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Minding Your Business: Do-Not-Call List Proves to be a Hit

Aired July 01, 2003 - 07:48   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

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HEIDI COLLINS, CNN ANCHOR: That do-not-call list, you know, that everybody is talking about? It's getting a lot of calls.
Andy Serwer here "Minding Your Business."

ANDY SERWER, "FORTUNE" MAGAZINE: A new smash hit, right?

COLLINS: Oh, huge.

SERWER: I mean, and this thing has -- it's four days old now, Heidi. Over 10 million numbers registered already. And, of course, things got really bottled up the other day, didn't they?

COLLINS: Yes, it was slow in the very beginning. People had a hard time I think getting on. But now it's better.

SERWER: Yes, now they've added more power, and sort of the first wave of people has started to ebb a little bit. So, you can probably get on that donotcall.gov Web site.

We've talked about 10 million people, 158 numbers added per second at one point during the peak. I mean, it's truly amazing.

COLLINS: Yes.

SERWER: The telemarketers are not going to like this at all.

And we got an interesting thing here. This is Yahoo!'s most- searched for subjects just yesterday: No. 5, Britney Spears; No. 4, PlayStation 2; No. 3, Harry Potter; No. 2, donotcall.gov.

COLLINS: Yes.

SERWER: No. 1, by the way, KaZaA, that file-stealing -- I mean, file-sharing Web site. So...

COLLINS: Oh, yes. So, couldn't people who are getting on that, couldn't they kind of track those people and then go on from there?

SERWER: Right.

COLLINS: You never know.

SERWER: That's right, absolutely.

COLLINS: So, hey, the market yesterday was pretty good? SERWER: Yes. Yes, well, we just sort of tapered off there the last trading day of the quarter, but obviously just a stellar quarter for investors, one of the best since 1998. The Dow, you can see here, up 12. Nasdaq, you know, those tech stocks have been really soaring, maybe getting a little bit ahead of themselves. This week it's probably going to taper off. Thursday's a half-day. Friday, of course, no trading. And I think a lot of those people on Wall Street are going to be heading towards the beach as we get towards Wednesday and Thursday.

COLLINS: We all should be heading towards the beach, don't you think?

SERWER: You go that right.

COLLINS: All right, good. Andy, thank you so much.

SERWER: All right.

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Aired July 1, 2003 - 07:48   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
HEIDI COLLINS, CNN ANCHOR: That do-not-call list, you know, that everybody is talking about? It's getting a lot of calls.
Andy Serwer here "Minding Your Business."

ANDY SERWER, "FORTUNE" MAGAZINE: A new smash hit, right?

COLLINS: Oh, huge.

SERWER: I mean, and this thing has -- it's four days old now, Heidi. Over 10 million numbers registered already. And, of course, things got really bottled up the other day, didn't they?

COLLINS: Yes, it was slow in the very beginning. People had a hard time I think getting on. But now it's better.

SERWER: Yes, now they've added more power, and sort of the first wave of people has started to ebb a little bit. So, you can probably get on that donotcall.gov Web site.

We've talked about 10 million people, 158 numbers added per second at one point during the peak. I mean, it's truly amazing.

COLLINS: Yes.

SERWER: The telemarketers are not going to like this at all.

And we got an interesting thing here. This is Yahoo!'s most- searched for subjects just yesterday: No. 5, Britney Spears; No. 4, PlayStation 2; No. 3, Harry Potter; No. 2, donotcall.gov.

COLLINS: Yes.

SERWER: No. 1, by the way, KaZaA, that file-stealing -- I mean, file-sharing Web site. So...

COLLINS: Oh, yes. So, couldn't people who are getting on that, couldn't they kind of track those people and then go on from there?

SERWER: Right.

COLLINS: You never know.

SERWER: That's right, absolutely.

COLLINS: So, hey, the market yesterday was pretty good? SERWER: Yes. Yes, well, we just sort of tapered off there the last trading day of the quarter, but obviously just a stellar quarter for investors, one of the best since 1998. The Dow, you can see here, up 12. Nasdaq, you know, those tech stocks have been really soaring, maybe getting a little bit ahead of themselves. This week it's probably going to taper off. Thursday's a half-day. Friday, of course, no trading. And I think a lot of those people on Wall Street are going to be heading towards the beach as we get towards Wednesday and Thursday.

COLLINS: We all should be heading towards the beach, don't you think?

SERWER: You go that right.

COLLINS: All right, good. Andy, thank you so much.

SERWER: All right.

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