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To: William H Huebl who wrote (45735)	1/28/2000 10:31:00 AM
From: Bill Ounce	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 94695

margin (ab?)use increasing Message 12705754 [...] Americans had borrowed $228.5 billion to buy stock as of Dec. 31, 1999, up from $141 billion a year earlier - a 62 percent jump, according to Ned Davis Research, a Venice, Fla., market data firm. In 1990, the figure stood at around $35 billion. Borrowing accelerated rapidly in the last months of 1999, when the technology-heavy Nasdaq Stock Market was surging upward at an unprecedented rate, said Sam Burns, a research analyst at Ned Davis. [...]