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To: ild who wrote (31662)	6/7/2005 3:38:24 PM
From: mishedlo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116555

The swift dip in the market is being attributed to comments from Atlanta Federal Reserve President Jack Guynn that he is "uncomfortable" with speculation in the housing market. He says: "In some markets -- I won't name individual cities in the Southeast -- the activity in residential real estate looks pretty speculative to me and that makes me very uncomfortable. I don't think this is sustainable. There is a very good chance that some lenders, some buyers and some builders will get burned from what I see in some of those submarkets." Guynn's remarks followed a voluble discussion of interest rate trends Monday night by Alan Greenspan. Speaking by satellite to a monetary conference in China, the Fed chief reiterated his mystification with the refusal of long-term rates to rise in tandem with short ones like the fed funds lever. Greenspan reviewed a number of explanations for the phenomenon but found none completely satisfactory. thestreet.com

To: ild who wrote (31662)	6/7/2005 3:41:33 PM
From: mishedlo	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116555

U.S. April consumer credit rises $1.3 billion What time did this news come out? Tuesday, June 7, 2005 7:15:22 PM afxpress.com WASHINGTON (AFX) -- U.S. consumer credit rose in April at an annual rate of 0.7%, or $1.3 billion, the Federal Reserve said Tuesday. The increase was much less than expected. Economists surveyed by MarketWatch were expecting consumer credit to rise by $7.4 billion. Credit card debt decreased 0.6% in April, while nonrevolving credit like auto loans rose 1.5%

To: ild who wrote (31662)	6/7/2005 4:34:38 PM
From: benwood	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116555

If you have a browser that shows what a link is before you click it (by hovering the mouse over the link in Firefox, it shows up along the bottom info bar), you can see that the PayPal logon link is to some random IP address. So instead of seeing "https://www.paypal.com/" you'll see something like this: 203.177.100.xxx:82/paypal/ This is a real one I have, except the xxx was actually 115. Notice that it's for port 82, a non-standard port, too.