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To: Giordano Bruno who wrote (73501)	11/4/1999 9:13:00 AM
From: Defrocked	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 86076

Last night I added some forward performance numbers to the table implied by your link. The "Hence" numbers are approximations of the index performance for successive years forward. For Oct'99 it's the arithmetic average over the four "peaks". Do you like the odds???<g> Median 1929 1966 1973 1987 Oct-99 DJIA 381 995 1052 2722 10730 P/E 15 24 23 20 21 35 P/B 1.6 2.7 2.2 2.2 2.8 7.5 Divd% 4.1 3.1 3.0 2.8 2.8 1.2 P/S 0.9 NA 1.2 1.0 0.9 2.1 ???? 1 Yr. Hence -51.9% -13.0% -19.1% -21.1% -26.3% 2 Yr.Hence -72.3% -15.6% -41.4% -2.8% -33.0% 3 Yr.Hence -83.8% -6.0% -18.3% -10.3% -29.6% 4 Yr.Hence -76.9% -21.1% -4.6% 12.7% -22.4% 5 Yr.Hence -75.5% -9.1% -21.0% 18.5% -21.8%