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To: steve harris who wrote (155390)	1/15/2002 7:44:06 AM
From: puborectalis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Merrill Lynch issued a bullish pre-earnings report on Intel overnight, saying it expects the chipmaker to "meet or exceed" Merrill's fourth quarter revenue estimate of $6.96 billion and earnings per share estimate of 12 cents. Analyst Joe Osha said the consensus earnings estimate for Intel in 2002 is "too low" at 62 cents per share; he is estimating earnings per share for 2002 of 70 cents. "As estimates are raised, we expect the impact on the stock to be positive," Osha tells clients overnight.

To: steve harris who wrote (155390)	1/15/2002 3:52:01 PM
From: John Hull	Respond to of 186894

Steve, re:"I wish I could use part of my portfolio and invest in companies before their stock is available to the general public." You can. If you are a "qualified" investor which means you have sufficient net assets or meet some of the other criteria, then you can put you money into VC funds as a limited partner. There are even a few for people without the big wallets like "meVC", the Draper-Fisher portfolio that is traded on the NYSE (symbol: MVC). I'd only warn you to be really careful with what you do in this area. there are serious risks inherent in private company investing that are usually not very palatable to most individual investors. jh