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From: bobk@gibdo.engr.washington.edu (Bob)
Newsgroups: misc.invest
Subject: Re: FAST CASH!!!
Date: 28 Jan 1993 10:29:04 GMT
Organization: University of Washington
NNTP-Posting-Host: gibdo.engr.washington.edu

  1. It is illegal.  No matter how you try to disguise it, it will
     legally be viewed as a fraudulent pyramid/ponzi scheme.  If you
     think it is legal than why do you insist on cash and why are you
     posting anonymously?

  2. Even if it were legal, only morons would fall for that con job. 
     Only morons would send any money to anyone, when they could always
     start their own lists -- someone has to start them.  Just take the
     post and replace all the names on the list with the names of your
     friends and family and distribute it to as many places as you can
     and see if any suckers will fall for your scam.

  This is an outright con job.  It would be nice if people in the same
  states as the people (especially the first five people) on that list
  would fax a copy of that post to their states' attorneys general.
  ==

  Bob                                             Seattle, Washington
From: cl238240@ulkyvx.louisville.edu
Newsgroups: misc.invest
Subject: Akers removal from IBM
Date: 27 Jan 93 13:38:16 GMT
Organization: University of Louisville

What is the significance in the removal of Akers as IBM's CEO?

Is this just a symbolic action -- signifying to shareholders that IBM is really 
committed to change?

For just how much of IBM's reluctance to modify do _you_ believe Akers was
responsible?

What effect do _you_ forsee this having on investor confidence and share price?



I feel that in a way IBM is firing the coach after a really tough season.  It 
may not be entirely his fault, but someone has got to be blamed and "punished."
 
I don't know if I can accept that he was the principle element in IBM's
sluggish response to a rapidly changing market.  I will be very interested to
see just who they pick to head up the aging giant (any guesses?).  I hope to
see further commitment to real change (starting to sound like a Clinton speech,
huh?), instead of doing the same old thing with the same people and hoping for
different results.

Let's hear it. . .
From: ishay@53iss5.Waterloo.NCR.COM (Ishay Friedman)
Newsgroups: misc.invest
Subject: mutual funds
Date: 22 Jan 93 20:25:36 GMT
Organization: Imaging Systems Division, NCR Corp, Waterloo, Ont., CANADA

I am interested in opinions regarding the following mutual funds:
(1) Trimark
(2) Fidelity
(3) Bullock American

I have the numbers, I am just looking for preferences, opinions, etc..

P.S- For those in Canada, currently Algoma Steel and Stelco and very
     inexpensive. Do you think that they are bargain ( improve after
     the recession) or are they like the Titanic?
Newsgroups: misc.invest
From: bucknerb@bnr.ca (Brent Buckner)
Subject: Re: The End of the Bull Market
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ontario, Canada
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 21:10:38 GMT

In article <1993Jan22.153705.15925@Princeton.EDU> nfs@volkl (Norbert Schlenker) writes:
>For years, I've been warning readers of this newsgroup that the party
>just couldn't keep going much longer.  I believe that I must be one of
>the last bears here.  Chedley seems to have given up on short selling.
>Gordon Hamachi, having moved to another group, now posts a mix of
>articles not uniformly bearish.  Broward Horne doesn't post here any
>more.
>
>I give up.  All you bulls were right.  Bill and Hillary will save the
>country.  After pooh-poohing Chris Long last week regarding his IBM
>purchase, I have changed my mind.  I bought IBM yesterday, and am also
>looking for a bounce to 55.  After pointing out the ridiculous
>valuation levels on the Dow and S&P, I bought an index fund yesterday.
>After repeatedly decrying the frothy speculation on the Nasdaq, only
>to see it march up 30% in 3 months, I bought Ultra yesterday.
>
>Hear ye, hear ye.  All the bears are in.
>
>I stand ready to be crucified.  (By Good Friday would be appropriate.)
>
>Norbert
>nfs@cs.princeton.edu

Fortunately, I deciphered this with my Secret Contrarian Decoder Ring.

-- 
at Bell-Northern Research
voice:        (613) 765-2739
Canada Post:  P.O. Box 3511, Station C, Ottawa, Canada, K1Y 4H7
I do not claim that BNR holds these views.  
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From: LOGIN@cbnewsh.cb.att.com
Subject: Re: YOUR stock picks
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 23:44:47 GMT

In article <C1DJDp.I0B@cs.uiuc.edu>, watanabe@cs.uiuc.edu (Larry Watanabe) writes:
> I agree that there are some good picks there [in Barrons] -- but
> there are a lot of mixed signals coming out.
> [some examples]
> A lot of their recommendations seem so ambiguous.

