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To: Donald Wennerstrom who wrote (1537)	1/4/2002 8:56:49 AM
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Going up Don, from Briefing.com: 8:35AM : Results of the December Employment Report with expectations in parenthesis; nonfarm payrolls -124K (-155K); unemployment rate 5.8% (5.8%); hourly earnings 0.5% (0.3%). All in all, the December numbers are as expected. The revised figures for November -- the November payrolls number was revised to -371K from an inital reading of -331K; the November unemployment rate was revised to 5.6% from the intial read of 5.7%. The pre-market tone has improved behind the Employment Report -- S&P futures at 1168, trade two points above fair value while the Nasdaq 100 pre-market indicator is higher by 7.6 points. 7:22AM Intel (INTC) 35.52: Salomon Smith Barney positive on INTC, believes that all indicators show that co had a strong finish to Q4, driven by solid P4 demand and modestly firmer pricing; higher revs should give a slight boost to gross margins, which should drive higher profits. Firm maintains Buy rating and raises Q4 rev/EPS ests to $6.98 bln/$0.12 from $6.8 bln/$0.10, raises 2002 EPS est to $0.70 from $0.65, and raises price target to $45 from $40. finance.yahoo.com RtS