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From: paul@panix.com (Paul Gatker)
Newsgroups: misc.invest
Subject: Re: Condemned by Barron's--Is it signif
Date: 4 Jan 93 19:54:22 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC

In <1993Jan4.144055.13231@cbnews.cb.att.com> lib@cbnews.cb.att.com (Lib) writes:

>In article <1426500313@igc.apc.org> McAldon International Inc. <mcaldon@igc.apc.org> writes:
>>
>>I've read Barron's off and on for many years.  They definitely like to knock
>  
>More off than on I guess....
>  
>>editor, Alan Abelson, who writes their popular feature column "Heard on the
>>Street,"......

>Heard On The Street is in the Wall Street Journal not Barron's.


 Right. The Abelson column is called "Up and Down Wall Street".
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From: schindler@csa3.lbl.gov (AARON SCHINDLER)
Newsgroups: misc.invest
Subject: Re: Series E US Savings Bond
Date: 4 Jan 1993 13:34 PST
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory - Berkeley, CA, USA
Distribution: na
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>I have a Series E US Savings Bond ($1,000) issued Oct. 22, 1979.
> 
>How do I compute interest on this bond?
> 

The interest that US savings bonds held more than 5 years earn is either
85% of the average yield on 5 year treasuries or a minimum rate, whichever is
more.  You can call 1-800-US BONDS to find out the current rates.

Call you bank and ask them how much your bond is worth.  They have tables
listing the values.

Currently, the minimum interest rate for new bonds held for 5 years is 6%.
Making savings bonds an attractive alternative to 5 year CDs.  Interest on
savings bonds is tax deferred until you cash it in.

>And will interest continue to accrue? What rate?
> 

Again, call 1-800-US BONDS for the rate.  Series E bonds issued in 1966 and 
later stop paying interest 30 years later.

>Thanks in advance...

You are welcome.

>John

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From: kimd@gizmo.usc.edu (Kim Daugherty)
Newsgroups: misc.invest
Subject: mutual fund FAQ
Date: 5 Jan 1993 10:05:15 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Distribution: world
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Could somebody point me to the mutual fund FAQ?  It doesn't seem to have been
posted since Dec. 15, which is as far back as my news reader lets me go.  An
ftp site to access it would be great.  Thanks.

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From: meyers@lorenz.ocean.fsu.edu (Steve Meyers)
Newsgroups: misc.invest
Subject: SBP Chapter 11
Date: 4 Jan 93 17:19:25 GMT
Article-I.D.: mailer.1993Jan4.171925.8897
Organization: Florida State University

Standard Brand Paints is currently in Chapter 11. 
Does anyone know if they will be emerging soon or are they 
going to fold?

thanks

Steve
From: doug_d@sdd.hp.com (Doug DePrenger)
Newsgroups: misc.invest
Subject: Quick and Current Ratios
Date: 11 Jan 1993 17:40:16 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, San Diego Division
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: hpsdl126.sdd.hp.com

  I was perusing the fundamentals of a company when I came across two ratios
Quick ratio and Current ratio. Does anyone know what they measure? What are
the implications? Thanks.

doug
Newsgroups: misc.invest
From: guido@island.COM (Guido Marx)
Subject: Re: 401K--to rollover or not?
Organization: Island Graphics Corp.  San Rafael, Ca.
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 23:42:31 GMT

In article <1993Jan3.233919.840@ncsa.uiuc.edu> acheng@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Albert Cheng) writes:
>A digress--what are the benefits of rolling an old 401K to a new 401K
>when the money can be left in an IRA?  One has more investment options
>for IRA's and can withdraw the money with 10% penalty and income tax.
>401K won't allow distribution even if you are willing to pay penalty
>(right?) I doubt the new employer would match anything for the rollover
>amount.  So, why put the money into a more restrictive account?

Well, I can think of a few.  Most employers pay all the fees
on their 401K plans so you can save the annual fees that many
brokerages and banks charge for IRA's.  Also, some people might
find it simpler to just have the one account.  A third reason
might be that you can borrow against the 401K, but not the IRA.

Guido
From: sstasuke@ncrsoph.Sophia.NCR.COM (Steve Stasukewicz)
Newsgroups: misc.invest
Subject: $200/month for 18 years investment
Date: 8 Jan 93 14:19:36 GMT
Reply-To: sstasuke@ncrsoph.Sophia.NCR.COM (Steve Stasukewicz)
Distribution: world
Organization: NCR European Development Center (FRANCE)


I have a 3-month old son, and am starting to save now for his education.
I have budgeted $200 month to "put away" for him until he is 18 years old.
( Or whenever he graduates from college.  If he takes after his mother's
side, it may be later.  I hope she doesn't read this.  :)  Anyway, where
should I invest this $$$ to maximize my earnings?   

