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To: Ram Seetharaman who wrote (6691)	12/22/1999 5:25:00 PM
From: Lutz Moeller	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9582

RAM, as you said "Micron Technology Inc. (MU) 82 +1: memory chip maker posts a fiscal Q1 net of $1.19 per share, well ahead of the First Call mean of $0.85, vs year-ago loss of $0.19; net sales rose 99.6% to $1.584 bln....." (briefing.com) The MU salesdouble is a hit! ASLC is speciality RAM producer in a smaller non commodity market at an even better prospects . . . Open the champaign bottle and splash! thirsty Lutz

To: Ram Seetharaman who wrote (6691)	12/28/1999 9:36:00 AM
From: DJBEINO	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9582

Microvision, Alliance, ForSoft chosen By Thom Calandra, CBS MarketWatch Last Update: 9:26 AM ET Dec 28, 1999 More StockWatch Commentary SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- It's people's choice time for January effect candidates. Every year, investors in tiny stocks look for the January effect. Some say it's a mythical notion -- the idea that small companies' shares will rise each and every January. I asked CBS MarketWatch viewers for their top choices: small companies that are growing rapidly but whose shares are in the dumps. (See Part I: Tegal Semiconductor and MTR Gaming.) Marc Robins at independent small-stock analyst www.redchip.com tells me the so-called January effect "has not been as pronounced in the last two years. The summer rally in 1998 flopped, giving rise to a fall frenzy, which moderated the January rally." Nasdaq 100 vs. S&P Small Cap This year, tax-loss selling "crept into November, resulting in a December buying eruption," says Robins. "That doesn't mean the bounce won't come, it just won't be as springy." Alliance has ties to Taiwan Jim Varney says Alliance Semiconductor (ALSC: news, msgs) owns about $1 billion worth of pre-tax shares of several related companies, including United Microelectronics Corporation, a Taiwan computer chip maker. "UMC is one of the top producers of chips in Taiwan," says Varney, who expects UMC's Taiwan-traded shares to be listed as American Depositary Receipts in the U.S. market. Alliance, at 15 a share on Nasdaq, has a market cap of $635 million. The shares, though, haven't exactly languished this year; in the past six months they have about doubled in value. (See chart.) The company is based in Silicon Valley, Calif. cbs.marketwatch.com