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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (42269)	11/5/2000 4:50:53 PM
From: FESHBACH_DISCIPLE	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 77400

to LIZZIE Here's a brief comment from bill f. in case you haven't seen it. Not good. That ain't no rounding error. . . One item of interest was the Commitment of Traders Report from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which showed that the Commercials are now short almost 70,000 S&P contracts -- another world record. That, I assure you, is not bullish.

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (42269)	11/6/2000 10:00:56 AM
From: Wyätt Gwyön	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 77400

but I believe what happened 10 years ago to Japan is they failed to invest in technology R&D spending as a percentage of GDP is higher in Japan than in the US. This is true for both gross-domestic and business-sector R&D. oecd.org they are hindered by the japanese language as well as their management hierarchy and new industries just didn't happen for them Think of a sword that cuts both ways. The amount of info flowing into Japan from the Anglophone world far exceeds the amount of Japanese info flowing the other way. Few decisionmakers or technical people in the US can read Japanese, so they must rely on translations. But most of the translated data is manuals or marketing material from Japanese sources, or patents being filed at the US PTO. Not much is translated purely for the benefit of an Anglophone readership wanting to know what is going on in the second largest economy in the world! Just last night NHK showed scenes from a high-level conference including Japan's PM as well as Sony CEO Idei...the conference theme is making Japan the top IT country in the world within 5 years. "Business is war" and only a fool would count the Japanese out of the high-tech market over the next decade.