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To: michael97123 who wrote (51554)	9/6/2001 10:37:36 AM
From: Joseph Beltran	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

michael, I/m getting the impression that someone(?) is desperately trying to get the nasdaq below 1700 but the index is putting up one heck of a fight. I'm like you. I'm not selling anything. i ran out of cash and deployed some margin to buy JBL today. I couldn't help the price. Just too tempting. I'm also eyeing SFA and if CIEN gets to 10 I'll go ballistic and deploy massive amounts of margin to buy. I think tech mutual funds have been forced to sell just about anything and everything to cover redemptions.

To: michael97123 who wrote (51554)	9/6/2001 10:38:30 AM
From: michael97123	Respond to of 70976

- Ross Stores August same-store sales up 9 percent In NEWARK, Calif. story headlined ``Ross Stores August same-store sales up 9 percent'', please read start of second paragraph as ``The company also said it expected earnings of 42 to 44 cents in the third quarter, up from 36 cents a year ago...'' instead of ``...up from 50 cents a year ago...'' (Corrects figure from a year ago). A corrected version follows. NEWARK, Calif., Sept 6 (Reuters) - Ross Stores Inc. (NasdaqNM:ROST - news), the second-largest U.S. off-price clothing chain, said Thursday that sales rose 9 percent in August at stores open for at least a year on strength in most major markets. The company also said it expected earnings of 42 to 44 cents in the third quarter, up from 36 cents a year ago; 50 to 54 cents in the fourth quarter versus 56 cents a year ago and $1.79 to $1.85 for the full year, compared with $1.82 a year ago. Those forecasts, more optimistic than previously planned, are based on 4 to 6 percent same-store sales gains in September, 2 to 4 percent gains in October and 1 to 3 percent gains for the fourth quarter, the company said. Total sales in the four weeks ended Sept. 1 rose 20 percent to $238 million, the company said.