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To: Flair who wrote (4767)	1/22/1998 11:44:00 PM
From: Sonki	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

use clinton, korea etc. to buy ! i m even going to start buying leaps tomorrow. what happened to #5? do you know. that was supposed to happen this week.

To: Flair who wrote (4767)	1/23/1998 1:30:00 AM
From: Flair	Respond to of 74651

Sonki, Ibexx, and all, "Today's calls/puts tradings of Microsoft". Reuters Story - January 22, 1998 22:37 CHICAGO, Jan 22 (Reuters) - Options on Microsoft Corp saw heavy trade Thursday following the announcement of a partial settlement in the U.S. Justice Department's antitrust case against the company. "It's very active," said a market maker in the Microsoft crowd at the Pacific Exchange. With large orders for both puts and calls flowing into the pit, a directional bias to the activity wasn't easily discernible, the market maker said. But a drop in the options' implied volatility, down to 28 percent from an average in the low-30s, suggested more investors were taking bullish positions in the stock, he said. "Selling volatility is usually more bullish," the market maker said. Most-active Microsoft strikes were the March 150 calls with volume of 5,160 contracts, February 140 calls at 4,712, February 130 calls at 3,337 and February 135 calls at 3,073. On the put side, the February 130 strike traded 5,011 contracts, the February 135 strike traded 3,053 and the March 135 strike traded 3,566. In the partial settlement announced this morning, attorneys for Microsoft and the Justice Department said computer makers licensing the Windows 95 operating system can delete the icon for the company's Internet Explorer browser. The settlement did not resolve the larger Justice Department charge that Microsoft violated a 1995 consent decree forbidding the company from forcing computer makers that license Windows to use other Microsoft products. Microsoft rose 1-5/8 on the day to 138-5/8. The company said Wednesday that second-quarter profits rose 52 percent but warned that the Asian crisis could hurt future results.

To: Flair who wrote (4767)	1/23/1998 1:35:00 AM
From: Flair	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

All, "Microsoft declines comment on BT rumors" Reuters Story - January 23, 1998 00:07 SEATTLE, Jan 22 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp declined comment on Thursday on market rumors that the company was considering a bid for British Telecommunications Plc . "We don't comment on rumors," a spokeswoman for the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant said. One industry analyst said the rumor sounded extremely unlikely, noting that past Microsoft acquisitions have been confined to the computer software industry. He said it was possible Microsoft was in discussions with the British giant over ways to speed Internet access through emerging technologies such as digital subscriber lines. The biggest acquisition Microsoft ever attempted was a $2 billion deal to purchase rival software maker Intuit Inc , which was dropped after the U.S. Justice Department objected on antitrust grounds. British Telecom has a market capitalization of about 36 billion pounds or $60 billion. British Telecom shares surged Thursday on takeover speculation that also mentioned AT&T Corp . and other U.S. telecommunications companies as potential buyers.