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Strategies & Market Trends : Waiting for the big Kahuna

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To: William H Huebl who wrote (40026)5/16/1999 9:54:00 AM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu  Read Replies (1) of 94695
 
From my Chicken page - Day Traders - Market speculation -

Most recent example of irrational stock buying is IBM.

Louis Gerstner of IBM started touting his company as an Internet play - net result the stock went from $220 to $245 for no other reason than speculation. IBM's market capitalization grew by $25 billion just
for a nice story and prep talk ?? - there were no new financial facts or better earnings prediction JUST SPECULATION!! Those $25 billion in added valuation can account for several countries GDP or about 5 to 6 weeks of money flow into the US mutual funds.

To make some sense of the irrational market behavior - Poland with a population of 38 million has a yearly budget of $34 billion and
national debt of $43 billion. Austria with a $21,000 per capita GDP has a national debt of $30 billion similar to Belgium national debt of
$31 billion and Denmark's national debt of of $44 billion (sources the CIA World Fact Book). Does their government "prep talk" eliminate their outstanding debt in two days??? Well I do not think so.

BWDIK
Haim


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