Any advice is appreciated.

Thanks 

Steve

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From: rcarvin@x102a.ess.harris.com (carvin robert 60184)
Subject: Closed End Bond Funds
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 14:36:35 GMT
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Organization: Harris ESS, Melbourne, Fla.


Can someone recommend a source of information for closed end bond funds
(government, muni, industrial, etc.).  Specifically a source that
summarizes objectives and multi-year performance.  Additionally,  if
anyone has studied this class of funds, I would appreciate their inputs.
Thanks in advance.
                    Bob

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From: barad@chartres.ee.tulane.edu (Herb Barad)
Subject: New IPO: WellPoint Health Networks
Nntp-Posting-Host-[nntpd-25478]: chartres.ee.tulane.edu
Organization: Department of Electrical Engineering, Tulane Univ.
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 16:53:02 GMT

My broker just told me about a new initial offering: WellPoint Health
Networks (I hope the spelling is ok).  It's an HMO out in California.
Does anyone have any comments about this?

Herb



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Newsgroups: misc.invest
From: zwka01@hou.amoco.com (Bill Aylor)
Subject: Miscellaneous digital historical data
Keywords: data historical
Reply-To: zwka01@hou.amoco.com
Organization: Amoco
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 18:18:02 GMT

Does anyone know of a repository within Internet where digital historical data can be found? I'm generally interested in any time series data available in database, flat file or spreadsheet format. Examples might be financial (e.g. interest rates, mortgage rates, reserve requirements, gnp, unemployment rates, stock market indices and data, etc), geographic (temperatures, major storms, major eqrthquakes by region or country), political (population by country or region,  mortality rates, defense spending rat








es, and general demographic data) and cultural (religuous affiliation, ethnic data by country or region, etc). I'm thinking of building some financial modelling software and was interested in the availability of such time series information.
From: mcaldon@igc.apc.org (McAldon International Inc.)
Newsgroups: misc.invest
Subject: Re: Any Information on I-STAT
Date: 9 Jan 93 21:37:00 GMT
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Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!mcaldon    Jan  9 13:37:00 1993


|The name of the company is I-STAT, and the stock trades on the Nasdaq
|National Market, currently around $15.  They are located in Princeton,
|NJ, and make a hand held machine that apparently almost instantly will
|give up to 6 blood readings.  The obvious advantage of this is to give
|blood analysis quickly, without sending blood work to a lab.  It could
|also be used in a patients home, as I understand the cost of this
|product is not expensive.
|If you know of this company and have any opinion as to the value of this
|'hot' tip (no flames, please) any information would be appreciated.  You
|can post to the group, email me or phone me.
|Rob

I notice from its listing in IBD that STAT has a fairly poor earnings
record.  If the above instrument is something new, it might give a big
lift to the stock.  You might ask your doc about this.  The instrument
sounds great, especially in today's climate of lowering medical costs.
BTW, I noticed an earlier response pontificating about "'hot tips'"
despite your clear disclaimers.  Please note that at least one other
reader appreciated your post.
        DMcKenzie
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From: al037@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Dave Polewka)
Newsgroups: misc.invest
Subject: Re: Sybase reverse split?
Date: 10 Jan 1993 07:38:27 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: al037@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Dave Polewka)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc4.ins.cwru.edu



  I wrote:
>
>My portfolio statement for Oct. lists Sybase with a note:
>
>  "All shares with an issue date prior to 7/1/91 are subject
>   to a 1/2 reverse split.  All other shares are designated
>   as "new"."
>
>How can some shares be split and not the others?
>What happens to the stock price?
>Has this split already taken place?

Someone replied by email:

# Sybase went public in Aug, '91.  All shares before that were reverse
# split, including stock options.  All shares issued after Sybase
# went public (but untradeable for a 3 month holding period)
# were not split.  Think of the split as occurring before any
# other shares were issued.
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From: fierro@uts.amdahl.com (Doug Fierro)
Newsgroups: misc.invest
Subject: Re: IBM vs DEC
Date: 12 Jan 93 02:09:39 GMT
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA

In article <1iqc3m$6br@agate.berkeley.edu> devine@olympus.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Bob Devine) writes:
>chedley@rigel.cs.pdx.edu (Chedley A. Aouriri) writes:
>: Actually IBM is probably oversold and may be due for a nice
>: short term bounce. And a few savvy investors think IBM is
>: a screaming buy at $52....
>
>Then again, it might be a screaming buy at $48....  :-)
>
>Bob Devine


  IBM is expected to have a big announcement concerning their dividend
payments on January 30th- a cautious investor might want to hold off
buying any IBM stock until then...

