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To: Sonny McWilliams who wrote (26679)	11/9/2000 10:50:27 AM
From: Ann Janssen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27012

Hi Everyone!! It's been an interesting past few days huh??!! Well did you vote for the winner or did you vote for the winner?? <GGG> Geesh, this election is just about as exciting as the orange bowl will be between the huskers and the noles in January!! <LOL> See nothing's over until the fat lady sings. It looks like we won't know for a while who really did 'win' the election. Someone correct me if I am wrong but I think the electoral college votes on Dec 18. We also have lawsuits being filed in Florida over the look of the ballot. The 19K votes being thrown out because people voted for Gore and Buchanan. Personally if we want to make this fair I think ALL states should be recounted. I was also surprised my neighbors to the east (Iowa) were 49/49% for Gore and Bush. Did everyone have record turn out at the poles?? We did but we had some very major issues on our local ballots. Sonny, I don't remember if you still have some of this laying around or not?? I've got DIS but never found a good buy point on PIXR. From briefing.com 09:43 ET Pixar Animation (PIXR) 32 +11/16 (+2.2%): After the close, PIXR reported Q3 earnings of $0.18 a share, 11 cents above Wall Street views. Firm also raised its fiscal year 2000 earnings view to $1.45, compared to the First Call mean of $1.39. 08:43 ET Walt Disney (DIS) 36 7/8: -- Update -- Reports Q4 earnings of $0.20 a share excluding its interest in the Internet Group, 3 cents above Wall Street views. Revenues rose 6.0% to $6.03 bln. I don't think much is going to help DIS go up, it seems to like to go down. Some Dell Commentary news.cnet.com Test you bandwidth speed. This would be a good one to try before and after you setup or DSL line. Or just for fun. computingcentral.com Internet Voting???!!! search.businessweek.com AOL/Time Warner Merger news.cnet.com usatoday.com Personal Comment. If you like to watch flip,flip,flip on your TV stay away from the Digital cable for a while. We are trying it and it is nice but hubby can't watch the same channel for more than 30 seconds, unless it's battlebots on comedy central. <gg> The Cable box will reboot several times a day if your not careful. It's very annoying. Tip if you have one, let it catch up if you find your self power flipping or you'll be waiting 3-5 minutes for it to re-boot. I hope everyone is having a great day!! Take Care and I'll catch ya all later! Ann

To: Sonny McWilliams who wrote (26679)	11/10/2000 9:54:23 AM
From: William Hunt	Respond to of 27012

Sonny ---Good Morning ---A followup on the fuel cell article : biz.yahoo.com It is definitely where we need to be headed ! Boy I wish Greenspan would wake up and do something about interest rates . They are predicting growth of 2 % or less for next year . It would not take much to put us in a recession such as the productivity numbers dropping . The houses are using the election and their analysts to take apart the market . One day it the networkers , next the chip sectors etc . They seem to be targeting different groups on a regular basis . Maybe it payback time for Fair Disclosure . Boy due we need some grown-ups involved in this election process . This continual barrage of BS is a joke . By the way did you see the latest issue of ESQUIRE ( December ) where MR Clinton would like an apology from Congress for falsely impeaching him ? The latest rumor is that Hillary will be running for President in 2008 . Does Australia still allow immigration ? BEST WISHES BILL

To: Sonny McWilliams who wrote (26679)	11/22/2000 9:07:47 PM
From: William Hunt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27012

