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To: Greater Fool who wrote (92239)	1/26/2000 1:46:00 PM
From: H James Morris	Respond to of 164684

>You see it more and more ... people talk about what companies' stocks are going to do, not what the companies will do. I was thinking more like what companies ARE doing, but that was before Forrester Research (forr).

To: Greater Fool who wrote (92239)	1/26/2000 2:09:00 PM
From: Greater Fool	Respond to of 164684

From wsj.com: For EOffering, Underwriting Proves Tough on the Internet ... To be sure, competing online banks such as Wit Capital Group Inc. and W.R. Hambrecht & Co have done little better leading deals. Wit co-managed 18 deals last year, compared with EOffering's 13, according to research firm CommScan LLC. Online broker DLJdirect Inc., majority-owned by investment bank Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Inc., co-managed 19. ... And three of E*Trade's biggest competitors -- Charles Schwab Corp., Ameritrade Holding Corp. and TD Waterhouse Group Inc. -- have teamed up to invest in a new, as-yet-unnamed investment bank --------------------- Makes me wonder how all this will shake out. Direct, Dutch auction offerings are so obvious I can't see it not taking over. But the investment bankers will fight it to the last man.