This is a fine art... like when politicians dance around an issue. :-)
-- 
George P. Cotsonas
AT&T BL/CPL
att!hocpa!geopi
From: fajack@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: misc.invest
Subject: Re: IBM Dividend -- Speculation, please!
Date: 22 Jan 93 14:08:32 MDT
Distribution: na
Organization: Utah State University

In article <1993Jan22.162634.20563@ann-arbor.applicon.slb.com>, jackson@mailhost.aa.cad.slb.com (Jeff Jackson) writes:
> 
>     Well, IBM is scheduled to announce what it will do with its dividend
>     next week (Jan. 26 is the actual date, I think).
> 
>     The stock price has been hovering around 46 1/2 for the last few
>     days, but IBM option prices and open volume are way up.  Looks like
>     a lot of people are "placing their bets."
> 
>     I'm going to stay away from the action myself but I'm interested to
>     know what y'all think is going to happen.
> 
>         1) Will IBM cut its dividend?  If so, by how much?
>         2) What effect will this action have on IBM share price?
> 
> 
>     My own guesses:
>         * IBM will cut its dividend by at least 50%.  I would not be
>           surprised to see a 2/3 cut.
>         * This cut will spur the institutions into selling blocks of
>           IBM, which will temporarily drive down the share price to near 40,
>           followed by a rebound as other investors snap up the cheap
>           stock.
> 
>     Speculation, please!
> 

	My guess is that the share price of IBM now is already taken the
divident cut into consideration.  I will be surprise to see it drops below 45.


Jack Teh

> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>   - JWJ    "Ann Arbor people have money, but they don't like to spend it."
>              - A Comfort Inn manager, on why the Berkshire Hilton failed 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>
From: root@vinevalley.mc.xerox.com (John Burkard)
Newsgroups: misc.invest
Subject: Pick - Northern Telecom
Date: 27 Jan 93 20:11:17 GMT
Reply-To: root@vinevalley.mc.xerox.com
Organization: Xerox


I see a pick by Benjamin Yu for Northern Telecom ... tell me a little about the 
company ... I may get a job here in Rochester with them.

	John Burkard
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From: edwardz@ecs.comm.mot.com (Edward Zhong)
Subject: write the PUT and buy the stock
Organization: trunking_fixed
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 16:53:13 GMT

for example, i have made my mind to buy 300 sh MRK at $40/sh, 
and the current price is $42. 

i can have a open order to buy MRK at $40 and wait. 

or 

i can write a naked put for $2/sh with strike price at $40 
and expiration day in march, i can pocket $600 today.

before the expiration day, 

if MRK never reach $40. i have made $600.

even MRK becomes < 40, there is chance the option holder will not exersise it.
if i am lucky, MRK will close above $40 on the option expiration day. i still
made $600 dollars.

if MRK close at < 40, i will just buy them at $40 which is my plan anyway.

is it a good way to buy?

-- 
=================================================================================
Ed Zhong, Motorola Inc. (LMPS)      |  my money works for me;
edwardz@ecs.comm.mot.com            |  i work to make my money work for me.
From: scc26mf@phobos.unm.edu (Mark Fleharty)
Newsgroups: misc.invest
Subject: Predictions
Date: 26 Jan 1993 02:51:53 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: phobos.unm.edu
Keywords: Predictions

Hello again.  I am here to give some more predictions.

I still belive that MSFT (microsoft) is going to go up.  I do believe that
it will possibly turn down 2-3 days but no more than that.  But I do also
realize that there is a good chance of me being wrong.

I think that the best investment is AKLM (akklaim)  This is an entertainment
software company.  I think that they will continue to go up like they have 
for several weeks.  From the time I have been watching it to now it has gone
up from $16 / share - 22 5/8 / share.


For those of you who want to know how my program works I will explain it in 
moderate detail now.

My program works by example.  It compares todays data with data from the past.
If it finds data in the past that matches well based on volitility.  It then
matches todays data with the data that preceedes the example data.  Thus it 
comes up with a signal.

I cann't show this very well with text and it would be much better if I could
show you graphs but unfortuantely I have no way of doing that.  I hope that
that is a good enough explanation.

