<font color=red> SEPT. 20,2000 COMPLETE CNC REVIEW
    CNC NEWS, REVIEW, FUNDAMENTAL DATA  AND COOL LINKS 
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    CNC NEWS, REVIEW, FUNDAMENTAL DATA  AND COOL LINKS 
  This Piece was made possible by the TA CNC Shorts-Crushing Machine: The Bandwidth-Hogger, CNC Short Lumbar Spine Blower Lamborghini Diablo: post.messages.yahoo.com
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   CNC Balance Sheet 
  ----------------------------   conseco.com
  FUNDAMENTALS quotes.nasdaq.com
  9-2-00 Morningstar Quicktake® Report               Business Appraiser:
  quicktake.morningstar.com
  C H A R T S   ================
  Stockcharts: 
  stockcharts.com[M,A]DACLYYMY[PB10!B20!B30!B50!B200][VC60][IUB14!LA12,26,9!LC20!LF!LG!LI14,3!LH14,3!LL14!LM12]
  stockcharts.com
  . Interactive Point and Figure charting for CNC ( allow it to load and then play with right lower sidebar till you get green xxx’s pointing to $10 ). stockcharts.com
  . CNC Restructuring Program.com ========================= quicken.com
   Earnings Growth @ MSN MONEY CENTRAL ===================================== ragingbull.altavista.com
  .Earnings Estimates =================   Silicon Investor Message 14250661
  NASDAQ-Info-Quote earnings.nasdaq-amex.com
  BLOOMBERG Earnings Growth Estimates : quote.bloomberg.com
  PREFERRED STOCK & BONDS  ============================ finance.yahoo.com
  Money Flow Data   by Softechie
  siliconinvestor.com
  ..  *************************************************** VARIOUS CNC INVESTORS & BROKER RATINGS  
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  Sept. 8, 2000: NASDQAQ InfoQuote has 2 Buys, 2 Strong Buys and 9 holds. That’s up from prior 4 weeks  where they had  LEH & ING only , as Accumulate: earnings.nasdaq-amex.com
  8/10/2000Gary Smith from REALMONEY.COM  at The StreetCom     puts   a buy on CNC with a stop at 7. Anyway, here are a few charts to look at as you sip your morning Cafe Yukon:  thestreet.com
  ragingbull.altavista.com
   thestreet.com
  Sept 8, 2000:Flag Investors Value  Fund
  . flaginvestors.com
  messages.yahoo.com
  Aug. 29, 2000:DLJ has a big position in CNC as of 6-30-2000 and is UP 429% from previous Q. insidertrader.com
  GABELLI FUND UP 23% has 9% of position in CNC: messages.yahoo.com
  GABELLI FUND UP 23% has 9% of position in CNC: messages.yahoo.com
  Comments on Gabelli by YHOO poster tired_of_drivel messages.yahoo.com
  messages.yahoo.com
  messages.yahoo.com
  PROFIT VALUE FUND: 4 star Morningstar rating.
  In last 3 months has added new position in Conseco,  to make in 8th largest position;  position similar in size to its holding in Berkshire. messages.yahoo.com
  .
  9-2-00 Morningstar Quicktake® Report  
  quicktake.morningstar.com
  Major Fund Owners quicktake.morningstar.com
  . 8/15/00 Bloomberg: Novell, Conseco Are Among the True Stock Bargains: J. Dorfman cnetinvestor.com
  Message 14220318
  8/5/00  S & P raises Outlook to highest, 5 ( on scale 1 to 5 ) messages.yahoo.com
   7/30/00 STANDARD AND POOR UPGRADES CNC TO 4 STARS FROM 3 STARS Message 14133330
  Maintains: Accumulate: messages.yahoo.com
  7/31/00 Merrill Lynch messages.yahoo.com
  7/26/00 LEHMAN MAINTAINS OUTPERORM II ON CNC Message 14109720
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            MAJOR RECENT ARTICLES ON CNC 
  $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ Sept. 19, 2000  Dow Jones Newswires Conseco Expected To Offer $300 Mln Home Improvement Debt messages.yahoo.com
  . 9/14/00 :Conseco Reaches Agreement With Lehman Brothers on Finance Unit messages.yahoo.com
  9/14/00 -A. M. Best via COMTEX  Conseco Cleared to Use 'Upstream' Cash for Debt Repayment messages.yahoo.com
  08-31-00  (BUSINESS WIRE)--Conseco, Inc.  announced today an agreement with Chase Manhattan Bank and Bank of America to extend to Sept. 22, 2000, $155 million in loans to Conseco. news.morningstar.com
  Aug. 30 Bloomberg   Conseco Shares Gain as Bank Debt Rescheduling Pact Expected  By Dan Lonkevich
