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To: Boplicity who wrote (10026)2/10/2001 10:47:12 PM
From: Sig  Read Replies (1) of 13572
 
Greg: You once asked " They can't go to zero, can they"
Looking at the holdings of insiders, proposed sales, funds that have been fried, toasted and barbequed on 4 letter investments. Includes colleges, states, retirement funds.
Options are now maturing, and must be sold so executives have to sell stock or lose all.
We may be lucky stocks don't have assessments as in silver mining days, where you have to pay more or lose the stock.
For stocks based on hot technical ideas which do not yet have earnings the failure rate could be 80%
Venture capital to keep them going is drying up.
So the bad news is the answer is "yes"
The good news is that some stocks won't-Msft, intc, dell,qcom,rmbs, and a couple more(G)
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