PST Yahoo shares remain unscathed Tuesday in the wake of a crash that left users unable to access the Internet's second-most visited domain for nearly three hours. Wired News delivered to your inbox or hand-held device. It helped that Tuesday was an upbeat day for stocks and for Internet companies in particular. Fueling the rally was economic news that fourth-quarter productivity, measuring the output per hour of workers outside the farm sector, reached its fastest pace of growth in seven years. Although a few posters mentioned the site failure, few saw it as a reason to sell or a sign of an impending stock drop.
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Possibly because the failure was blamed on hackers rather than on an internal glitch, Yahoo got kinder treatment from investors than other prominent sites that suffered high-profile glitches in recent months. An eBay site crash last August, for example, aided in dragging down shares of the company by about 15 percent in a single day's trading. Brokerages like Charles Schwab and Etrade took beatings in the wake of site crashes last year. Send it . Use this version.