Mark,
scc26mf@carina.unm.edu
From: ask@cbnews.cb.att.com (Arthur S. Kamlet)
Newsgroups: misc.invest
Subject: Re: rollover into 2 funds, ok?
Date: 21 Jan 93 18:56:22 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories,  Columbus, Ohio

In article <1jmqgcINNml5@CASPER.NA.CS.YALE.EDU> chang-mark-yan-ming@cs.yale.edu (Mark Yan-Ming Chang) writes:
>
>My IRA CD matured, so I put the money into my checking account, 
>and rolled over some into a Vanguard fund.
>I want to rollover the rest into a Fidelity fund. I think this 
>is allowd by IRS. But any other problems, like reporting, etc?

Sure, you can put the proceeds of one IRA from your bank into two
smaller IRA accounts with mutual fund managers.  Those must be
opened as IRA accounts and you have 60 days to complete the
rollovers.  You can make this rollover once per year.

Each Fund may charge you a custodian fee; Vanguard charges $10 per
year per fund.  You should make this fee a separate payment, written
with a separate check.  Otherwise you will have withdrawn (perhaps a
Not Permitted withdrawal) the fee from your account; the Fund
Custodian will take the fee from your account and you will be stuck
with a withdrawal.

The bank will send you a Form 1099-R which lists the amount you
withdrew from your IRA CD.  If you roll over the full amount within
60 days you report the amount of your 1099-R on Form 1040 line 17a
and you report 0 as taxable income on line 17b. Line 17b is the one
that counts.
-- 
Art Kamlet  a_s_kamlet@att.com  AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus
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From: mohammed@altrax.ils.nwu.edu (Blimpy Boy)
Subject: Re: Mutual Funds
Organization: ShoeGazers Inc
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 18:19:52 GMT


I'm pretty sure that Fidelity Advisor EqPG I has a 3% load. In fact all
Advisor fund have a load. 

CGM cap. dev is closed to new accounts and has been that way for a while.
The number for CGM is 1-800-345-4048.

The Financial Invesco funds have a $1000 minimum as of Feb 1.

The Kaufman fund has a high expense ratio and a redemption fee.


Riad
From: ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu (Ajay Shah)
Newsgroups: misc.invest
Subject: Another index fund question
Date: 26 Jan 93 15:37:41 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: almaak.usc.edu

I just spoke with Vanguard and they say 

        taxes on short-term capital gains and dividends are witheld
        at source, regardless of the nationality of the investor

This means that it's quite painful for someone abroad to get into
NYSE index funds using Vanguard, because he'll have to go through
a great deal of trouble to deal with the tax irritations.

Does a solution come to mind?

Thanks,

        -ans.
-- 
Ajay Shah, (213)749-8133, ajayshah@rcf.usc.edu
Newsgroups: misc.invest
From: idfriedm@marconi.uwaterloo.ca (id friedman)
Subject: cae, alcan
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 00:38:31 GMT

It seems like a lot of people are currently recommending CAE and Alcan in
the Canadian markets! Opinions will be appreciated.

Ishay
From: leeb@ruhets.rutgers.edu (Lee Bernstein)
Newsgroups: misc.invest
Subject: Invesot needed
Summary: investor needed to fund an existing bookstore
Date: 28 Jan 93 18:54:41 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


	Philanthropist needed to funs an existing bookstore with a
proven profit-making record.  Call Rick at 908-745-2093 & leave a 
message if necessary.  Please do not send responses to this email 
address.  Thanks.
Newsgroups: misc.invest
From: meyers@lorenz.ocean.fsu.edu (Steve Meyers)
Subject: Jack in the Box
Organization: Florida State University
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 14:24:38 GMT


Does anyone know who owns Jack in the Box and if JiBox is a 
large part of the parent company's revenues? It seems 
they're in a no-win situation now and the stock can only go 
down, so I was thinking of getting some puts. Does this seem 
reasonable? 
  Thanks.

Steve
Newsgroups: misc.invest
From: egl1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth G. Levy)
Subject: Exchange Rates
Reply-To: egl1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth G. Levy)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:45:27 GMT

Is there an on-line source where I can get the rates between lira and
US dollars, and Taiwan dollars and US$?  I need them from about a year
ago.

Please reply by email.

Thanks.



--
<Phone rings> "Hello?...  He did what?...  Bomb 'em....  I'm still
President."
			-- Dana Carvey's George Bush, 1/16 SNL
Newsgroups: misc.invest
From: cfwpm@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (Bill McGown)
Subject: Re: YOUR stock picks
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 04:58:16 GMT
Organization: Eastern Illinois University

In article <1993Jan26.215538.792@informix.com> robs@informix.com (Robert Schneider) writes:
>
>This brings to mind a question that I've been pondering:
>Namely, by the time you see these recommendations in Barrons, Wall
>Street Week, etc, isn't it too late?  Haven't the recommended
>stocks all had their upsurge (if any) by the time you can get in?
>The reason that I say this is that I've read a study by Norman Fosback
>regarding the performance of stocks recommended on Wall Street Week.

