To: The Ox who wrote (13722 ) 8/2/2000 4:29:57 PM From: The Ox Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 14427 Good thing they narrowed it down to 60<vbg>Dain Rauscher Wessels Announces Best Stock Ideas for Second Half of 2000 MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 2, 2000--Dain Rauscher Wessels today announced its top stock picks for the second half of 2000, a list encompassing more than 60 stocks from the division's research universe of more than 400 companies. Companies included on the Best Ideas list are as follows: Anadarko Petroleum Corporation (NYSE: APC) Avanex Corporation (NASDAQ: AVNX) BEA Systems (NASDAQ: BEAS) Be Free, Inc. (NASDAQ: BFRE) Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BRCD) Barrett Resources Corporation (NYSE: BRR) Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NYSE: CDN) Concord EFS, Inc. (NASDAQ: CEFT) Cerner Corporation (NASDAQ: CERN) CacheFlow Inc. (NASDAQ: CFLO) Chordiant Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: CHRD) Chieftain International, Inc. (NYSE: CID) CIENA Corporation (NASDAQ: CIEN) CheckFree Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ: CKFR) CMGI, Inc. (NASDAQ: CMGI) Cox Communications, Inc. (NYSE: COX) Enron Corporation (NYSE: ENE) El Paso Energy Corporation (NYSE: EPG) Exodus Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: EXDS) Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) Guidant Corporation (NYSE: GDT) iBasis, Inc. (NASDAQ: IBAS) Immunex Corporation (NASDAQ: IMNX) Invitrogen Corporation (NASDAQ: IVGN) Interwoven Inc. (NASDAQ: IWOV) Liberate Technologies (NASDAQ: LBRT) Allscripts, Inc. (NASDAQ: MDRX) Medarex, Inc. (NASDAQ: MEDX) MIPS Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: MIPS) Multex.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: MLTX) Murphy Oil Corporation (NYSE: MUR) Nabors Industries, Inc. (AMEX: NBR) Netcentives Inc. (NASDAQ: NCNT) Natural MicroSystems Corporation (NASDAQ: NMSS) Netro Corporation (NASDAQ: NTRO) Nuance Communications (NASDAQ: NUAN) NEXTLINK Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NXLK) Outback Steakhouse, Inc. (NYSE: OSI) P.F. Chang's China Bistro, Inc. (NASDAQ: PFCB) Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) Proxicom, Inc. (NASDAQ: PXCM) Rational Software Corporation (NASDAQ: RATL) Royal Dutch Petroleum Company (NYSE: RD) REMEC, Inc. (NASDAQ: REMC) Transocean Sedco Forex (NYSE: RIG) RadioShack Corporation (NYSE: RSH) RadiSys Corporation (NASDAQ: RSYS) Rent-Way, Inc. (NYSE: RWY) Sanmina Corporation (NASDAQ: SANM) Scient Corporation (NASDAQ: SCNT) Siebel Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SEBL) Stone Energy Corporation (NYSE: SGY) Silicon Image, Inc. (NASDAQ: SIMG) Sirius Satellite Radio, Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI) Silicon Valley Bancshares (NASDAQ: SIVB) St. Jude Medical, Inc. (NYSE: STJ) TCF Financial Corporation (NYSE: TCB) TriQuint Semiconductor Inc. (NASDAQ: TQNT) Turnstone Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: TSTN) VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) Virata Corporation (NASDAQ: VRTA) Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO)