Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Formerly About Applied Materials -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Big Bucks who wrote (14395)	1/11/1998 1:26:00 AM
From: Gottfried	Respond to of 70976

BB, > but consumers/mfgs will buy the least expensive memory until forced to upgrade to faster/larger memory...< Not this consumer. I'd tell the seller "here's an extra twenty bucks - double the memory", because I know it'll come in handy. And the extra $$$ is just a couple percent of the machine's purchase price. Consumers are getting smarter and are getting better advice. I guess they call that price elasticity? GM

To: Big Bucks who wrote (14395)	1/11/1998 1:51:00 AM
From: Gottfried	Respond to of 70976

BB, lest you become too gloomy... smartmoney.com EARNINGS SCORECARD: MOST EARNINGS REPORTS BEAT THE STREET WITH EARNINGS SEASON just getting underway, we decided the best way to keep apprised of reporting trends is to give you a daily running tally of how many companies are beating Wall Street earnings expectations and how many are falling behind. So far, upside surprises are out in front, with 53.6% of the quarterly earnings reports out since mid-December beating estimates, according to Zacks Investment Research. Only 29.9% of the 211 companies that have reported came in below estimates, pretty much in line with what happened last year at this time. If your powder has caked, put it in a sack and pound it. GM