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To: Mick Mørmøny who wrote (169600)	5/13/2002 2:31:15 PM
From: kemble s. matter	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 176387

Mick, Hi!! RE: . The most controversial of S&P's new standards would treat employee stock options as a quarterly expense against earnings. The matter has drawn attention in Congress where Sens. Carl Levin (D., Mich.) and John McCain (R., Ariz.) have proposed legislation that would require companies to show their stock options as an annual expense or risk losing certain tax breaks. These guys have me laughing on the floor...Let's have them talk about the pork their colleagues spend daily and have spent for yeeeeeeeeeaars with the tax dollars of all of us...Then I'll listen to their concerns about "saving" the shareholders from themselves... Best, Kemble

To: Mick Mørmøny who wrote (169600)	5/14/2002 5:23:02 PM
From: mepci	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

Mick: One item they should not have excluded: Unrealized gains and losses on hedging activities. These are important items effecting the cash flows of companies and SE. As per saving the money to cover losses in Dell stock, I don't expect Dell to fall below $25 for any length of time. Even though the hedging has created an actual loss of SE. I hope Dell continues to do hedging (wisely). n the long run these losses should have evened out and even generated more profits to Dell. My uneasiness is more how SE is made to suffer while the mgmt. is reaping all the benefits of hedging and dumping all the losses on stockholders.