Thursday’s Tech Casualties

Sellers hammered technology stocks across the board Thursday, spooked by the growing list of companies warning about near-term profit weakness. How some of the worst-hit stocks fared: *--*

Thursday Ticker 52-week Thursday Thursday pctg. Stock symbol high close change change Nokia NOK $62.50 $41.06 -$14.75 -26.4% New Focus NUFO 165.13 105.00 -19.44 -15.6 VerticalNet VERT 148.38 48.06 -8.69 -15.3 Cypress Semicon. CY 58.00 36.50 -6.50 -15.1 Amazon.com AMZN 113.00 31.38 -4.69 -13.0 WorldCom WCOM 61.31 39.31 -5.44 -12.2 Vitesse Semicon. VTSS 115.69 57.63 -8.00 -12.2 Ciena CIEN 189.00 150.63 -16.44 -9.8 Applied Materials AMAT 115.00 74.31 -7.56 -9.2 Global Crossing GBLX 61.81 26.25 -2.25 -7.9 Broadcom BRCM 261.56 220.50 -17.94 -7.5 Motorola MOT 61.50 33.94 -2.69 -7.3 Micron Tech. MU 97.50 76.75 -5.75 -7.0 Nortel Networks NT 89.00 78.50 -5.50 -6.6 Qualcomm QCOM 200.00 65.56 -3.13 -4.6 Nasdaq composite 5,048.62 3,842.23 -145.49 -3.7

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Source: Reuters