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To: bearshark who wrote (18426)	5/12/1998 10:46:00 PM
From: Gersh Avery	Respond to of 94695

bearshark Re:"A normal market would be out of gas." Perhaps this is where the "gas" is coming from: Message 4382162 SHE was slender, middle aged and impeccably turned out in a Fendi suit and matching shoulder bag. She had with her a dark blue briefcase full of freshly printed 10,000 yen notes. As I watched she fed the entire contents of the case, bundle by crisp bundle, into the ATM machine outside Tokyo's Otemachi business district. After each press of the deposit button, there was a furious whirr and the machine would open and ask for more. This went on for some 20 minutes. She may have paid in $2 million dollars, or even $5 million that afternoon. It is hard to count a briefcase full of money while standing metres away in a queue of impatient Japanese. But one thing is certain, the woman was one of tens of thousands of jittery deposit holders who are frantically switching their personal savings - variously estimated at around $170,000 a household - from the nation's suspect Japanese banks into foreign banks, such as Citibank. continued in the above link.. DOW 10k in a week? Gersh