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To: TheStockFairy who wrote (115303)	8/2/2001 10:16:01 AM
From: Box-By-The-Riviera™	Respond to of 436258

why is this bullish? But Barrett said demand for personal computers was expected to improve in the second half of this year on buying ahead of the new school term and for the holiday season as well as by the introduction of the new Windows XP (news - web sites). ``Any rebound in the third quarter and fourth quarter will be more seasonal than fundamental,'' he said, adding that the sluggish global economy has made consumption patterns difficult to predict. ``It's very difficult to predict right now exactly what will happen. You have kind of a synchronous slowdown in all the economies, in the U.S., Europe and Japan,'' he said.