The combined legislation now goes to the Senate, where it will have to be reconciled with the weaker bill passed there. That bill has no provision to sue. President Clinton praised the house for passing its bill, but says there's still a lot of work to do to get the legislation finished, and all the provisions have to be paid for. From the Boston bureau at WGBH, this is Helen Palmer for Marketplace. Shares in the pharmaceutical company American Home Products rose 7.5 percent today, after as expected, the company agreed to a single settlement of thousands of lawsuits claiming health problems from the company's diet drug Fen-Phen.
Loose lips can sink ships and delay the debut of a new stock.
During this time, executives at Webvan, a company that lets you order groceries on-line, are supposed to refrain from saying anything about their company that's not already published in their official federal filings in advance of the stock's first day of trading. So, this Internet company that delivers groceries via on-line, Webvan, has a road show but it does it through a telephone conference call. And that's a no-no. They are supposed to stick to the same information. They are supposed to answer questions and give a little bit of granularity, but they are not supposed to present new information, which they did.