The Five Dumbest Things on Wall Street This Week

1. Where's Katherine Harris When You Need Her?

So Hewlett-Packard (HWP Quote) shareholders have approved the company's acquisition of Compaq (CPQ Quote). Maybe.

See, H-P says it will take probably "the next few weeks" for IVS Associates, the independent tabulators of H-P's hotly contested shareholder vote, to count the ballots from the unknown percentage of H-P's 900,000 shareholders who voted on the company's future. ...