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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly?
MSFT 483.03+0.5%Dec 5 9:30 AM EST

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To: johnd who wrote (51878)10/20/2000 11:54:29 PM
From: Dan Spillane  Read Replies (1) of 74651
 
Microsoft employees getting sucked into major margin calls!

msnbc.com

"Dorothy, the wife of a Microsoft programmer, said every time Microsoft shares drop by $5 and stay at the lower price for more than three days, the phone rings.
It’s the couple’s broker, Salomon Smith Barney, making yet another margin call. Such calls warn shareholders that the broker is about to sell some of their stock to maintain its collateral in loans to the shareholders."
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