  Doug

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From: rdaniels@ieeefin.ieee.org (Robert Daniels)
Newsgroups: misc.invest
Subject: Any Information on I-STAT
Summary: Need information on I-STAT
Keywords: Information I-STAT
Date: 8 Jan 93 16:51:43 GMT
Expires: Wed, 15 Dec 1993 05:00:00 GMT
Organization: IEEE Service Center, Piscataway, NJ
Originator: rdaniels@ieeefin.ieee.org

I have a doctor friend who just called me with a 'hot' tip.  Since I
rarely pay any attention to hot tips, I didn't think much of it.  I did,
however, call a broker I know, and he seemed interested, and asked if I
could get more information.  The doctor I know is working on that, but I
thought maybe someone on the net might also have some information.

The name of the company is I-STAT, and the stock trades on the Nasdaq
National Market, currently around $15.  They are located in Princeton,
NJ, and make a hand held machine that apparently almost instantly will
give up to 6 blood readings.  The obvious advantage of this is to give
blood analysis quickly, without sending blood work to a lab.  It could
also be used in a patients home, as I understand the cost of this
product is not expensive.

If you know of this company and have any opinion as to the value of this
'hot' tip (no flames, please) any information would be appreciated.  You
can post to the group, email me or phone me.

Thanks, 
Rob

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From: watanabe@cs.uiuc.edu (Larry Watanabe)
Subject: Re: Contrarian trading in stocks priced under a dollar
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 17:39:49 GMT

ask@cbnews.cb.att.com (Arthur S. Kamlet) writes:

>   The idea of a conglomerate was to buy a whole bunch of unrelated
>   businesses, and operate them under the corporate name. It didn't
>   work for ITT  and it didn't work in spectacurlarly bad ways for LTV,
>   nee Ling Tempco Voit, who manufactured steel and basketballs and was
>   a major government contractor to boot.   They have sold off many
>   divisions to generate cash.

I think another idea behind the conglomerate strategy was
to generate the impression of being a "growth" stock.

By acquiring more and more companies, the conglomerate 
can demonstrate steadily increasing earnings, and
earn a premium for growth.

The problem is that the premium is not justified.
Furthermore, putting completely unrelated companies
together in a conglomerate just increases the 
management headaches.

-Larry Watanabe watanabe@cs.uiuc.edu

Newsgroups: misc.invest
From: temiraso@vela.acs.oakland.edu (thomas e mirasol)
Subject: Re: opinions on fidelity mutual funds
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI.
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 03:23:43 GMT

In article <perry-080193092625@bperry.gsfc.nasa.gov> perry@lheavx.gsfc.nasa.gov (Brendan Perry) writes:
>Greetings,
>
>I have been involved with my company 401(k) program for 2 years and have 
>half my monthly additions to it put into Fidelity Magellan and half into
>Fidelity Growth and Income. Magellan seem to constantly have a - sign in
>the value column the last several quarters. Now I'm getting literature
>from Fidelity to invest in several mutual funds apart from my 401(k). 
>I've had money accumulating in my savings account at 3.6% 8-( and am 
>looking to do better. So, my question is, how does the Fidelity Disciplined
>Equity Fund look? I'm young enough to take a few risks, and plan to
>reinvest
>my dividends for now, and keep some of my savings as a backup. Basically
>I have about $5000 to play with. Any advise would be most appreciated.
>
>
>Brendan

According to Morningstar and a recent article in WSJ, Fidelity's
Disciplined Equity Fund is a good buy.  Bradford Lewis, the fund
manager, uses a neural network to pick his stocks and has been
successful at it.  A neural network is a computer program that tries to
mimic the intricate structure of the human brain.  Very few funds
utilize neural networks, but many believe it holds great promise.  For
the last 3 years, FDEF has beaten the S&P 500 index by 2.3 to m5.6
points (%).  Morningstar gives this fund a 5-star rating.  It is
ranked  high on return, and below-average on the risk factor.  I was
impressed with this fund overall.

