The stock would be under more pressure, except winding down a costly store-makeover program a while back has let Safeway ramp up its share-buyback program.
If the state wins, eliminating the fines and other penalties could help the football program climb backup the ranks of the most valuable college football programs in the country.
Back then, program trading, computer robotic dealers caused an avalanche of selling that blew up the markets in a catastrophic vicious circle of robot trading.