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To: Rande Is who wrote (9174)	7/7/1999 2:28:00 PM
From: Rande Is	Respond to of 57584

Liking the looks of WCOM under 85 today. . . for a position play to 95. . . if we get another big decline tomorrow [as tick reaches -500 and YHOO is a few hours from releasing earnings]. . .we could see lower 80's on WCOM. On the other hand. . . .if YHOO announces a 2 for 1 stock split. . .it will void out whatever mediocre earnings it might report. . . investors LOVE splits. . . I know I do. This could send Inets higher FAST, despite any bad numbers. Rande Is

To: Rande Is who wrote (9174)	7/7/1999 3:01:00 PM
From: Bucky Katt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 57584

I know more than I should about the metals. Anyway, platinum has always been popular to the Japanese for jewelry. Like copper, maybe the best play is futures? Or, a just downgraded stock, SWC, is the way to play. I would not abandon gold just yet, and the reason is simple. The recent Brit sales are nothing compared to what trades daily on the LME. And, the first round was over subscribed, by a factor of 5, so there is smart buying going on at these low prices. The Brits, and all the others say they will buy bonds to earn a return, what they fail to mention is that they made a much bigger annual return by leasing their gold out to traders. Don't ask, it is too complicated. So, my take is they are using it prop up paper, and that will end ugly, because the gold reserve has always been the final value. 2nd, and more important, the US ain't gonna sell. BTW, copper futures still trending up, and you know what that means, right? Regarding ATMS, think of being able to buy your concert tickets from an ATMS i-net machine, and being able to also bring up a seating/section map of the venue. That is from their annual report. Let's see, who owns ticketmaster. Would be a nice fit, yes?

To: Rande Is who wrote (9174)	7/7/1999 3:18:00 PM
From: Kevin Shea	Respond to of 57584

Rande; Although Platinum may become a jewelry standard (I concur with William regarding Japan), the demand is very small when compared to the industrial uses....gold tends to be more manipulated by politics and economic policies while plat, copper, palladium, aluminum, etc are driven by "true" supply and demand (IMO)... if you compare the charts for each of those you will see that most metals trend the same while gold trends lower than the others.... gold stocks trend higher than the price of gold....e.g. compare charts for N and PD (nickel and copper) don't they look a lot alike? same for most of the others as well.....for long term investors, metal and metal stocks should be very attractive... most have seen a first intermediate leg advance and the second is about to commence.... I'm definitely looking for a surge .... my guess is late August.. There are a number of sites for data collection (too many), after lots of reading, I decided to just watch the charts.