- Tom M.
From: davida@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (David A. Andersen)
Subject: Re: Redeeming Stock Certificate??
Newsgroups: misc.invest
Reply-To: davida@ics.uci.edu (David A. Andersen)
Organization: Univ. of Calif., Irvine, Info. & Computer Sci. Dept.
Date: 6 Jan 93 00:35:19 GMT

I have lost track of who made the original posting (and my reader won't
go back that far), but I will be willing to buy the 3 shares of Walmart
directly.  This will save the person the comission (about $50).
(If anyone else has small amounts of stock that they'd like to sell,
let me know I might be interested....)

Newsgroups: misc.invest
From: pvonk@scott.skidmore.edu (Pierre VonKaenel)
Subject: Re: what education is necessary for successful investment
Organization: Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY, 12866
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 20:01:36 GMT

In article <1993Jan9.170843.14211@news.columbia.edu> rs69@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Rong Shen) writes:
>Hello:
>
>	Currently I do not know anything about investment, but I plan
>to trade stocks in the future. How should I educate myself? What
>topics in the realm of finance should I read (competive analysis,
>technical analysis, psychology)? Which type of investment is most
>profitable, stocks, bonds, or (what are other types... scatching my
>head)?

You might start with "The Intelligent Investor" by Benjamin Graham.
Although it's about 20 years old, it's considered THE classic book on
stock/bond investing.

As for finding a "method".... gimmicks come and they go.  Some work
for a while, but eventually fail.  For example, TA (technical
analysis).  It works for some, but will it continue to work over the
long haul????  I suggest you read, read, read.  Read books on
investing, read investment magazines, Wall ST Journal, news groups,
etc.  In time, and with experience, you'll come to know reliable
methods for making investments, fly-by-night methods, stupid methods,
and non-methods.  You'll have a good feel for what's up, which stocks
and stock groups are doing well and which may do well.  

Be suspicious of any investment method that requires "only a little of
your time".  Lastly,.... whatever you do, whichever method you use (be
it charting, fundamental analysis, stock fund averaging), if it is no
longer fun and exciting, get out.  If it becomes a chore, a bore, let
someone else do it.

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From: fqm6448
Newsgroups: misc.invest
Subject: Discount Brokerages that can buy Foreign Stocks
Date: 12 Jan 93 15:52:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: vx.12JAN199310520687
Organization: University of Minnesota CIS
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41



Does anyone know if there are discount brokerages that can buy
stocks on foreign excahanges. I know all the full service one's
ussually have foreign branches but I want to pick the stock's
and be charged a commission far less than 5%.

(I know about ADR's, foreign stocks listed OTC, and mutual funds
of foreign stocks so PLEASE DON'T TELL ME ABOUT THESE).....I want
to buy/short stocks directly on the foreign exchange (Particularly
Japan, Europe, and Isreal.) Does Shwab do this?


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From: kevr@is.morgan.com (Kevin Reilly)
Subject: New Discount Brokerage
Organization: Morgan Stanley & Company
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 17:45:49 GMT


A new discount brokerage opened up in my part
of town recently and I thought it might be of some
interest to those investors who would like to do a
little comparison shopping.

The following info I am sure is helpful
Eagle Capital Holdings
300 Northern Blvd.
Great Neck, NY 11021
(516) 829 - 2823

I had them fax me a trading price chart. I was not sure if
it was proper to post it. As a matter of fact I do not
know if this whole post is proper.

Anyways for those interested I will summarize the
price list and e-mail it to you or I can post it to
misc.invest.

Kevin M. Reilly
From: jxs18@po.CWRU.Edu (Jerry Sy)
Newsgroups: misc.invest
Subject: Re: Managing Your Money (was Re: Quicken & Investments)
Date: 5 Jan 1993 03:04:44 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: jxs18@po.CWRU.Edu (Jerry Sy)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) says:

>In article <1993Jan4.181635.28025@rational.com> jdart@donner.Rational.COM (Jon Dart) writes:
>>   I'm still trying to use this program for investments, but it's not
>>going as smoothly as I hoped it would.
>
>When I was looking into a money management program (for the Mac), I was
>concerned about this, and asked around here.  Everyone told me that Quicken
>is great for household finances, but if you're also tracking investments
>then Managing Your Money is better.  I haven't actually tried Quicken, but
>judging from your comments I'd have to agree.
>
>
>On the whole, though, I've been very pleased with MYM.
>-- 
>
I recently tried MYM and I think its home finances section sucks!
everything is not intuitive (well almost).  Quicken is very intuitive
and do a good job.
From: hus@memstvx1.memst.edu
Newsgroups: misc.invest
Subject: <None>
Date: 11 Jan 93 15:22:56 -0600
Organization: Memphis State University

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