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To: Derrick P. who wrote (18515)	9/26/1998 11:36:00 AM
From: Derrick P.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

Oh, BTW books.com works too. These sites are not as sophisticated as Amazon but if you threw another billion dollars into it... But then who would be silly enough to do that? (Only NZMA stock holders.) I mean you go over to amazon.com and ask yourself it that's worth $6 billion +. derrick

To: Derrick P. who wrote (18515)	9/26/1998 3:09:00 PM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

The question for investors is: ''Can you trust your analyst?'' Unfortunately, the answer is not very much. At the major Wall Street houses, which thrive on investment banking, every analyst has a potential conflict of interest. The ''Chinese Wall'' that on paper still separates a firm's analysts from its investment bankers continues to crumble as analysts are encouraged to scout deals. The analyst's firm is either the investment banker for a company he or she is covering--or it's wooing the company for a piece of that juicy revenue stream. A study co-authored by Georgia State University assistant professor Siva Nathan looked at reports on 250 companies by analysts whose firms had investment-banking ties with those companies and an equal number from analysts with no ties. The investment bankers' analysts had 6% higher earnings forecasts and nearly 25% more buy recommendations.