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To: hlpinout who wrote (96429)	3/20/2002 9:56:37 PM
From: Elwood P. Dowd	Respond to of 97611

Consumers' optimism surges: ABC News/Money survey shows views on economic expectations climb to highest level in 18 years. March 20, 2002: 11:47 AM EST NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - American consumers' view of the economy improved to an 18-year high for the month ended March 17, according to an ABC News/Money magazine survey. About 47 percent of Americans see the economy improving, an increase of 18 percentage points from mid-February and 38 points from the month ended Sept. 16, 2001. The current level was last seen when the economy emerged from the 1980-82 recession according to the survey.

To: hlpinout who wrote (96429)	3/20/2002 11:02:09 PM
From: Captain Jack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

Anyone hear noise from cpq about component costs------- SAN FRANCISCO, March 20 (Reuters) - Apple Computer Inc <AAPL.O> on Wednesday jacked up the price on its low-end iMac desktop computer by $100, complaining that prices of components were going through the roof. The price increase takes the consumer line, introduced with great fanfare early this year, up to a range of about $1,400 to $1,900, Apple said in a statement. "Since the new iMac's launch in January, memory costs have tripled and flat-panel (display) costs have increased with little relief in sight," Phil Schiller, senior vice president of worldwide marketing said in the release. Apple has shipped 125,000 iMacs and is now shipping more than 5,000 per day, Greg Joswiak, Apple senior director of hardware marketing, said in an interview. He added that component pricing was affecting all personal computer makers. Apple at its Macworld Tokyo exposition also debuted free software that lets its iPod portable music player hold contact lists, an improvement that heads the music player, which can also act as a portable hard drive, toward the personal digital organiser (PDA) arena where Apple has no product. "It is not trying to be a PDA. It is a music player with some extended functionality," Joswiak said. The contact list does not synchronise with any contacts program, he added. In addition, Apple introduced an iPod with 10 gigabytes of storage, twice the previous level, for about $500, $100 more than the 5-gigabyte version, and a 23-inch high-resolution display. ((Peter Henderson, San Francisco Bureau 415 677-2578 peter.henderson@reuters.com))