  ragingbull.altavista.com
  Aug.29,2000: The StreetCom Conseco Near a Deal to Extend Loans Message 14298004
   Aug. 17,2000: Business Wire: Wendt Battles Shorts Message 14227830
  .Aug.15,2000: 1) Lehman Is Latest Hurdle For Conseco's Recovery Message 14214595 
  Aug.15,2000: Conseco Still Negotiating Debt Maturity With Lenders  Message 14214598
  ..Aug. 14,2000: FITCH TO UPGRADE COMSECO?? Because it is over collateralized? Message 14212528
  . Aug 9 (Reuters) - Conseco Finance, fixed final terms for its 2000-4 series $1.2 billion  nine-tranche asset-backed bond launched on August 4.  Rating Aaa/AAA/AAA   ragingbull.altavista.com . Aug. 9,2000: A consortium of eight insurance companies has completed a $40.5 million investment in  affordable-housing projects across the state, the first test of an effort to get insurers  to voluntarily invest in community development. ragingbull.altavista.com
  .Aug. 4, 2000: Conseco prices senior classes of $1.2 bln ABS deal favorably  ragingbull.altavista.com
  .Aug. 4, 2000:Conseco Capital Management Names New Co-Portfolio Managers  for Conseco High Yield Fund Conseco Promotes From Within After High-Yield Exodus  ragingbull.altavista.com
  . .7/27/00 BUSINESS WIRE:  CONSECO Announces Restructuring  Program ,Parts I, II, III & IV , from RB ragingbull.altavista.com
  .http://www.quicken.com/investments/news/story/bw/?story=/news/stories/bw/20000727/a2620.htm&symbol=CNC
  . DOW JONES NEWSWIRE 7/27/00:COMPLETE  EPS REPORT 1: dowjones.work.com
  2: dowjones.work.com
   3: dowjones.work.com
   7/24/00 BLOOMBERG: WENDT GETS RID OF LEOPARD CHAIR AND .......PROTECTS SHAREHOLDER EQUITY: 
 
  quote.bloomberg.com .   7/19/2000 WENDT HIRES Ex-GE CRISIS TEAM   biz.yahoo.com
  . 7/12/2000 20 MILLION PAID TO HIRE WENDT  Wendt gets 45 mill less than if he had stayed at the Golf Course and got paid by GE to non - compete and do nothing. GE gets 10 mill CNC shares,  will make another killing.  . messages.yahoo.com
  . 8/21/00:CONSECO INVESTOR RELATIONS SAYS: Mr. Wendt paid the taxes on the bonus. His bonus was not grossed up. He received $45 million before taxes. messages.yahoo.com
   6/30/2000 WENDT BACK FROM HONEYMOON messages.yahoo.com
   ************************************************* .  OVERVIEW of CONSECO INSURANCE RATINGS   conseco.com
  . ***********************************************************   RATING AGENCIES , MOODY’S, S & P etc  ************************************************************ . .FITCH . Aug. 14,2000: FITCH TO UPGRADE COMSECO?? Because it is overcollateralized? Message 14212528
  Aug. 11. 2000:Conseco 2000-4 $1.2B Manufactured Hsg Contract P-T Rtd By Fitch Message 14200638
  . biz.yahoo.com
  . Aug. 11, 2000: Fitch Downgrades Conseco Rtgs biz.yahoo.com
  Message 14200576
  S & P  .=============== www2.marketwatch.com
  ragingbull.altavista.com
  S&P cuts Conseco Fin status Aug. 8, 2000--3:18 pm - By Chris Kraeuter Conseco Finance's credit rating status was revised to "negative" from "developing" by Standard & Poor's.   ragingbull.altavista.com
  Comment from RB poster on above  S & P reports: messages.yahoo.com
  8/9/00 1:58:00 PM : Business WireS&P Places Various Green Tree Cert Rtgs on Watch Neg The revision in the CreditWatch status reflects the increasing likelihood that  Conseco Finance will not be sold to a higher-rated entity in the foreseeable future.   ragingbull.altavista.com
  Comment from RB poster on above  S & P reports:   .MOODY'S ======================= quote.bloomberg.com . " While Moody's said it expects the company and its bank lenders to reach a satisfactory agreement,  it said the details of such an agreement and the effects on Conseco's operations remain uncertain. moodys.com
  New York, June 30, 2000 -- Moody's Investors Service has downgraded the credit ratings of  Conseco, Inc. and its affiliates (senior debt rating to Ba3 from Ba1).  moodys.com
  New York, April 20, 2000 -- Moody's Investors Service lowered the senior  unsecured debt ratings of Conseco, Inc. and Conseco Finance to Ba1 from Baa3.
