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Non-Tech : Any info about Iomega (IOM)? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Gary Wisdom who wrote (37544)	11/26/1997 11:34:00 AM
From: Gipper	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

WHAT HAPPENED TO ALL THOSE PEOPLE THAT BUY JUST BEFORE A SPLIT? DO YOU THINK THEY WILL SHOW UP ON FRIDAY?

To: Gary Wisdom who wrote (37544)	11/26/1997 12:02:00 PM
From: Teddy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

One good thing about the low volume on IOM today, it will give you plenty of time to read this and think of all the things that you can be thankful tomorrow (when there will be even less volume). Happy Thanksgiving to all. Stock market woes trigger suicides HONG KONG (Reuters) - A Hong Kong businesswoman gassed herself and her boyfriend leapt to his death from a window after they lost money in the territory's stock market crash, local media reported on Wednesday. Ma Wenhua, 42, was general manager at an investment company and her boyfriend Zhong Keyue worked for a mainland Chinese corporation, the Apple Daily newspaper said. They left a four-page letter when they killed themselves on Tuesday, saying they had lost money on the stock market. The Hong Kong stock market has plunged more than 38 percent since August. Many of the territory's 6.5 million people had invested in the market. In a similar incident, also on Tuesday, a woman with financial problems threatened to jump 19 floors from a tall building with her two young children in her arms, but police talked her out of the suicide attempt. The Sing Tao daily newspaper said the woman lost money in the market crash and a relative had refused to lend her HK$200,000 (US$25,700) to bail her out. REUTERS

To: Gary Wisdom who wrote (37544)	11/26/1997 3:59:00 PM
From: Tom Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

RE: Cabot effect (not!) Gary, I admit it. I'm surprised that all we saw was a bit of a run up at the open. I thought for sure that Cabot would precipitate more blind buying than that. I'm sure glad I sprinkled an "if" or two into my posts about all this. It's the only thing remotely resembling an excuse that I can trot out here instead of being forced to simply say I was wrong. In any event, even if there had been an immediate run-up on the Cabot recommendation, I wouldn't have bailed unless the PE got to something ridiculous like 80 or 100, as I said in the post. The earnings growth in this stock is too fast for me to have great confidence that a run to a PE of, say, 50 or 55 would be followed by a big enough reversal for a slow-moving trader like me to catch it. But it's only fair to score all the points on this one to those who thought Cabot wouldn't make more than a ripple. Go ahead and gloat. Oh, and Happy Thanksgiving. I'm thankful that you folks are here. Cheers, Tom (long IOM, and I guess staying that way <g>)