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To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (89212)	3/25/2001 6:07:17 PM
From: isopatch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 95453

Entering peak period for warnings: "Normally the peak [profit warning] weeks would be [this] week and the two weeks after that," said Chuck Hill, director of research at earnings tracker First Call. And that's not all. Hill expects a record number of warnings from companies who next month report actual results for the January-March period. For the first quarter, analysts surveyed by First Call forecast profits among companies in the Standard & Poor's 500 index falling 7.2 percent, on average. That tally, if it holds, would be the worst quarter since 1991." cnnfn.cnn.com