  .  MORNINGSTAR/FINANCIAL    ============================   messages.yahoo.com
  Morningstar grades CNC a B-, for financial health, just slightly below average  for insurance industry and average for universe of stocks.  . . DALBAR Insurance Rating Web site ================================      Part 1          messages.yahoo.com Part 2 messages.yahoo.com
  ***************************************************    VARIOUS OTHER  ISSUES IN CNC: . .**********************************************
   ISSUE  OF  PRODUCING A  GIANT SHORT SQUEEZE: ================================================ MOST RECENT ================= 
  8-29-00The Original PAC-MAN Short_Squeeze Strategy remains intact and in force
  Silicon Investor version Message 14284021
  RB Version ragingbull.altavista.com
   First, to effect a short squeeze in CNC and see a giant squirt      of	cash upwards in your CNC stock: a)      ask your broker to put the stock certificate   out of  Street name, and in YOUR name  or b)  simply ask him to restrict it, ie you don't want to have it     loaned out for shorting.
  8-29: ANATOMY of A Short Squeeze          Message 14330070
  8-28 Cramer:The Street Com:          Buy-In Blues .      thestreet.com
  8-21-00: StreeetCom.com:
  What Happens When Short-Selling Goes Bad
  thestreet.com biz.yahoo.com
  Message 14247932
   Aug: 11, 2000:REUTERS:  "Liquidator" Jacobs bets on insurer's turnaround     biz.yahoo.com
   Message 14172703
  CNC in WORTH Magazine via Maverick Capital's Hedge Fund Manager - Lee Ainslie.  Ainslie is a noted short seller who has averaged 24.8% after fees with $5B under management.  He has covered  his CNC position:  I am not going to go Against somebody of Wendt’s reputation   . 8-1-00 Star Tribune: Neal St. Anthony/On Business:  Jacobs roars, short sellers yawn startribune.com
  . 7/31/00 J.J. CRAMER FROM TheStreetCom editorializes:  A great Idea !!! ragingbull.altavista.com
   7/27/00 IRWIN JACOBS WANTS TO PRODUCE A SHORT SQUEEZE. .  He puts this Ad in Wall StJ.  then other papers 
  messages.yahoo.com
   streetmonkey.com
  September 13, 2000 Dow Jones Newswires Irwin Jacobs Takes Crusade Vs Conseco Shorts Online interactive.wsj.com
  And puts his web site up irwinljacobs.com
   IRWIN JACOBS PICTURE : interactive.wsj.com
  Angling for Tie-Ins, Irwin Jacobs Took Up Big-Time Bass Fishing
  interactive.wsj.com
  Message 14204449
  ===============================    CURRENT SHORT INTEREST  ============================ 
  SHORT INTEREST 8-22-00 Wall Street Journal
  ragingbull.altavista.com
  Short Interest According to this web site: trading-ideas.com
  Shorting Rules  ragingbull.altavista.com
    BOOKS ON SHORTING ========================   (We encourage would be shorts to read these  and go  ahead  short some more and make  Mr.Wendt¡¦s Day when the big squeezarooo comes along). capatcolumbia.com
  . BAD SHORTING ADVICE .   Mr. Pink's Picks: selected event-driven value investments   in SI Thread, by Mr. P$nk Esq. Message 14187856
   . MISCELLANEOUS SHORTING 
  8-29-00Cramer The Street Com:  complains about negative web postings; they attacked his family::
  A Message for Message-Board Rumor Mongers: Clean Up Your Act thestreet.com
  messages.yahoo.com
  CNC  Stock Analysis of the day by paulthebigfinn at YAHOO board  messages.yahoo.com
  Post on stock Bashers:  Stock Bashing Business is Booming ragingbull.altavista.com
  ************************************************  7/22/2000   ISSUE OF CNC BANKRUPTCY     AND  of  DILUTION of SHAREHOLDER EQUITY ======================================   . . Part I messages.yahoo.com. 
   Part II messages.yahoo.com. 
  messages.yahoo.com.
