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To: Jane4IceCream who wrote (46800)	11/24/1999 6:01:00 PM
From: Paul A	Respond to of 122087

This happens every year during the holidays.. This clip from a reuters article pretty much sums it up: ---Most trades in Ariel were small numbers of shares ranging from 100 to 1,000 shares. Trading in small chunks tends to indicate retail investor activity instead of institutional buying, which is characterized by the trading of big blocks. Institutional traders noted they were not surprised by the run-up on Ariel's stock price. ``You're going to see more and more this insane rush to buy these speculative stocks,' one trader said, noting his firm was not trading the stock