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To: Bill Harmond who wrote (78626)	9/25/1999 7:58:00 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 164684

Did you see there is a bunch of speculation on yahoo and Discover that AOL is set to buy excite?

To: Bill Harmond who wrote (78626)	9/26/1999 10:45:00 AM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Respond to of 164684

nytimes.com September 26, 1999 Japan Agrees to Rare Moves to Try to Halt Rise of Yen By DAVID E. SANGER ASHINGTON -- Japan Saturday yielded to international pressure and agreed to take some extraordinary steps to reverse the recent and surprising climb of the Japanese yen against the dollar, which has rattled Wall Street in recent days and threatened to choke off Japan's recovery. After an all-day meeting here Saturday, the finance ministers of the Group of Seven largest industrial countries issued a joint communiqu‚ saying the Japanese authorities had, in effect, agreed to even deeper deficit spending and to begin printing yen to spark inflation. Interest rates in Japan are already virtually zero, so the move represents a last-ditch effort to keep the yen's rise from making the country's exports more expensive, thus threatening their competitiveness around the world. In return the United States and other major nations issued a vague threat that they might jointly intervene in the markets to weaken the yen and strengthen the dollar, a warning sign to currency traders who have been dumping the dollar in recent months. There is more worth reading. Glenn