  . 7/28/00 :ISSUE of FABER  CNBC REPORT & CONTROVERSY ====================================================   .( ie that Wendt is going to dilute shareholder equity ?).   ragingbull.altavista.com
  .7/29/00 reply by ta to FABER Report: CNBC FABER is either LYING or MISINFORMED
  messages.yahoo.com
  . 7/24/00 Cnet :  ''We're not going to be diluting shareholder value at ridiculously low prices,'' Wendt  said. cnetinvestor.com
  messages.yahoo.com
  7/31/00 FABER CORRECTS HIMSELF:   " CNC WILL  N O T  ISSUE ANY  N E W  EQUITY ". .http://boards.cnbc.com/jetson/message.asp?forumid=1695&messageid=459074&threadid=459074
  Thank you Mr. FABER. .  **********************************************  ISSUE OF MR.T.LEE'S PREFERRED STOCK  =========================================
   Aug.16:RBull: by  Normal_Deviate ragingbull.altavista.com
  Aug.16:RBull: by NJ-Gator: ragingbull.altavista.com
  messages.yahoo.com
  messages.yahoo.com
  ISSUE of VALUE of PREFERRED STOCK ====================================== messages.yahoo.com
  .  **********************************************  LAWSUITS, INTERNET AND CNC    . 8/14/00 CNC hires David Herzog as V.P. and General Counsel Message 14211926
  .From Law firm Baker and Daniels  a  very large Indianapolis firm: bakerdaniels.com
  REVIEW OF RECENT INTERNET LAWSUITS: ------------------------------------------------------------------ Message 14157877
  .8/30/00 Sample of Potential Lawsuit Material in CNC YHOO Message Board ( This are actionable because they have been mailed to CNC and are available in their hard Drive in HTML format and can no longer be erased )
  post.messages.yahoo.com
  Friday August 4, H-Quotient, Inc., Files Suit Against Alleged Stock Manipulators Message 14173025 
  The most recent Lawsuit won by Biometrix Message 14158321
  And just before that New subpoenas on the way biz.yahoo.com
   NEGATIVE ARTICLES ON CNC   **********************************************
  8/17/00  The  StreetCom: Good News with a  BAD Spin                         which StreetCom specializes in: Message 14230638
  .  7/27/00 TheStreetCom:  Herb's Hotline: Oversight by Conseco? thestreet.com
   7/10/00 TheStreetCom: Conseco Sets Rich Pay Package for New CEO, By Peter Eavis    Message 14023449
   7/11/00 Herb's Hotline: Will These Conseco Capers Never Cease?   By Herb Greenberg   thestreet.com
   &/14/00 Bloomberg :Conseco Outdoes Itself in Piling Gifts on Wendt: by  Graef Crystal  ragingbull.altavista.com
  7/31/00 Warburg initiates coverage with hold; messages.yahoo.com
   7/31/00WSJ Colin Devine from Smith Barney is worried about CNC messages.yahoo.com
  messages.yahoo.com
  BUT!!!September 1, 2000 smartmoney.com. Denounces Colin Devine as  being Wrong : Message 14322877
  *********************************************** .  <MISCELLANEOUS  .
  ********************************************************  MISCELLANEWS CNC NEWS    August 11, 2000: Dow Jones News: Conseco Preferred gains in NYSE  Message 14204249
  August 11, 2000: Dow Jones News:    CNC FLEXIBLE PORTFOLIO MUTUAL FUNDS TOP PERFORMANCE  Message 14204221
  Sept. 18,2000 Business week: Financial Stocks: Suddenly Sexy messages.yahoo.com 
  .=================================================   .******************************************** WHY I INVEST IN CONSECO   ragingbull.altavista.com
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    .WHAT IS CNC REALLY WORTH?
  View from a competitor Mr.Nauert, CEO of CERES: Message 14173062
  A CNC competitor!! ,Mr.Nauert, CEO of Ceres says that  starnews.com  If sold to the right buyers, Nauert said, Conseco's insurance operations could bring as much as $7 billion. That's the equivalent of $21 a share -- nearly three times Conseco's current stock price. 
