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To: Voltaire who wrote (11308)	4/6/2000 9:01:00 AM
From: lurqer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 35685

are the same bastards that save your ass. I just listened to Maria's "morning call. Man it's a full court press. Goldie (Abby), Niles, etc say you gotta own tech. Total switch for last week's vibs. Same ole, same ole. just porchin' lurqer

To: Voltaire who wrote (11308)	4/6/2000 9:27:00 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 35685

Compliments of your friends at Goldman <G>.... <<Thursday April 6, 9:15 am Eastern Time (Note: this article is ``in progress'; there will likely be an update soon.) RESEARCH ALERT - Goldman names 'super seven' tech cos NEW YORK, April 6 (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs said on Thursday it had named ``super seven' high-technology companies it preferred in a volatile market. --The seven include electronic commerce and payment services company First Data Corp. (NYSE:FDC - news); software company Oracle Corp. (NasdaqNM:ORCL - news); and electronic systems maker Teradyne Inc. (NYSE:TER - news). --Others are Canadian communications chip maker PMC-Sierra Inc. (NasdaqNM:PMCS - news); data storage systems maker EMC Corp. (NYSE:EMC - news); Internet gear maker Cisco Systems Inc. (NasdaqNM:CSCO - news); and No. 2 personal computer maker Dell Computer Corp. (NasdaqNM:DELL - news). --``During this period of extreme volatility we recommend technology names (in whose fundamentals) we continue to have high conviction,' the firm said in a report. --``Our 'super seven' list represents stocks we view as core holdings.'>>

To: Voltaire who wrote (11308)	4/6/2000 9:59:00 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 35685

V: Here are some friendly comments on 'The Houses' and their regular activities... Message 13361148 <<Not when the short side of their firm is cleaning up. Why would they remember those recommendations now? Same game every year, buy-side guys talk up the retail trade for a few months while each firm establishes huge short positions. Then they tell the buy-side guys to take a long summer vacation. Works every time. All that beginning-of-the-year IRA/401K money is now held by Goldman sucks, Merrill lynchem, and the gang.>>

To: Voltaire who wrote (11308)	4/6/2000 12:20:00 PM
From: Boplicity	Read Replies (6) \| Respond to of 35685

I have Changed my name to Prince Alwagregor Bin Bottom Fisher. I will no longer be called Greg. I have fashioned a turban out some old T shirts, (looks pretty cool too, when I looked at in the mirror). I will not do a Donavan though. <<Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, April 6 (Bloomberg) -- Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, the billionaire Saudi investor, went on a $1 billion buying spree as Internet and computer company shares slumped, snapping up shares of America Online Inc. Compaq Computer Corp., Eastman Kodak Co. and Xerox Corp. ``The correction was one of those historic moments to seize,' Alwaleed said in a statement. ``We have been closely tracking the performance of some of these stocks for about two years awaiting the right target price.' Through a family trust, Alwaleed, 43, bought $400 million of AOL, the world's largest Internet service, bringing his stake to $1.05 billion. AOL is down 17 percent this year. He also added $400 million of shares in Compaq, the biggest maker of personal computers, down 15 percent since Jan. 24. He bought $100 million of stock each in Kodak, the world's biggest photography company, and Xerox, the world's No. 1 copier maker. Alwaleed said he made the purchases starting six months ago. ``When the stocks hit our target entry price, I would swiftly authorize buy orders,' he said. The Nasdaq Composite Index, seen as a benchmark for computer- related shares, is down 17 percent from its high reached last month. On Tuesday it fell as much as 13.6 percent before rebounding to be down just 1.8 percent for the day. Alwaleed's purchases are consistent with his investment strategy of buying beaten down shares of companies that have strong brand names and lead their industries. Kodak shares are down 10 percent this year and Xerox shares are down 53 percent in the past 12 months. Value Investor He said in an interview last August that U.S. stocks were too expensive and he would wait for a slump until he jumped in again. At the time, he valued his fortune at about $15 billion. That sum has grown, especially as shares of Citigroup Inc., his biggest holding, are up about 30 percent since then, adding more than $2 billion to his holdings. Alwaleed made the bulk of his fortune through Citi shares. In 1991 he invested $590 million in Citicorp, which needed cash after being battered by bad loans. Now the stake is worth $8.9 billion. Today, though, his main focus is on technology, and the latest purchases bring his portfolio of computer, media and telecommunications stocks to more than $7.3 billion, he said. The biggest individual shareholder of Citigroup also owns about $800 million of Apple Computer Inc., 1.7 billion of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. and $700 million of Motorola Inc., the No. 2 maker of cellular phones, he said in today's statement. The nephew of Saudi Arabia's King Fahd, Alwaleed ranked No. 8 in a Forbes magazine list of the world's wealthiest people that was published in June. >> Alwagregor