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To: KLN who wrote (14367)4/7/1998 5:37:00 PM
From: E  Respond to of 31646
 
Just caught up on the last 100+ posts, and it read just like when TAVA corrected when it was in the 6's-- the tension between wanting the stock to rise and wanting another chance to get it on sale, the messages from the confident vs. those who took their profits at 6. The few who still think the millennium bug is exaggerated.

Long, interesting y2k piece in the Financial Times, April 5. Some snippets:

...there is a growing number of people for whom it [y2k] will flash up dollar signs...

For those in the roofing business, the worse the hurricane, the better it gets. The Gartner Group, the US researchers, has estimated the cost of rising to the millennium challenge to be $600bn...considerably greater than the cost of the Vietnam conflict or the Kobe Earthquake...

SBC, the European investment bank, is considering launching a series of call options -- derivatives giving investors the right to buy an investment at a fixed price on a future date-- against baskets of Y2K-friendly stocks...

Even if the majority of the world's countries fix every single one of their computers, significant problems could still be imported from the handful that did not...