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Company: American Express [AXP] Closing Price (3/30/04): 51.91 News: American Express and Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) have agreed that ICBC will issue the first American Express-branded credit cards in China. ICBC will issue a line of American Express-branded cards that will be denominated in both local Chinese currency and U.S. Dollars. 52 Week High/Low: 54.99/34.05 Company: Discover [MWD] Closing Price (3/30/04): 57.16 News: Morgan Stanley is the USO's newest World Partner through a $250,000 donation to help fund programs and services for military personnel stationed around the world. 52 Week High/Low: 62.83/40.15 Company: Bank One [ONE] Closing Price (3/30/04): 54.55 News: Bank One has made a $45,000 grant to the Tucson Urban League to help consumers learn more about managing their money. Bank One is also providing training to Urban League case managers who will administer the Money Smart financial literacy program in both English and Spanish. 52 Week High/Low: 57.49/34.30 Company: Capital One [COF] Closing Price (3/30/04): 75.78 News: Consumer Action and Capital One announced their joint MoneyWi$e financial literacy partnership will grant more than $125,000 to 36 community- based non- profit organizations in 8 states. 52 Week High/Low: 76.71/31.70 Company: Providian Financial Corp. [PVN] Closing Price (3/30/04): 13.05 News: Providian Financial Corp. has agreed to sell $250,000,000 in original principal amount of its 2-3/4% Convertible Cash to Accreting Senior Notes due March 15, 2016 through Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Morgan Stanley & Co. as joint book-running managers and JPMorgan and Deutsche Bank Securities as co-managers. Providian may also sell an additional $37,500,000 original principal amount of the notes upon exercise of an over allotment option granted to the underwriters in connection with the offering. 52 Week High/Low: 14.20/6.75 Company: Household [HBC] Closing Price (3/30/04): 75 News: HSBC Bank USA has introduced a free checking product at all of its 400 New York State branches. The free checking introduction also features a "Tell-A- Friend" component through which current HSBC customers can refer family and friends to open new checking accounts, and both will receive a pair of Bushnell binoculars. 52 Week High/Low: 82.90/51.42 Company: Citibank [C] Closing Price (3/30/04): 51.94 News: Citigroup and KorAm Bank have announced that Citibank Overseas Investment Corp. will exercise its previously announced tender offer to acquire up to 63.45% of the outstanding shares of the common stock of KorAm Bank at a price of KRW 15,500 per share in cash. Citigroup has also agreed to purchase from an investor consortium led by The Carlyle Group and JP Morgan Corsair II, 36.55% of the shares of KorAm Bank at the same price. 52 Week High/Low: 51.97/36.30 Company: JPMorgan Chase [JPM] Closing Price (3/30/04): 41.98 News: J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. has announced the establishment of a new Office of Environmental Affairs, devoted to increasing the firm's focus on the environment and on individual communities. Amy Hayes Davidsen will serve as director of the new office. 52 Week High/Low: 43.84/24.62 Company: MBNA Corp. [KRB] Closing Price (3/30/04): 27.69 News: MBNA Corp. and its subsidiary, MBNA America Bank, N.A., will issue $350 million in credit card asset backed notes, through the MBNA Credit Card Master Note Trust. 52 Week High/Low: 29.05/15.45 Company: Fiserv [FISV] Closing Price (3/30/04): 35.76 News: The Vision unit of Fiserv, Inc. signed 76 new client contracts last year for core account processing as financial institutions responded to Fiserv Vision's new technology direction. 52 Week High/Low: 40.77/28.64 Company: Bank of America [BAC] Closing Price (3/30/04): 81.77 News: Banc of America Securities LLC has hired Don MacDougall as a managing director and equity research analyst covering the Electrical Equipment and Multi-Industry sectors. 52 Week High/Low: 84.90/68.82 Company: EFunds Corp. [EFD] Closing Price (3/30/04): 16.8 News: U.S. Central has selected eFunds Corp.'s Automated Clearing House Processing System (ACHPS) to support its ACH business. While terms of the agreement were not disclosed, implementation began in February upon contract signing and the first transaction is scheduled to go live in the latter half of 2004. 52 Week High/Low: 18.75/6.87 Company: Hypercom Corp. [HYC] Closing Price (3/30/04): 7.96 News: Morgan Keegan & Co., Inc. initiated research coverage on Hypercom effective March 22. 52 Week High/Low: 8.00/3.69 Company: NCR Corp. [NCR] Closing Price (3/30/04): 43.3 News: Big Lots, Inc. [BLI] has acquired an enterprise data warehouse and associated analytical tools from Teradata, a division of NCR Corp. 52 Week High/Low: 46.11/18.25 Company: Metavante [MI] Closing Price (3/30/04): 37.91 News: Metavante Corp. and KANA [KANA] have agreed to add the KANA Response Live solution to Metavante Corporate Electronic Banking. 52 Week High/Low: 40.64/25.78 Company: Equifax [EFX] Closing Price (3/30/04): 25.62 News: -- 52 Week High/Low: 27.59/19.51 Company: Fair Isaac [FIC] Closing Price (3/30/04): 36.13 News: Talk America has selected Fair Isaac Corp.'s TelAdaptive account management service. 52 Week High/Low: 43.12/30.28 Company: ACI Worldwide [TSAI] Closing Price (3/30/04): 23.11 News: SIMTEL, an organization set up by the Rwandan government to modernize the national payments network, has chosen ACI's BASE24-es as the foundation for The Republic of Rwanda's new national inter-bank card payments network. SIMTEL is also implementing the ACI Card Management System for the management of card accounts and personalization. 52 Week High/Low: 25.08/5.36 Company: VeriSign, Inc. [VRSN] Closing Price (3/30/04): 16.79 News: VeriSign, Inc. announced its Intelligent Communications, Commerce and Content Services (IC3) strategy to help carriers of all sizes deliver integrated, next-generation services. 52 Week High/Low: 21.09/8.70 Company: First Data Corp. [FDC] Closing Price (3/30/04): 42.21 News: -- 52 Week High/Low: 44.90/32.50