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To: carepedeum2000 who wrote (18829)	1/18/2000 2:19:00 AM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 57584

Almost no inflation. This bodes well. Especially when opil prices go back down, as they're reported to be doing now. WASHINGTON (Jan. 14) - U.S. consumer inflation ran at a relatively high 2.7 percent in 1999 but, when volatile food and energy prices were excluded, it was at its lowest level in a generation, the government said on Friday. The Labor Department said its consumer price index, the broadest gauge of inflation, rose by 2.7 percent last year, up from 1.6 percent in 1998 and the highest rate for a calendar year since 3.3 percent in 1996. But excluding food and energy, so-called 'core' inflation was just 1.9 percent -- the lowest since 1.5 percent in 1965." I am considering more aggressive moves into the still-cheap stocks I mentioned before. When the news comes out about less inflation than expected the Fed will be frozen from hiking and will have to capitulate to the new digital economic reality, and realize the fact that some sectors of the market haven't even begun to rally. I'm going for growth-value stocks which are sometimes hard to find but give your a pretty solid floor under your feet. I don't know about you guys but I don't like losing money. Buy before the institutions and momentum traders do. Just a few smart picks along with some clever diversification and it should mean solid gold this late winter/early spring. For the next two months at least I am in this market all the way.

To: carepedeum2000 who wrote (18829)	1/18/2000 7:30:00 AM
From: Rande Is	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 57584

Carpe, <what about my january calls?>. . . if you don't have a crystal clear picture of the direction a company is headed, your best option play is NOT to play. I am leaning toward JDSU NOT going much lower today. . . and any weakness at all will be a buying opportunity that everyone will recognize. This one is just too much a no brainer. It is perhaps the single most important stock in a port, IMO. I have been trading, based on those swings we discussed. . .but that will stop. . . Also, remember our "losers lists?" Remember how ETEK always escaped those terrible down days. . .and even gained when all others lost heavily? Well, now we know why. Word of this merger was most certainly leaked. Rande Is