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Technology Stocks : Y2K (Year 2000) Stocks: An Investment Discussion -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Skeptic who wrote (7774)	11/12/1997 3:34:00 PM
From: Done, gone.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13949

>> earnings are there << Um, 'scuse me, but have you been reading this thread? If so, can you please tell me what percentage of the companies around the world are done assessing with their y2k remediation needs, let along done with their y2k remediation? Hmmm? Few know and fewer care. --Proverb. Bounced Czech (FBN - Beginning!)

To: Skeptic who wrote (7774)	11/12/1997 4:01:00 PM
From: Gerald Underwood	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13949

Skeptic, You may be forgetting several major factors. While stockholders may buy low and sell high taking profit from anticipated company success, company earnings generally follow another route. It's called capitol appreciation. The same factors that are driving the stock prices will soon display themselves as a massive earnings fulfillment for the right companies and this capitol will be put to work earning more capitol. As y2k earnings taper down, euro dollars will supplant to be continued by a lot of catch up work that has been put aside while computer personnel are focused on y2k efforts. Then you have the massive maintenance and growth efforts that it will take to drive the internet and distributed computing. Y2k may well be just a temporary stall to the momentum that has been created by our technological progress. Since when have computer demands ever, ever tapered down? {:-). JMO. Best Wishes, Gerry