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To: afrayem onigwecher who wrote (413)	6/2/2000 10:43:00 PM
From: StockDung	Respond to of 435

wow, off a 52 week low of 7/8. You must be rich

To: afrayem onigwecher who wrote (413)	6/4/2000 10:18:00 PM
From: StockDung	Respond to of 435

Only 70,000 shares Iaasic?->Wall and Broad Equities (8) 70,000 * 70,000 SHOPPING COM filed this S-1/A on 11/27/1998. (8) Includes 70,000 shares of Common Stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants issued to a designee of Trautman Kramer in connection with the Private Placement. The exercise price is $2.00, and the warrant is exercisable for five years from the date of issuance. tenkwizard.com

To: afrayem onigwecher who wrote (413)	6/5/2000 10:21:00 AM
From: StockDung	Respond to of 435

What is a MOEIBUS? Ask Steven Reid->Making New Friends at the Expense of the Old? 10/29/98 Kudos to Marty Whitman for stopping to pick up values even as other investors are racing for the doors. But does he really need to reopen to new investors? Same goes for Oakmark Small Cap's Steven Reid (who, incidentally, also owns Catellus), Heartland Value's Bill Nasgovitz, and the teams at Neuberger & Berman Genesis and Longleaf Partners (there must be a link between Catellus ownership and this spate of re-openings!). Oakmark Small Cap lost more than half of its asset base this year, so Reid has had significant outflows to contend with--but $600 million is also a much more reasonable size for a small-cap fund. Third Avenue Value, Heartland Value, and Neuberger & Berman Genesis all still weigh in at over $1 billion, plenty big for small-cap value strategies. And Longleaf's mid-cap focus doesn't give it much extra leeway, with an asset base of more than $3 billion. I just hope they are all as quick to close again, before the cash starts piling up. news.morningstar.com

To: afrayem onigwecher who wrote (413)	6/5/2000 10:23:00 AM
From: StockDung	Respond to of 435

independent analyst, Mr. Reid-> ABOUT OUR EDITOR: WALL STREET WHIZ! Mr. Steven Reid has 30 years of research experience having served as a Research Analyst, Director of Research and a member of various Investment Policy Committees at the various firms where he has worked. As a series #16 registered Supervisory Analyst Mr. Reid led various Research Departments with several analysts under him, giving Steve a broad exposure to a wide variety of companies and industries. Mr. Reid has lectured at UCLA, Santa Monica Community College, as well as appearing numerous times on both radio and television including the program 20/ 20. He has been quoted in a wide variety of magazines and newspapers including Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, Business Week as well as several specific trade publications. Additionally, Mr. Reid has appeared as an invited speaker and forum panelist before The Financial Analyst Federation, which is generally considered the governing body of Research Analysts. As an independent analyst, Mr. Reid has had a great deal of success in selecting emerging, small-cap companies that are generally overlooked by the larger Stock Brokerage Firms due to their size. However, this has been a fertile territory for making substantial profits over the past eight years. It should be noted that these small-cap companies are not impacted by the general stock market direction as are many larger "listed" securities. home.1freesite.net

To: afrayem onigwecher who wrote (413)	6/5/2000 10:24:00 AM
From: StockDung	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 435

"Says Steven Reid, who runs Oakmark Small Cap fund: "It drives me crazy when a small-cap manager sells a stock at a billion dollars even though he thinks it's worth a billion and a half, just because he doesn't want to cross the line." September 1998 Is Your Small-Cap Fund Cheating Managers say they can't find companies small enough. What is a small-company stock anyway? A report that two leading mutual fund data gatherers, Morningstar and Lipper Analytical Services, were considering revising their definitions of small-company stock funds has made this a hot-button topic. The issue is important for several reasons. Small-company stocks often behave differently than stocks of larger companies. Moreover, some companies that began the decade as truly small have appreciated in stock-market value to the point that they are large by any definition. And some investors, as well as consultants who advise companies on choosing funds for use in pension plans, like to make sure that funds adhere to a style. Managers of small-company funds in particular are pushing for change, says John Rekenthaler, Morningstar's research director. They're "squawking," he says, about having to sell good stocks that have appreciated beyond the small-stock range to remain true to their categorizations. At Morningstar, a small-company fund is one whose median market capitalization is less than $1 billion. Rekenthaler says that Morningstar may adopt a floating standard that adjusts boundaries in response to changes in the overall stock market. But some consultants object. They reason that if a fund's typical holding has grown in stock-market value over the years from, say, $500 million to $2 billion, the fund's basic character has changed. Moreover, because of this "style drift," the fund no longer fulfills the reason it was included in an investor's portfolio. Claudia Mott, a small-company-stock analyst at Prudential Securities, is more blunt: "Raising the market-cap hurdles just allows people to cheat." All this talk about style drift is so much hot air to many fund managers, who say that, more often than not, a fund seeks to adhere to a strategy of investing rather than a numerically defined style. Says Steven Reid, who runs Oakmark Small Cap fund: "It drives me crazy when a small-cap manager sells a stock at a billion dollars even though he thinks it's worth a billion and a half, just because he doesn't want to cross the line."