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To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (12756)12/8/1997 1:36:00 PM
From: ratan lal  Respond to of 70976
 
Brian

<< They were all ready to downgrade AMAT after it had fallen by
30-40%. A trained monkey can come in after the fact and say in retrospect, >>

What makes you think the monkey needs training ??

ratan



To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (12756)12/8/1997 2:41:00 PM
From: Barron Von Hymen  Respond to of 70976
 
One of my favourites things are how analyst firms have tiered rating systems. Like for the Platinum Portfolio clients of Firm "X", they will cut ratings on a stock but for regular clients, they don't change a thing. It makes absolute sense.