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To: Knighty Tin who wrote (239836)	5/9/2003 1:16:58 PM
From: Tommaso	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

RE Aussie bonds, my FAX is up something like 25% as well as paying a steady 10% or better on what I originally paid for it. I keep wondering if I should sell it but I cannot think of anything better (except maybe the Canadian energy trusts, and I have even more money in them already). Between FAX and NCN, I have a largely tax sheltered increment to my monthly income that increases my spendable dollars by over 20%.

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (239836)	5/9/2003 1:23:56 PM
From: zonder	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 436258

Remember I was talking about Turkish bonds? Well, I did 20% in USD terms in three months and sold out. Lost a few percentage points since then, but hey, gotta let others make money, too -g- I still have a USD/TRL position due mid-July and that's a flyin'...

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (239836)	5/9/2003 1:35:32 PM
From: Night Trader	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 436258

Mike, your job is safe - there are limits to outsourcing: Typing Monkeys Don't Write Shakespeare By JILL LAWLESS, Associated Press Writer LONDON - Give an infinite number of monkeys an infinite number of typewriters, the theory goes, and they will eventually produce the prose the likes of Shakespeare. Give six monkeys one computer for a month, and they will make a mess. Researchers at Plymouth University in England reported this week that primates left alone with a computer attacked the machine and failed to produce a single word. "They pressed a lot of S's," researcher Mike Phillips said Friday. "Obviously, English isn't their first language." A group of faculty and students in the university's media program left a computer in the monkey enclosure at Paignton Zoo in southwest England, home to six Sulawesi crested macaques. Then, they waited. At first, said Phillips, "the lead male got a stone and started bashing the hell out of it. "Another thing they were interested in was in defecating and urinating all over the keyboard," added Phillips, who runs the university's Institute of Digital Arts and Technologies. For the rest of the article see tinyurl.com