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Internet Market Close Report for 1998.12.04

Written By
Steve Harmon
Steve Harmon
Dec 4, 1998
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04-Dec-98
point change
% change

ISDEX
216.31
2.95
1.38%

NASDAQ
2,003.16
48.83
2.50%

DJIA
9,016.14
136.46
1.54%

  • uBid (NASDAQ:UBID), a Web auction service, jumps 220% from its $15 IPO price, closing at $48 per share. UBID climbed as high as $60.25 per share on its 1.58 million offer through Merrill Lynch, UBID opens at $40 and loses some ground to $34.125 per share in early trading before closing above its open.

  • Vignette is back at the IPO plate in an effort to raise as much as $30 million through underwriter Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, following Vignette’s cancellation of its IPO plans six weeks ago. Vignette makes StoryServer software, a Web content management package used by more than 40 companies including Lands End, Hewlett-Packard, National Semiconductor, Bay Networks, ZDNet, CNET and Internet.com (producer of this report).



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