I did get the charts for these stocks and the answer is yes. They (for 
the most part) have been on an upswing. The question remains, however, 
were they on the upswing because of the recommendation or was the 
recommendation because of the upswing. I would guess a little of each.
Actually, I like to read these articles because they give me names 
that I can use to evaluate by my own criteria. For example Mario Gabelli's
mention of Trinity Indust. looks like it might meet most (some?) of the
things that I look for. 

I kinda go on the "first you find a stock to look at. Next you look for
the stock to go for" principle.  Nothing beats your own research!!!

Take care and good picks to you.

Bill.

>He showed that they performed best right *before* they were mentioned
>on the show; after the show, they tended to perform very poorly.
>Has anyone ever seen a similar study regarding Barrons picks?
>I'd be especially curious to see short term (30 days or less)
>versus longer term performance for recommended stocks.
>
>(I also wonder what kind of vested interest the "experts" have
>in touting a stock)
>
>Rob


-- 
**************************************************************
W. P. (Bill) McGown                     Eastern Ill. Univ
cfwpm@ux1.cts.eiu.edu                   Psychology Department
                                        Charleston, Il. 61920
Newsgroups: misc.invest
From: fqm6448                         
Subject: Micropolis (MILS)
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: University of Minnesota CIS
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:17:00 GMT

This stock seems to be trading at a low P/E Ratio. It has earnings
over a dollar a share and is expected to do so again next year.
It's only trading at 9$. Anyone know what up with Micropolis?
Looks like a buy so far...

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$ University of Minnesota      $                                               $
$ Carlson School of Management $   Know of any good stocks to buy or short?    $
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From: chenl@cbnewse.cb.att.com (julian.l.chen)
Subject: Re: Short volumes
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 21:10:58 GMT

>Is there any way to know what is the short outstanding on a particular stock? 
>Also is the short selling volumes included in the Wall Street Journal 
>volumes numbers?
>
>-- 
>Vicente Chung

Check either Wall Street Journal, Investor Daily or Barron's. They all
publish short interest around 22nd - 27th every month. The short selling
volume is included in the overall voulume displayed in the WSJ.

By the way, I am not a fan of short selling. But I alway check the short
interest of the stocks I owned or I plan to own. One of my rules is don't
buy any stock with short interest ratio > 10. Usually a large short interest
RATIO indicates trouble in the future.

On the other hand, a surge of stock price accompanied with high volume
and large short decrease confirms that the stock is very likely to go
even higher.

Julian
Newsgroups: misc.invest
From: cfwpm@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (Bill McGown)
Subject: Re: YOUR stock picks
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 04:36:51 GMT
Organization: Eastern Illinois University

For some excellent choices of stocks to consider look at Barron's
for this week, last week and next week! There were some very good
ideas expressed in both choice and reason for choice. Give it a
look.  (They must have named at least 60+ stocks that one could
consider.)

Bill

-- 
**************************************************************
W. P. (Bill) McGown                     Eastern Ill. Univ
cfwpm@ux1.cts.eiu.edu                   Psychology Department
                                        Charleston, Il. 61920
Newsgroups: misc.invest
From: jhsu@ih-nxt05.cso.uiuc.edu (Jason Hsu)
Subject: Re: Conservative investment
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 01:38:20 GMT

In article <1993Jan17.051314.18406@cc.gatech.edu> barrett@cc.gatech.edu  
(James Barrett) writes:
> I need to put aside some money for house down payment in 
> about 15 months.  With the possibility of higher interest|:f
> rates by then, what's my best choice for safety outside
> of cash equivalents?  
There aren't many good choices outside cash equivalents.  Stocks are at  
some of the highest price/book ratios ever, and the prospect of rising  
interest rates (which I consider certain) foretell a crash in stocks and  
bonds.  Your two best choices: cash equivalents and U.S. EE Savings Bonds  
(which pay higher interest than CD's and bonds of comparable maturity).   
If you want to invest some money for the longer term, put 10%-20% of your  
portfolio into the very few undervalued stocks remaining, like British  
Steel and Travelers. 
Newsgroups: misc.invest
From: Baxevanis@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov (Andy)
Subject: Re: Janus Phone number?
Followup-To: misc.invest
Organization: NIH
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 23:41:19 GMT

