakistani workers, all men who have brought their sons to the mosque for prayers. The lingua franca is English, manners are civil and even the Yemenis obey the rules of the road, which are every bit as strict as they are in Europe.

As a reminder, other country and cultural information can be found on my Doing Business in Another Country guide.

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I’d like to thank the BA 100 students for giving me the opportunity to speak to them this week. I’ll be speaking a little about the basics of business research and demonstrating a few of our business databases. Following the class, students are asked to complete the short research assignment. The purpose of this assignment is to help you become more familiar with business research tools. The assignment offers practical, hands-on experience with the resources that were demonstrated in class.  Results of the assignment will be forwarded to Mike Bila at the end of the quarter.

Click here to access the BA 100 Research Assignment

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Business Week weighs in with  which ads deserved and thumbs up, and which ones did not.  Take a look at the grades, and the commercials here.

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