Closing Bell

Time to catch up on blogging. A lot has happened in the past weeks. One highlight: on May 8 I walked the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). I had previously been to the the visitor gallery, but never actually had been on the floor where traders run from booth to booth and yell orders at each other.

I was at the exchange with McAfee's executive team. CEO Dave DeWalt was going to ring the closing bell to end the day's trading. DeWalt and his execs would be up on the balcony to do those honors, while I watched from the trading floor with a couple of other McAfee employees. (A video of the bell ringing is available here.



Prior to the bell ringing and right after CNBC and Bloomberg News interviewed Dave DeWalt on live TV and MarketWatch.com taped a segment that has since aired. It was quite an experience to be on the set of Closing Bell (CNBC's show from the NYSE floor). The interview is available on the CNBC Web site, if you're interested.

The day of the bell ringing was preceded by McAfee's investor and financial analyst meeting, an annual event in New York. Our IT team did a fantastic job putting together that meeting, with some help from the communications team.

One thing I noticed at the NYSE is that Wall St. in front of the building is now essentially closed to traffic. When I was there years ago it was a street filled with cars. Changing times, that I expect have to do with another sad sight I passed by in New York on the way to the Mecca of capitalism: Ground Zero.