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To: Sully- who wrote (221)	10/4/2000 10:42:09 PM
From: elpolvo	Respond to of 104157

Ö¿Ö re: OOF well that's what i always thought it was until lately there's so much ACRONYM stuff going around and you started using it so much (i couldn't believe that you were getting socked in the stummy that much) so i had to ask. re: who won the debate? cryptic is good. -polvs

To: Sully- who wrote (221)	10/4/2000 10:51:56 PM
From: lindelgs	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 104157

Hey gang, looking thru my recent (& final) Money magazine I got in a few days ago...some interesting things- Page 68 Best Tech Stocks for 2001: Compaq - A new CEO is slashing costs & restructuring aggressively International Rectifier - The digital revolution is boosting demand for its power chips Lucent Technologies - After plummeting 50% this year, it's a compelling bargain Motorola - The handset giant is gaining ground after years of stumbling Nat'l Semiconductor - Its debt-free, boasts $800 million in cash and is growing fast Sawtek - A beaten-down maker of filters for mobile phones SpeechWorks Intl. - An aggressive bet on the huge promises of speech recognition (I'll post more info on SpeechWorks on the porch - someone over there has voice recognition software) ------------------- From Page 1: $10,000.00 invested in Cisco in 1990 is worth a whopping $7.5 million today, averaging returns of more than 100% a year ------------------ BEST OF THE WEB: Financial Portals: MSN Moneycentral - www.moneycentral.com "...there isn't another site around that can match it for the number and quality of its resources and tools, and no other portal so appropriately addresses the needs of every level of investor, from the neophyte to the guru. That's why MoneyCentral is our pick as the single best all-around financial destination on the Net ----------------- Investing: www.superstarinvestor.com: an obsessively detailed guide to virtually every significant investing site on the Web - unbelievably comprehensive, its the labor of one man, Terry Silver of San Ramon California - he spends around 17 hrs a day scouring the Internet --------------- Financial News: TheStreet.com CNNfn.com -------------- Stock Quotes and Data Market Guide (www.marketguide.com) tops their list as the best place to look up stock prices and other fundamental data - not surprising considering that Market Guide feeds financial data to more than 135 major websites, including Yahoo Finance & Schwab -------------- Stock Analysis: Multex Investor (www.multexinvestor.com) is the leading source for those much hyped buy-sell-hold stock reports put out by brokerage houses and research groups -------------- Portfolio Tracking & analysis: MSN MoneyCentral (www.moneycentral.com) The most worthwhile portfolio tracking sites can follow a stable of stocks from the date and price at which they were purchased, adjust for splits and dividends, and point out holes in your portfolio. The high-powered tracker at MSN MoneyCentral fits that bill and then some. (as long as you are on a PC) It automatically updates prices every 5 minutes, categorizes your stocks by six criteria, including risk and market capitalization, and provides advice on how to better diversity your holdings - its surprisingly easy to use ---------------- Stock Screeners MSN MoneyCentral's Stock Finder (www.moneycentral.com/investor) is tough to beat for serious stock screening. Mac users, try Wall Street City's ProSearch (www.wallstreetcity.com) ---------------- Charts: MSN MoneyCentral (same as above) trumps the field in this category too -------------- Bulletin Boards Motley Fool Raging Bull Silicon Investor - has amond the most highly trafficked tech boards, and for good reason - the site tends to foster relatively intellectual stock discussions. Fortune 500 CEOs have been known to listen in on the chatter, and there is such camaraderie that members sometimes meet offline to debate stocks. (side note - really!) ------------- Miscellaneous: InvestorWords (www.investorwords.com) Dismal Scientist (www.dismalscientist.com) - latest global data ------------ Banking: www.virtualbank.com ------------ Calculators: www.financenter.com - more than 100 calculators on subjects ranging from mutual funds to mortgages ----------- Home Buying and Loans: www.realtor.com ----------- Insurance www.insurance.com ----------- Retirement Planning MSN MoneyCentral (again) ------------ taxes www.taxplanet.com for a guide that is specifically designed for investors, you can head to: Fairmark Press Tax Guide for Investors (www.fairmark.com). Whether you're a buy-and-hold strategist or a day-trader, you will find useful advice for offsetting capital gains taxes or for writing off your home computer. ------------------------ Hope I didn't make too many type-o's here - if a address doesn't work, just let me know. There is also a section in there for best sites to plan travel, shopping online, car shopping too a wealth of information! -------------------- I think I'm going to cross this over to the Porch cause of all this info. Cheer's guys! Legs