Executive Business Briefing -- Wall Street succumbed to more profit taking on an aimless Friday. The Dow Jones industrials were down 37 points at 10,829. Standard and Poor's 500-stock index was off over 8.5 points at 1330. The New York Exchange composite index was down over 2.5 points at just under 637. Advancers had a slight edge over decliners on volume of 687 million shares. Among the most active stocks: America On Line off 3 3-8...Cabletron Systems up 1 13-16...AT&T up 1-8...Wal-Mart off 1 1-4...Compaq Computer off 7-16. The Nasdaq market was sharply lower, but the American Exchange was higher. The 30-year Treasury bond was up almost a point at 92 27/32. The issue's yield fell to 5.75 percent. -- The dollar traded at 1.0578 against the Euro...and 123.82 against the Yen. -- On the New York Comex, June gold was down $1.40 at $273.30. -- The Comex closed May silver down a dime at $5.18. -- Will people stockpile money just before the millennium in case of major Y2K problems? A new Gallup poll says it appears not. Fully 40 percent of ATM and debit card holders say they'll do nothing special. Most say they'll take out as much money as they would for a long weekend. -- Steve Case of America Online was grilled by Microsoft lawyers in a deposition related to the government's big antitrust case against Microsoft. Case said it's ridiculous to claim that AOL conspired with the government to say when it first heard of AOL's deal to buy Netscape. -- Merck and Company will soon start marketing its new painkiller to compete with Monsanto's Celebrex. Merck's new prescription drug is called Vioxx. It's the second in a new class of painkillers known as Cox-2 inhibitors. -- Market statistics at 4:25 p.m. Eastern time: DJIA 10829.2 off 37.4 NYSE Composite Index 636.87 off 2.55 S&P 500 Index 1330.21 off 8.62 AMEX Composite Index 795.37 up 3.34 NMS Composite Index 1144.22 off 9.88 NASDAQ Composite Index 2520.79 off 21.44 --  