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To: Hawk who wrote (120929)	12/6/2000 4:33:19 PM
From: Diamond Jim	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

"get away with" Get away with is right. If what they say is not true then why shouldn't they be sued? I don't see much difference in what they are doing and someone screaming "fire" in a crowded theater. jim

To: Hawk who wrote (120929)	12/7/2000 8:22:59 PM
From: 2maclean	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Hawk, I've been a lurker here for 3 years and just signed up, so forgive any awkwardness. However, this issue- analysts trading their own accounts- seems to come up often, so I thought I'd add my own observations. I was a sell-side analyst for 30 years(largely with the same firm, although four name changes made me seem like more of a job hopper). Our policy- and the director of research, who saw all trades, would break a trade in violation-was: analysts could: buy- and ONLY BUY- his/her stocks rated 1 (recommended list) or 2 (outperform); sell- and ONLY SELL- his/her stocks rated 4 or 5 (I was never clear about stocks rated 3- "market perform"). Reason: we didn't want to be "humiliated" in the press; i.e."Analyst sells stock he/she is 'recommending'(i.e., rated "2")"(remember Jeff Vinik and MU?). Means: If I, say, downgraded Intel from "1" to "2", the message would be clear- but if I owned the stock, I could not sell it. I always felt that a 1-5 scale was BS and allowed for too many cop outs. 1-3, at most, would keep analysts honest (if that was possible- at our firm, it would have been). Again, I don't know about other firms explicitly- but I do know some forbade ANY trading by analysts in their covered stocks. Seems a bit harsh, don't you think? Stuart