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To: Tommaso who wrote (93981)	1/9/2002 4:05:35 PM
From: S. maltophilia	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

I wonder what this kid would have said had he called you in, say, 1999.

To: Tommaso who wrote (93981)	1/9/2002 4:06:15 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 132070

Anyway, this guy seemed to approve of my holding gold stocks. So maybe they are coming back into fashion. How many other sectors went up last year?

To: Tommaso who wrote (93981)	1/9/2002 4:15:24 PM
From: Knighty Tin	Respond to of 132070

T, The first thing that amazed me was that Quick & Reilly are still in business. <g> Many of the big discounters are trying to become some sort of hybrid. They don't want to compete with the online bare bones firms, but they also don't want to pay for some huge research staff (I would sell ours for a quarter and probably couldn't get any buyers <g>). So, many are outsourcing research to some firm that claims to do that and still keep transactional commissions lower than full service. It is kind of like dealing with a financial planner who can do trades. I am curious to see if it works. But, yeah, gold must be in favor if the discounters like it. <g>