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Non-Tech : NetBank(NTBK)-formerly Atlanta Internet Bank

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To: Prof who wrote (1010)10/21/1998 5:23:00 AM
From: Elsewhere  Read Replies (1) of 2414
 
>Does anyone think this correction will bring the stock up Tuesday?

You mean Wednesday?

>Or should I continue to panic :{

No - if you have done your homework and are in for the long term.

Appended please find quotes from a Reuters report about the trading session. I guess it's the reflex well-known by now: another hedge fund is in trouble -> emergency sales looming -> trouble for the financial industry -> NTBK is a financial stock -> get rid of it. Well, this reasoning doesn't scare me any more.

Jochen

dailynews.yahoo.com

Wednesday October 21 12:43 AM EDT
Stocks End Mixed On Tech, Hedge Fund Worries
By Huw Jones

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks ended mixed Tuesday after a warning about technology spending sent a shiver through the markets and helped wipe away most of the day's gains.

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Talk that another hedge fund, this time Paloma Partners Management Co., had hit hard times also contributed to the late sell-off in stocks, traders said.

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The late-session pullback was partly attributed to a tumble in computer maker Dell Computer Corp. on talk of a broker downgrade and bearish comments about the company by Piper Jaffray.

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