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To: 10K a day who wrote (45836)4/24/2001 9:58:28 AM
From: 10K a day  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 70976
 
I think all these arguments.
>Rate of change of deccelleration.
>Book to bill near historical lows.
>3 quarters to make sphaggetti.
These are all just chants.
We are all singing KUMBAYA hoping that this sector doesn't get smashed like everybody else .
argument -> it's horrible so it can't get any worse.
argument -> what is up is down and what is down is up.
It's all just the JOKER broker games.
that's all this is.
(if joker brokers want out they run it up BIG)
Everybody wants to make it relative to something.
So they can make sense of it.
Give them something to grasp on to.
You want answers.
I don't have answers.
You want complete sentences.
Buy a Magazine.



To: 10K a day who wrote (45836)4/24/2001 11:13:33 AM
From: Math Junkie  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 70976
 
The Cisco write-offs are certainly amazing. Maybe you've already seen this article about EMC trying to buy their products back from bankruptcy auctions:

aol.thestreet.com

And of course, of significance to AMAT is that all of this state-of-the-art surplus equipment uses chips.