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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: rudedog who wrote (45501)	5/27/2000 1:58:00 PM
From: Gary Burton	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Thinking out loud re Canada idea----Naz techs down big time--needing catalyst to change psychology--MSFT down 50%, a textbook Wave 2 correction from the 1986-99 Wave 1---doom and gloom abound a la Cramer etc--many holding large cash reserves just itching for the signal that Tech Wreck is over---and along comes Gates after the close some day soon and Reuters news headlines--"Microsoft Moving Jurisdiction to Canada" and "Microsoft negotiates 5 year tax concession from Cdn Gov't"----IF (and I say IF) this happens, overnight then MSFT gaps up, eps estimates after tax are increased by analysts and all the other Big Cap Techs turn on a dime due to psychology change.---Within a few weeks, MSFT back near 100 etc etc etc--one gets the picture------so the question to be asked is "Is such an jurisdiction move feasible"--before people dismiss this out of hand, one must bear in mind that MSFT's tax and legal types may well have been researching this for weeks and for all anyone knows high level discussions with the Cdn Gov't have already been held and at a late stage-for all anyone knows----so ALL I am saying is that the stage is at least set for some kind of dramatic mood altering event to rear its head and shock the market and many will find that the train has suddenly left the station without them due to the gap up nature of the reaction--if it came to pass. Seattle is very close to Vancouver (ferry) and the business is not bricks and morter but an internet age 'no domiscile' type of thing....Frankly, I find the idea at least intriguing.