Sonny ---Greenspan needs to get his act together and forget oil ---he is going TO KILL the one issue that he has had on his side for the last ten years ---productivity . The Party Economy is Over Wednesday, November 22, 2000 By Robert Clow The nation's longest economic boom is showing increasing signs of winding down - and possibly coming to an end. Economists are still calling for strong U.S. economic growth next year, but there are also many indications of weakness. In the markets there is plenty of cause for alarm. And at least 100 dot-coms have closed or downsized this year, with others announcing cuts almost daily. The telecom sector is looking increasingly shaky. Michael Armstrong's AT&T is breaking itself apart, and Bernie Ebbers' WorldCom has admitted its business strategy does not work. Corporate defaults and downgrades are ticking up, leading to worries about banks' loan portfolios. Last week Bank of America and First Union announced they were writing down a loan from consumer appliance manufacturer Sunbeam. "For every upgrade, we have four downgrades," said Nick Riccio, a managing director responsible for corporate debt ratings at Standard & Poor's Corp. "The thing that is a concern is that you can see the trend continuing." As a result, nervous investors are increasingly shying away from new high-yield bond and leveraged loan deals. And even investment-grade bonds, which should still be trading well in a fast-growing economy have sold off to levels not seen in years. Meanwhile, the Dow Jones industrial average and S&P 500 are down 9 percent since the beginning of the year, while the Nasdaq has lost 29 percent. This week, in a note entitled "Mea Culpa," Jeff Applegate, Lehman Brothers' equity strategist, and long-time bull, acknowledged that he had overestimated the strength of the stock market over the last year - although he's still sticking with his positive forecast. And the ever-vigilant Federal Reserve Board is keeping interest rates high and threatening a further hike if inflation spikes up. That does not mean anyone is losing faith in the U.S. economic miracle just yet. "We are worried, but we are optimistic," said Paddy Jilek, an economist at Credit Suisse First Boston. CSFB is predicting no change in interest rates for the next year as the economy gradually slows. Nevertheless, Jilek adds: "When the economy slows, you must be concerned. You never know when it's going to stop. If markets overshoot in response to worries, clearly it will have an impact on the real economy." Jilek and his colleagues are watching for any slowing in corporate investment - which could indicate productivity growth was going to slow - or in consumer spending. Consumer spending has been one of the main engines of domestic growth. But even if the U.S. economy continues to grow, it could find itself walking a tightrope. A survey of economists from Philadelphia's Federal Reserve Bank this week said the economy will grow by a healthy 3.3 percent rate next year while inflation remains tame. But in a study released the same day, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development predicted the U.S. would only maintain its growth at the cost of sparking inflation. The OECD expects the Fed to tighten the reins again next year. Energy is one factor that worries the Fed. Oil prices continue to hover around $30 with no sign of dropping. High energy prices could slow the economy by increasing production costs, but judging from the Fed's recent comments, it's more worried that high oil prices are the result of inflated demand rather than weak supply, and it is still ready to act to dampen that demand. Any rate hike could be bad news for the securities industry, which is already coming under increased scrutiny from analysts, and for New York City, which relies heavily on Wall Street to drive its prosperity. Analysts including Guy Moszkowski of Salmon Smith Barney, Amy Butte of Bear Stearns and Judah Kraushaar of Merrill Lynch have been warning for a while that investment banks' earnings will come under pressure in the next few quarters. On Monday, the stock market reacted to warnings from Bank of America and First Union by selling down the commercial banks' stocks. Then, yesterday, Merrill's Kraushaar downgraded asset managers, citing full valuations and earnings risks. The problem for Wall Street, the main street banks and investors is that the tech and telecom boom was responsible for such a large part of their returns - and many analysts and investors now consider it over. Moszkowski estimated in a recent report that more than 80 percent of many securities firms' underwriting calendars was New Economy business. Asset managers relied on the stratospheric returns of tech companies to drive their fund inflows. But now even the loudest and most enthusiastic Wall Street cheerleaders are turning skeptical about tech and telecom. Just yesterday, Merrill analyst Michael Ching downgraded telecom equipment maker Lucent, reflecting that stock's fall from a lofty height after its spinoff from AT&T. And Mary Meeker, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter's Internet analyst - and, until recently, one of the queens of the New Economy - warned that Yahoo!, an Internet bellwether and one of the few dot-com stocks with real earnings, might miss its figures. BEST WISHES BILL