  And this is from a competitor!!!! .  WHO IS GARY WENDT  **********************************************. .Why Wendt took job at CNC  ============================ Sept.5,2000: YHOO poster Corporate_Barbarian’s post is still a classic, on why Wendt took the job at CNC: He stands to make a GIANT amount of money  when he gets CNC up to $30. messages.yahoo.com
  Same by paulthebigfinn messages.yahoo.com
    Details of Pay package are in Form 8-K ( see Edgar ):
  messages.yahoo.com
   W E N D T the person  ======================== Aug. 7, 2000 :BUSINESS WEEK  ragingbull.altavista.com
   My comments on Business Week Article: Music Music  Music.. Message 14127197
   1997 FORBES/GECAPITAL: " BLOWING BUBBLES "  forbes.com
  July 5, 2000: REVIEW OF GARY WELCH LIFE AND ARTICLES  Message 13993832
   July 10, 2000: W S J : GE Capital’s Wendt: " A BRUTAL NEGOTIATOR "  Message 14023303
  FORBES: GE faces future without Welch: forbes.com
  They should have said Wendt since he was responsible for 36% of it’s income: ”After dominating the old economy, Welch embraced the new one, shifting GE away from its manufacturing roots and toward services like GE Capital, which now account for most of its business (GE had revenue of $110.8 billion and net income of $10.7 billion in 1999).  ”
   WENDT'S  BUSINESS CARD
  I run GECapital, GE’s most profitable part for 13 years
  forbes.com
    I am  responsible for 38% of GE's net income:  GE’s profit has come increasingly from Financial Services That’s GECapital, the company I run, at GE:
  businessweek.com
   And here how I compare with the giants:
  quicken.com
  ***************************************************************     APPENDIX DEDICATED TO MISCELLANEOUS IN SHORTING
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  RUMORS ============ 
  These are posted as an appendix because we cannot verify them: Rumor that AXA will buy CNC:
  ON The Move: Is Conseco a Takeover Target? biz.yahoo.com
  You need  REAL PLAYER for a broadcast of this.
  teknalysis in RB speculated that at a $20 buyout  Wendt gains tremendously on his  common stock deal ragingbull.altavista.com
  Furthermore at $20 all insider debts are gone!!
  ragingbull.altavista.com
  The rumor appeared in JAG notes messages.yahoo.com
  An introductory song about short covering:
  Come on baby, we got a lot of short-coverin' goin' on !!   By Jerry Lee Lewis  amazon.com
   It HURTS to be a SHORT  amazon.com
  ( aka #2 It Hurts to Be in Love By Gene Pitney ) amazon.com
  ============================================================  Shorts felt REALLY BAD  today. 
  How bad does it feel? Check this amazon.com
  #5: Like a Rolling Stone amazon.com
  ==========================================================</b Shorts thought of going the Hemlock way.We suggested they do it properly And go here:  Here's the proper way to use Hemlock:
  First become informed hemlock.org
  Then  "Think Happy Thoughts" as by Jack Handey...
  hemlock.org
  Then do it. COVER YOUR BUTT!!!COLD TURKEY is always best: hemlock.org
  ================================  SHORTS GONE SOUR.
  Example: Mr.P$nk 1st: BAD SHORTING ADVICE, in  . Mr. Pink's Picks: selected event-driven value investments   in SI Thread, by Mr. P$nk Esq. Message 14187856
  Dumb CNC shorts: messages.yahoo.com
  ========================================   Wendt  poses the historical   question  to all CNC Shorts and in particular to CNCShorts troop-leader Mr.P$nk, pink-punk-pantheon.de
  Did they feel Lucky?
  This was the exchange:
  Gary: you've got to ask yourself one question  shorty  :
  “ do i feel lucky?..........well do ya punk?" localsonly.wilmington.net
  localsonly.wilmington.net
  " I know what you're thinking.  Did he buy six shares or only five of CNC .  Well to tell you the truth, in all this excitement,  I kind have lost track myself. but bein' this is a 44 WENDT Magnum,  the most powerful BRAIN in the world, and would blow your financial head clean off, 
  you've got to ask yourself one question
  .......do i feel lucky?..........well do ya punk?" 
 
  GARY WENDT  aka  “ Dirty  HARRY  “
  Shorts: Requiescat in pace. May you rest in peace.
  ===========================   CNC Disclaimer for Dummies :   =========================
  " Be careful: Investing has been compared to gambling. Thus as in Las Vegas, investing in CONSECO  could cause you to loose your wallet,  your car and trailer, plane tickets, Bank Account, house, wife and job and you  can become crippled and die. ".  Let the buyer beware!!!!!!
  More Info From Uncle Sam, cradle to grave care and handholding here: sec.gov sec.gov    How Market makers Manipulate YOU otcnn.com
  And how to SPOT SHORTS and Similar STOCK-BASHERS: ragingbull.altavista.com
  Note: If you click on my last post it will take you to my  very first post  2 months ago. |