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What are cookies?

Cookies are simply a method of identifying the computer you are using to the Stockwire web server. Normally when you connect to a web server to a get a web page you connect anonymously, download the page and then disconnect from the web server - so if you return to the server to get another page the web server has no way of knowing that you have visited previously. A 'cookie' is just a small piece of additional data that is downloaded to your computer when you visit a page, when you visit another page the cookie is passed back to the server by your browser. The server will use the returned cookie to perform certain processes, such as allowing access to restricted areas/facilities, auto-completing forms and so on.

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What information is stored in the cookies?

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• Microsoft Internet Explorer 5
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• Microsoft Internet Explorer 4
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What Are OTC Stocks?

OTC officially stands for "over the counter," but "over the computer" is more appropriate today. Long ago, to buy or sell a stock that didn't trade on a stock exchange, you would call your broker. He would call another broker and make the trade over the phone -- not a terribly efficient system. Then, in 1971, the Nasdaq was established, offering an automated stock quotation and trading system. Suddenly, it was much easier to get a good price on your transaction, and trading activity could be monitored.

Stocks listed on exchanges (such as the New York Stock Exchange) are traded face to face at one location, in "trading pits." All others are OTC stocks, traded electronically via a network of dealers across the country. The Nasdaq market is the main OTC system in America, listing more than 5,000 companies. It encompasses a range of firms, from young, relatively unknown enterprises to behemoths such as Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and Intel (Nasdaq: INTC). Thousands of more-obscure OTC companies that don't meet Nasdaq's listing requirements trade separately, often with their prices listed only once daily, on "pink sheets" or the OTC Bulletin Board.

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