ACROSS THE BOARD : THE WEEK AHEAD.MONDAY Treasury bill auction. TUESDAY: National Association of Realtors The National Association of Realtors (NAR) is made up of residential and commercial realtors who are brokers, salespeople, property managers, appraisers, and counselors, and others working in the real estate industry. releases existing home sales Existing Home Sales An economic indicator of both the number and prices of existing single family houses, condos and co-op sales over a one-month period. Released monthly by the U.S. for April. Treasury bill auction. The Conference Board releases the consumer confidence index Consumer Confidence Index A measure of consumer views regarding the current economic situation and consumer expectations for the future. Information for the index is compiled and released on the last Tuesday of each month by the Conference Board, an . WEDNESDAY: Commerce Department reports on durable goods for April. Treasury bill auction. House Small Business Committee hearing on effect of electronic commerce on small business. THURSDAY: Commerce Department reports on gross domestic product for the first quarter. FRIDAY: Commerce Department reports on personal income for April. Bond market closes early (11 a.m. PDT PDT abbr. Pacific Daylight Time PDT Pacific Daylight Time PDT n abbr (US) (= Pacific Daylight Time) → hora de verano del Pacífico PDT ) and commodity trading also is abbreviated in advance of Monday's Memorial Day holiday. BIZ BYTES BURGER BYTE: Would you like Internet access with that burger and fries? Fast-food restaurant owner Burger King opened a new franchise Thursday in Hartford with a high-tech twist. Along with the Whoppers
Whoppers are chocolate-coated malted milk balls produced by The Hershey Company. , the downtown store will offer customers two Internet surfing stations. Customers purchasing Burger King combo meals will be allowed 15 minutes of ``filtered'' Internet surfing. There will be no adult content allowed, and no sending and receiving of e-mail. Burger King said it has no plans to add Internet access to any of its 10,300 other restaurants, said spokesman Charles Nicolas. ``We'll evaluate it as it moves forward,'' he said. SITE OF THE WEEK REAL COOL: The latest must-have gizmo Slang for any hardware device. See gadget. to download off the Internet is at www.realnetwork.com, where the makers of the RealAudio and RealVideo data streaming standards have posted a jukebox program for storing and playing songs from your favorite CDs. Assuming your PC has a CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). player, the software lets you record songs to your hard drive at varying levels of compression and play them back later in any order you choose. The output also can be saved in MP3 format for playing on the new, portable MP3 players from the likes of Creative Labs. - Daily News |
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