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To: wlheatmoon who wrote (2139)	1/25/2001 12:31:21 PM
From: John Pitera	Respond to of 2850

So NRG was spun off from XEL, I'll add NRG to my energy watch list. ------the company, which was partly spun off last year from Xcel Energy Inc., plans to add about 35,000 megawatts of generating capacity to its current 15,000 megawatts in the next five years, mostly in the United States. But in contrast to competitors, about one-third of the N.R.G. plants will be coal fired, with the others able to switch between natural gas and oil, Mr. Mataczynski said. While the California crisis has created a reaction of sorts against the generators — companies like Dynegy and Reliant Energy, both of Houston, and Duke Energy of Charlotte, N.C. — it is unlikely to greatly curtail their expansion. President Bush, whose Texas financial backers include companies profiting from the situation in California, has made it plain he is unlikely to impose caps on the price of wholesale power or other restraints that generators oppose. Yesterday, Mr. Bush's top economic advisers said that the federal government should let California solve its own power problem. Instead, Mr. Bush has proposed several initiatives to spur the electric power industry: opening protected land in the West to drilling for natural gas, investing in cleaner- burning coal-fired plants, and easing regulatory burdens on pipeline and power plant operators. At the state level, there are signs of retreat from deregulation. Of the two dozen states that still work on the old model of monopoly utilities with regulated rates and guaranteed profits, at least four have indicated they may rethink any moves toward open energy markets...-----

To: wlheatmoon who wrote (2139)	1/25/2001 12:40:50 PM
From: John Pitera	Respond to of 2850

I've got a value name for you PERY. Perry Ellis. a trailing PE of 4.7 a forward PE of 3 (according to WStreetCity) price to sales of .1 lots of insider buying biz.yahoo.com and some of it from higher levels. some of the other stocks in the area have really moved up the past year, such as RL, MSO, TOM. etc. RL and MSO have some really high PE's ... it just shows how investors move like sheep, from one extreme to another. here is a bit more on PERY: ------Perry Ellis International, Inc. (until 1999 Supreme International Corporation) designs and sells a line of men's sportswear, including sport and dress shirts, golf sportswear, sweaters, urban wear, casual and dress pants, and shorts. The company distributes its products under brand names such as Perry Ellis, Manhattan, Crossings, Natural Issue, John Henry, Andrew Fezza, PING, Munsingwear, Perry Ellis America, and PNB Nation to regional, national, and international department stores, chain stores, mass merchandisers, and specialty stores throughout the US, Puerto Rico, and Canada. Major customers include Target Corp.; Federated Department Stores, Inc.; Sears Roebuck & Co.; Kohl's Corporation; Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.; and J.C. Penney Company, Inc. ------