Update to the update: 289 stocks now active in Hybrid Market Phase I

By: Ray Pellecchia

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This must be what they mean by fast market. I don't have time to pat myself on the back with one hand and down another Tim Hortons sweet one with the other hand, before my Hybrid Market colleagues have gone and added a whole lotta stocks to Phase I.

My nyse.com colleagues and I look up to discover we need to update the nyse.com.hybrid page -- no more pilot, it's just Phase I now -- and it's going to take us just a little bit to sort this out. Just know we're up to 289 and counting.

So I am not going to post my usual link to the list of activated stocks right now. The list is dissed at the moment. And I am not going to post the complete list of pilot stocks, because the SEC approval mooted the pilot. That list is hist-ory. Oh man, way too much sugar and caffeine.

But you know I AM absolutely going to tell you something about the number 289.

289 is the engine size of the HiPo (that's High Performance, don't you know) Classic Mustang of the 1965-67 vintage. Ford, of course, is another fine listed company here (NYSE: F). And of course, there are multiple Web sites devoted to the 289, and here's the first one I came across, being diligent and exhaustive in my research yet wanting to get outta here on a Friday afternoon.

Intermediate School 289 is located at 298 Warren St. here in the Big Apple. Proud students or graduates, please step forward.

289 is an area code in Canada (must be Canada day here today and I missed the memo) covering such locales as Saint Catharine's Thorold, Newmarket, Cobourg, Hamilton, Fort Erie, Cooksville, Welland, Oshawa (had enough?), Oakville, Dunnvile, Pickering and don't forget Brampton. I'm not gonna bother giving you that link, because that's about all that's there. And no doggerel either, though Oshawa is one wonderful name.

Volume 289 of Science reveals how the snapping shrimp produces a loud snapping sound to stun its prey: it uses cavitating bubbles. I always wondered about that -- it was the cavitating bubbles all along!

And the Wikipedia advises that in the year 289, Constantius Chlorus married Flavia Maximiana Theodora, stepdaughter of Maximian, after renouncing Helena, his wife and mother of Constantine the Great. How could he do that, after she raised a Great kid like Constantine?

Oh well. Sugar high crashing. Happy weekend.