Good thing the item appeared on Friday when everyone across the water was too hung over to notice, otherwise the things would have lost at least 10% of their value in a single day’s trading: IBM Corp shares have been edging up off their lows in part because those new senior vice-president appointments were seen to signal that the benighted Akers era was drawing to a close but on Friday, the Wall Street Journal reported that John Akers had said that he had the board’s support, and while the traditional retiring age for the top managers at the company is 60, he might even stay on after his 60th birthday on December 28 1994.
