To: Lee Lichterman III who wrote (1979 ) 3/6/2001 8:34:42 AM From: Lee Lichterman III Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 52237 By L3_Aka_L3 on Tuesday, March 06, 2001 - 08:30 am: Edit Economic releases this morning.... 8:30 am Productivity-Rev. 2.1% 10:00 am Factory Orders Q4 Jan -3.4% News.... Citigroup sees slowdown - 6:18 a.m. ET Citigroup Inc., the nation's largest financial services company, is paring back on as much as $2 billion in investments and expenses as it braces for the economic slowdown, according to a published report Tuesday cnnfn.cnn.com Citigroup is up though in pre-market. Bayer Full-Year Profit Declines 9%; to Reorganize Board, Reduce Members Bayer AG, Germany's biggest drugmaker, said 2000 profit fell 9 percent after a one-time gain from the sale of a unit affected 1999 results. quote.bloomberg.com AMZN admits hackers got in and stole cuctomer credit card numbers. Bloomberg TV news this morning YHOO downgraded by GS Bloomberg TV news this morning JNPR in merger talks with someone, sorry I missed it. Can't find anything on it online but I heard it and all the rest below on Bloomberg TV Noreaster being down graded in most areas with storm expected to not be as bad as forecasted. MCD recalling happy meal skating toys for choking hazard. Staples were lower by 9 cents from last year but beat lowered estimates by a penny. Heinz is going to miss by over 20 cents. I might add many food stocks bought as a flight to safety are ridiculously high right now. Expect this to get killed today. Someone posted an interesting chart yesterday over lapping the NASDAQ and MO. I went back and built my own of defensive play stocks and just as RJR and MO etc moved up the NASDAQ broke down. I am thinking this may serve o help find bottom also. The real bottom may not come until we see these start to come down showing money is not as scared and is willing to come back in. I suspect any moves up in the techs without money rotating out of Bonds, MO etc will just be bear rallies. Looks like a good open from the futures. I am off to the hospital for the day. Keep this thing climbing for me. I would love to see a huge up day when I return. Good Luck, Lee