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Strategies & Market Trends : Waiting for the big Kahuna -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mark Adams who wrote (50114)	2/4/2001 8:23:05 PM
From: William H Huebl	Respond to of 94695

I would be more concerned with retail sales than employer withholding... it can get thrown off by end of year bonuses and so forth! Remember when everyone was bullish... "THIS TIME IT'S DIFFERENT" and all that? Well the bears can be right for a period of time also! I still have seen no trend change and most important of all: THE COMMERCIALS ARE STILL BETTING ON A FALL!!! Say what you want about the bears and the gold bugs, but for once, they seem to be on the right side of things. Lessee, HM 5 call options are selling for...

To: Mark Adams who wrote (50114)	2/4/2001 9:55:37 PM
From: Skeet Shipman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 94695

Thanks Mark, Most interesting articles. In my view we are sputtering along. Weekly banking activity at least is getting reported that way - one week near normal, the next near recession levels. The dollar I believe was a major contributing factor to the severity of the drop in manufacturing activity - compounding our slowing growth in demand by making our goods less competitive overseas and with imports. If we can keep the dollar at a reasonable level we will avoid a recession. Skeet