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To: reaper who wrote (199334)	10/22/2002 4:17:21 PM
From: James F. Hopkins	Respond to of 436258

He just bought a Farm Tractor company, the whole thing. ( which is more his style than stocks ) Jim

To: reaper who wrote (199334)	10/22/2002 4:32:40 PM
From: Roads End	Respond to of 436258

Is it your take the COCO business has printed enough MBAs for this cycle? Recessions are notorious for ringing the bell for the students to come back.

To: reaper who wrote (199334)	10/22/2002 4:36:26 PM
From: mishedlo	Respond to of 436258

Reaper , here is one I had not thought of. Thoughts on Sallie Mae? All time high today on student loan spreads biz.yahoo.com

To: reaper who wrote (199334)	10/23/2002 7:33:19 PM
From: mishedlo	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 436258

TGT - this sucker headed to our favorite number? LT debt increasing every Q $9,735,000,000 $8,943,000,000 $8,088,000,000 $8,711,000,000 sales are down Consumer credit starting to rot. money.cnn.com Foley thinks Target's (TGT: Research, Estimates) relatively recent introduction of its Visa card program is troubling. The retailer, which garners about 17 percent of its operating income from credit-card operations, saw charge-offs (debt that's been written off) spike by 2.03 percentage points to 8.1 percent in September. "Our delinquency rates and writeoffs are well within our expectations," said a Target spokeswoman. "We feel that we are very conservative and prudent." Circuit City's credit-card operation saw delinquencies (payments past due) climb 0.3 percentage points to 8 percent and charge-offs increase 0.6 percentage points to 12.5 percent in September -- a signal that could "mark the beginning of worsening trends" at its finance arm, observed Prudential Securities analyst Mark Rowen. Circuit City (CC: Research, Estimates) did not comment for this article. stockcharts.com[w,a]daclyyay[pb50!b200][vc60][iUh14,3!Li14,3]&pref=G M