THE R.O.B. INDEX

Companies AOL-Time Warner B8 Abitibi-Consolid. B8 Advanced Data B5 Air Canada B12 Alberta Energy B1 Algonquin Power B17 AT&T Corp. B5 Anvil Range B7 Applied Biosyst. B15 BCE Inc. B5 Ballard Power B17 Barnes & Noble B10 Bell ExpressVu B3 BellSouth Corp. B5 BioChem Phar. B17 Biomira Inc. B17 Biovail Inc. B17 Boeing Co. B10 Bowridge Res. B21 Brocker Tech. B21 Canada 3000 B7 CIBC B17 Celestica B17 Certicom Corp. B17 Citadel Diversif. B17 Clarke Inc. B17 Cominco Ltd. B7 Command Drill. B21 Consumers Packg. B3 Corel Corp. B4 Diagnos Inc. B5 Dynasty Compont. B5 Ejewelry LLC B7 Exfo Electro B17 eBay Inc. B16 Flagship Inds. B21 Fujitsu Ltd. B10 General Motors B3 Global Telecom B17 Guardian Capital B21 Hudson's Bay B7 Hydrogenics B21 Ice.com B7 Inco Ltd. B7 Infowave Softwr. B17 Intermap Tech. B21 iMagicTV B21 Loewen Group B21 Look Comm. B3 Lucent Tech. B10 MacKenzie Incm. B17 Mark's Work B3,21 Microcell Telecom. B1 J.P. Morgan B16 Multi-Manager B17 NAL Oil & Gas B17 Nav Canada B7 Netgraphe Inc. B21 New Millenium B17 Newcastle Mark. B17 Newell Rubbrmd. B17 Nissan Motor B10 Nortel Networks B17 Nycan Energy B21 Pacific Century B9 Pacifica Papers B17 Procter & Ga. B9,17 QLT Inc. B17 Quebecor Inc. B8 Quebecor Media B8 Quebecor World B8 Repadre Capital B21 Research Motion B17 Rogers Comm. B3 Royal Aviation B7 Royal Bank B17 Sceptre Invest. B17 Charles Schwab B9 Search Energy B21 Shaw Comm. B3 Siemens AG B10 Sixty Plus Incm. B17 Spire Energy B21 Sprint Corp. B5 Stella-Jones B17,21 Sun Life Financl. B16 Sun Media B8 TVA B8,17,21 Talisman Energy B1 Telesystem Ltd. B2 Telstra Corp. B5 Tesco Corp. B21 Tethys Energy B7 TD Bank B17 Triax CaRTS B17 Turbo Genset B21 United Parcel B10 VenCan Gold B21 Verizon Comm. B10 Vertigo Multimed. B2 Vidéotron B8 Vincor Int'l B3 Virgin Group B4,5 Voicestream Wirel. B5 West Fraser Tim. B17 Westshore Term. B17 Wi-LAN Inc. B17 World Strategic B17 YBM Magnex B7 Zi Corp. B17,21 Contents Amex B24 Bonds B19 CDNX B22 Careers M2 Comment B12 Commodities B25 Dilbert B13 Dividends B17 Drohan B12 Earnings B21 Equity options B23 Foreign exch. B22 Gold & silver B25 Grain B25 Indexes B17,25 Index options B21 Int'l Business B9 Internet dir. B13 London metals B17 MarketPlace B14 Milner B15 Money rates B17 Montreal B23 Mutual funds B18 Nasdaq B23 New York B24 Overseas B21 Toronto B20 Vox B12 Wall St. Journal B10 Willis B16 Working Life B13 ROBTv DYNAMIC POWER BREAKFAST: Xplore Technologies Corp. makes rugged computers that are becoming increasingly popular with police, military and emergency workers around the world. The Toronto company saw its earnings rise 340 per cent in the third quarter. President and CEO Brian Groh will talk about expansion plans for Europe. Live at 7:50 a.m. EST; rebroadcast at 9:50 a.m. MARKET CALL WITH JIM O'CONNELL: Michelle Calpin, portfolio manager at AIC Funds, will answer viewers' calls. Live at 12 p.m. EST; rebroadcast at 10 p.m. THE BOTTOM LINE WITH MICHAEL VAUGHAN: Financial Friday focuses on the week's activity in the markets. Bay Street Week features Veronika Hirsch of Hirsch Asset Management Corp., Ned Goodman of Dynamic Mutual Funds and Stephen Northfield, ROB National Editor of The Globe and Mail. CDNX Spotlight features Don Whiteley of Smallcapcenter.com and Mark Lackey of Brawley Cathers Ltd. And Lou's Last Word, the reflections of ROBTv equities analyst, Lou Schizas. Live at 6 p.m. EST; rebroadcast at 9 p.m. THE BUSINESS NEWS WITH ALI VELSHI: Jim Crocker, president and CEO of Virtek Vision, will talk about the company's operations. Live at 7 p.m. EST; rebroadcast at 11 p.m.