Zeev,"Finally, last week we saw the smallest number of issues traded on the NASDAQ since January of 1984! The number of issues peaked at 6136 in December of 1996 and has been slowly declining since then to the current 3984 issues. Over 2000 company names have merged, failed, moved to the NYSE or otherwise disappeared in six years!" This is from Tom Veal's AIM newsletter of 8/26/02 http://www.aim-users.com/oldbbs.htm