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Strategies & Market Trends : Anthony @ Equity Investigations, Dear Anthony, -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Anthony@Pacific who wrote (50483)	1/22/2000 6:45:00 PM
From: Lazarus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 122087

of course, IF you shorted you covered.... nobody here is dumb. Furthermore, I have no problems with anybody shorting ANY stock. I merely took issue with posts like this: Message 12552089 and others in which you referred to the stock as a "pig" and compared it with IDID. Let's face it - we both know how the game is played..and we both know when the darkness on the darkside it truly dark. Lazarus

To: Anthony@Pacific who wrote (50483)	1/22/2000 7:44:00 PM
From: johnsto1	Respond to of 122087

Anthony.Obviously there are questions but these are 2 examples of a strong push that seems to be on to have open,liquid international markets.If IAAC has been trading Internationally for a long time will that put them in a position of strength ? I'm not pumping IAAC here;it's been a nice run;I'd like it to continue but that remains to be seen!!If the Forbes Senior editor stays with IAAC like he was last weekend on CNN that certainly wouldn't hurt. ***** traders.com January 20, 2000 Internet-Related Stock Fever Has Spread to Latin America By JONATHAN FRIEDLAND and PAMELA DRUCKERMAN Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL MEXICO CITY -- The frenzy over Internet-related stocks has gone south of the border. Mexican media bellwether Grupo Televisa SA, which two weeks ago outlined plans for an Internet push, expanded a secondary offering of its Big Board-listed American depositary receipts yesterday as global telecommunications and media funds clamored to get a piece of the action. Holding company Grupo Televicentro SA raised a higher-than-expected $1.13 billion in selling off a 9.1% stake in Televisa in an offer that was 2 1/2 times oversubscribed. Across town here, the country's largest financial services group, Grupo Financiero Banamex-Accival SA, savored an upgrade to "strong buy" by Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co. as it unveiled a long-awaited service for securities trading via the Internet. Meanwhile, a third listed company, live-entertainment concern Cia. Interamericana de Entretenimiento SA, or CIE, said it planned to swap content for a majority stake in local portal Latin Entertainment Inc. Both Banacci, as the financial-services group is known, and CIE indicated they might eventually spin off their Internet assets into separate companies and seek a listing for them. The activity in Mexico follows a week of sharp gains in telecommunications and media stocks across Latin America. The rises were prompted in large part by last week's deal between America Online Inc. and media giant Time Warner Inc., and a decision by Spain's Telefonica SA to purchase the rest of the shares it doesn't own in phone companies it controls in Argentina, Brazil and Peru. The enthusiasm is also being fueled by Wall Street investment banks, which believe they have found a way to lure fund managers who typically shy away from emerging markets. "It's the only Latin story where we can really cross over to a U.S. investor base," says John Boord, head of Latin American equity capital markets at Salomon Smith Barney Inc. Salomon, which co-managed the Televisa offering, now has three bankers working full-time to win underwriting and advisory mandates from Latin American companies eager to jump on the Internet bandwagon. They are helped by a team of analysts who have just published lengthy research reports on electronic retailing, online media and broadband in Latin America. In fact, the job of Latin American Internet analyst, which didn't exist at most firms a year ago, has become de rigueur for top Wall Street banks. In the next week, Merrill Lynch & Co., Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Credit Suisse First Boston Corp. are all hosting conferences for U.S. investors on the Internet in Latin America, in the hope of staking their claim to the market.

To: Anthony@Pacific who wrote (50483)	1/23/2000 9:14:00 PM
From: Lazarus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 122087

Reasons not to believe everything you hear.... EVEN IF THEY ARE "EXPERTS" -- another's opinion just might be the right. "Computers in the future may weigh no more than 15 tons." * "Popular Mechanics," forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949. ----------------------------------------------------------- "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." * Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943. ----------------------------------------------------------- "I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year." * The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957. ----------------------------------------------------------- "But what...is it good for?" * Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM commenting on the microchip, 1968. ----------------------------------------------------------- "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." * Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 ----------------------------------------------------------- "This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us." * Western Union internal memo, 1876. ----------------------------------------------------------- "The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?" * David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s. ----------------------------------------------------------- "The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible." * A Yale University management professor in response to Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service. (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.) ----------------------------------------------------------- Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" * Harry M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927. ----------------------------------------------------------- "I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper." * Gary Cooper on his decision not to take the leading role in "Gone with the Wind." ----------------------------------------------------------- "A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make." * Response to Debbi Fields' idea of starting her company, Mrs. Fields' Cookies. -----------------------------------------------------------> "We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." * Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962. ----------------------------------------------------------- "Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." * Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895. ---------------------------------------------------------- "If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this." * Spencer Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives or 3-M "Post-It" Notepads. ----------------------------------------------------------- "So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you; you haven't got through college yet.'" * Apple Computer Inc. founder Steve Jobs on attempts to get Atari and H-P interested in his and Steve Wozniak's personal computer. ----------------------------------------------------------- "Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and reaction and the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react. He seems to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily in high schools." * New York Times editorial about Robert Goddard's revolutionary rocket work, 1921. ----------------------------------------------------------- "You want to have consistent and uniform muscle development across all of your muscles? It can't be done. It's just a fact of life. You just have to accept inconsistent muscle development as an unalterable condition of weight training." * Response to Arthur Jones, who solved the "unsolvable" problem by inventing Nautilus. ----------------------------------------------------------- "Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy." * Drillers who Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his project to drill for oil in 1859. ----------------------------------------------------------- "Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau." * Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929. ----------------------------------------------------------- "Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value." * Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre. ----------------------------------------------------------- "Everything that can be invented has been invented." * Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899. ----------------------------------------------------------- "Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction". * Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872. ----------------------------------------------------------- "The abdomen, the chest and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon." * Sir John Eric Ericksen, British surgeon, appointed Surgeon-Extraordinary to Queen Victoria, 1873. ----------------------------------------------------------- "640k ought to be enough for anybody." * Bill Gates, 1981