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To: Kanetsu who wrote (48311)	3/2/2001 7:51:02 AM
From: Dennis O'Bell	Read Replies (2) of 57584

I don't see how one can directly manipulate the price of a large cap stock, but do believe that there are some conflicts of interest that should be investigated with these analysts that are closely tied to brokerage firms and market makers, etc. When these guys issue an after hours up or downgrade that sends one of these stocks gapping bigtime, is it really credible that with the amounts of money involved someone isn't getting their share on inside information about these analyst reports? After all, the government has been going after Microsoft for practices that seem less overt than this Wall St stuff! The majority of the influence of these analysts comes from the media circus around Wall St, and at least this aspect works in favor of the Individual Investor who can see past the herd mentality. Of course if there were no media circus the market would be like watching paint dry. The good part of the situation as that it's not lack of information but sifting through misinformation. There is much less publicly available information available in Europe and not surprisingly the public's participation in the markets is incomparably less there.

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