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To: johnd who wrote (41243)	4/5/2000 1:25:00 PM
From: Brian Sullivan	Respond to of 74651

Everyone always sites the AT&T breakup as being a good deal for the investors, but given the bull market of the last two decades, I am not convinced that the pieces of AT&T actually performed any better than the overall market. I can't find any 20 year historical returns for the S&P 500, so I'll quote the 10 historical returns. AT&T components 19-year annual average return 17.7% 1981- S&P 500 10-year annual average return 18.8% 1990- Microsoft 10-year annual average return 49.5% 1990- As you can see Microsoft stock is currently doing much better than either the S&P 500 or the broken up AT&T.