In article <nataraja.727722710@opal12>, nataraja@rtsg.mot.com (Kumaravel
Natarajan) wrote:
> 
> Could someone please mail me (or post) the phone
> number for Janus?  Thanks.
> 
> Vel

Here goes, right from the back of the statement:

General Inquiries and Account Services           800-525-3713
                                           TDD   800-525-0056
Prospectus & Literature Requests                 800-525-8983
Price & Yield Quotations                         800-525-0024

Hope that helps.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Andy Baxevanis
NCI/NIH, Bethesda, MD
Baxevanis@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
From: richt@meaddata.com (Rich Thompson)
Newsgroups: misc.invest
Subject: Re: Jack in the Box
Date: 28 Jan 1993 21:42:21 GMT
Organization: Mead Data Central, Dayton OH
Distribution: usa
Reply-To: richt@meaddata.com
NNTP-Posting-Host: bacon.meaddata.com

In article <1993Jan27.142438.22183@mailer.cc.fsu.edu>, meyers@lorenz.ocean.fsu.edu (Steve Meyers) writes:
|> 
|> Does anyone know who owns Jack in the Box and if JiBox is a 
|> large part of the parent company's revenues? It seems 
|> they're in a no-win situation now and the stock can only go 
|> down, so I was thinking of getting some puts. Does this seem 
|> reasonable? 
|>   Thanks.
|> 
|> Steve

   Jack in the Box is owned by FoodMaker (Symbol:  FM, NASDAQ?).  They
   have  been  jumping around losing quite a bit one day then  turning
   around and going up over a point the next day.

Rich
-- 
---
I bet you were expecting a disclaimer here, weren't you?

Richard L. Thompson                                Systems Development
Mead Data Central                                   richt@meaddata.com
9595 Springboro Pike                          ...!uunet!meaddata!richt
Dayton, Ohio  45342
From: lxfogel@srv.PacBell.COM (Lee Fogel)
Newsgroups: misc.invest
Subject: Re: YOUR stock picks
Date: 26 Jan 93 22:56:39 GMT
Article-I.D.: PacBell.1993Jan26.225639.27007
Organization: Pacific * Bell

I got Apertus Technologies (APTS, OTC) at 1 3/8 a few months ago.
It had undergone a major restructuring (was part of Lee Data).  They
recently showed a profit, and in the last few weeks has soared
to 5 3/8 and still seems to be going strong.

-- 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Lee Fogel/\/\/\/\/\eVerything/\Is/\possiBlE/\/\/\/\/\lxfogel@srv.pacbell.com
____________________________________________________________________________
From: clong@remus.rutgers.edu (Chris Long)
Newsgroups: misc.invest
Subject: American Superconductor Strangeness
Date: 23 Jan 93 01:06:09 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

Something strange happened with American Superconductor this week.
The typical volume for this stock is about 40,000.  A few days ago
it went up to 400,000 with a price jump (a little over 1).  It looks
to me like someone bought up a huge amount of the stock and is
trying to sell it at a premium, since the bid and offer have remained
steady at 20.25 and 21.75 with a big reduction in volume.
-- 
Chris Long, 265 Old York Rd., Bridgewater, NJ 08807-2618

Score: 0, Diff: 1, clong killed by a Harvard Math Team on  1
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From: mbk@netcom.com (Miles Kehoe)
Subject: Re: Recent runup in Frame Tech. stock?
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 22:01:25 GMT

cli@netcom.com (Concurrent Logic Inc) writes:

>I heard they announced a merger but I can't remember off-hand who it was
>with.  The report was rather positive though.

>Scott Evans
>scott@clogic.com

>In article <1993Jan19.235910.4259@cs.sfu.ca> mcdonald@cs.sfu.ca (Ken Mcdonald) writes:
>>
>>Does anyone know a reason for the recent (since Friday) runup in Frame
>>Technologies (makers of FrameMaker) stock, from about $14.50 to $17.50?
>>I wouldn't have expected any movement until their next quarterly report,
>>which I had thought was in February.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Ken McDonald
>>mcdonald@cs.sfu.ca

A week or so ago Frame announced a 'merger' with Verity, a text
retrieval software start-up. However, since Verity is going to cost
them a fair amount of money, I'm sort of surprised the stock went
up on that alone. The market in general (software makers especially)
did well that week and much of this. Consider Creative Labs which
jumped 10 points in the last two days, and 18 since going public 
5 months ago.

mbk

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