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To: Technopeasant who wrote (19258)	8/11/1998 10:14:00 PM
From: James Strauss	Respond to of 50167

Tech: The rapid flow and availability of information has compressed market reaction times... That's why the crash of 87 was almost over right after it began... When something happens anywhere in the world everyone knows about it almost instantly... The use of the internet has plugged in the small investor to the vast information stream heretofore available to the institutions and chosen few... As such, there is more of a piling on to good news and bad news events that can create high and low market climax spikes... But, sometimes too much information causes confusion, and can mask the real nuggets of truth hidden in there among the sea of data... In the end, it boils down to interest rates, inflation rates, and earnings growth rates... Everything else is just background noise... Jim