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To: James F. Hopkins who wrote (24016)	8/12/1998 6:48:00 AM
From: flickerful	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 94695

offtopic....ahoy jim. i will have you know i have been reading your posts with pleasure for some time. it's long overdue for me to say hello & how good it is to see you. trading with stealth on oex, randy

To: James F. Hopkins who wrote (24016)	8/12/1998 7:51:00 AM
From: yard_man	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 94695

James it is also nice to know which webs are "free." This means that the shares can actually be converted to the underlying holdings in proportion and sold. In theory this should keep the web from tradin at much of a premium or discount to the holdings. I know EWM is one such "free" web. They are in the minority. As I have watched the price of this one -- I don't think that the "free" aspect has competely eliminated discounts/premiums, but that is what it was meant to do, I think. Certainly they do track better than say a closed-end fund which often sell at premiums when a market is getting hammered.

To: James F. Hopkins who wrote (24016)	8/12/1998 7:58:00 AM
From: Moominoid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 94695

Jim: I noticed that all the webs were down much more than the indices themselves yesterday. I looked at some charts over different time periods. All are not very liquid with the exception of Japan. I was surprised how un-liquid UK was given that it is the World's #2 stock-market now. Obviously traders on Amex aren't interested. Australia was very illiquid - only 2 or 3 trades a day. It clearly isn't the All Ordinaries Index - is it an MSCI index? Same for the others? David