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To: brian h who wrote (5272)	1/16/2000 8:40:00 AM
From: William Hunt	Respond to of 13582

Thread ---January 14, 2000 The SmartMoney.com Balance Sheet Screen DO INTEREST RATES have you down? Do you find yourself lying awake at night worrying about bond yields and whether Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan woke up on the right side of the bed? If you do, this screen is for you. It's just about a done deal that the Fed will raise interest rates when it meets in February. Stock prices on Wall Street have been on a roller-coaster ride as Wall Street professionals try to determine just how high rates will go. After the Chairman's latest remarks, the Street seems to think the increase won't be too bad. Even the stocks in the highflying Internet sector, which have been down this year, seem to be stabilizing. But it's not a bad time to plan ahead, in case the Fed raises rates even more later this year. A second increase could send new shockwaves through the markets. One way to protect your portfolio is by considering the stocks of companies with strong balance sheets. In this screen, you'll find 23 companies that have relatively low debt levels and good liquidity ? meaning they won't take much of a hit from higher borrowing costs. Click here to see the recipe we used to find these companies. You can also download extensive information on each one of these companies to analyze on your computer. COMPANY CURRENT RATIO % CH PRICE 52 WKS REL TO S&P 500 LT DEBT ($mil) CASH & MARKT SECS QTR ($mil) DEBT/ TOT CAP Appld Matls Inc (AMAT) 3.03% 107.49% $584 $2760 11.88 Automatic Data ( AUD) 1.85 8.60 146 1373 3.33 Franklin Resour ( BEN) 3.26 -37.18 494 743 13.36 CBS Corp ( CBS) 1.67 51.57 2506 742 27.82 3com Corp ( COMS) 2.87 -10.40 30 1706 0.60 Cisco Systems ( CSCO) 1.62 96.08 0 1765 0.32 Dell Computer ( DELL) 1.82 13.26 512 5857 10.55 Emc Corp -Mass ( EMC) 3.92 102.70 539 1258 10.65 Hewlett Packard ( HWP) 1.68 29.08 2063 6106 8.76 Intel Corp ( INTC) 2.80 22.80 702 11544 2.94 Lilly Eli & Co ( LLY) 2.07 -32.91 2186 3358 36.66 Lucent Tech Inc ( LU) 1.74 47.51 2409 1495 23.03 Medtronic ( MDT) 2.44 -6.52 18 312 0.49 Microsoft Corp ( MSFT) 2.64 19.78 0 18902 0.00 Nortel Networks ( NT) 1.72 184.98 1648 927 12.28 Office Depot ( ODP) 1.58 -55.36 471 575 21.61 Oracle Corp ( ORCL) 1.90 159.09 304 2722 7.91 Qualcomm Inc ( QCOM) 3.40 1078.88 1 1614 19.87 Seagate Tech ( SEG) 1.94 1.80 703 1415 18.50 Schlumberger Lt ( SLB) 2.32 9.48 3285 4022 30.07 Sun Microsys ( SUNW) 2.45 184.96 382 4114 26.85 Texas Instrs ( TXN) 2.25 120.30 1027 2015 12.76 Warner Lambert ( WLA ) 1.54 -4.43 1260 1300 22.30 Source: Zacks Investment Research BEST WISHES BILL

To: brian h who wrote (5272)	1/16/2000 1:43:00 PM
From: JGoren	Respond to of 13582

As far as I am concerned, until MOT announces its phones have Qcom chips and the handsets have "Digital by Qualcomm" written on them, MOT does not use Qcom chips and I advise everyone I speak to NOT to buy any phone unless it has Qualcomm chips. I would say, at this point, MOT has already lost $5,000 in business just to my personal recommendations to individuals. Kayaker, no there has been no publicly released information on the substitute spectrum. Yes, if FCC is able to revoke NextWave licenses, then at least one of them should be suitable spectrum.