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To: nihil who wrote (76229)	11/3/1998 5:40:00 AM
From: Ken Beal	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176388

Hi nihil, I agree with you completely. I am currently in Dell stock and calls, and need to learn more about selling puts before attempting it. I was just wondering if there might be a correlation. And I'm serious -- I'm not joking when I say that, perhaps: the decision to invest in a certain area of the world by Dell, has a causal relationship with that area's economy improving. This is not to say that Dell causes that improvement. Dell may see that the improvement is imminent, and move swiftly to take advantage of it. But if Dell is the only company taking advantage of it, then either Dell has eyes that the rest of the industry doesn't, ... or Dell is actually improving the economies that it invests in. Either way, that's good for us shareholders. I was just looking for data to support that hypothesis. TigerPaw's reply agreed with it -- "they opened one in Ireland and peace broke out" -- LOL. Anyone know how many plants Dell has around the world? I think I can answer that, actually: "The company's computers are manufactured one at a time, as ordered, at facilities in Austin; Limerick, Ireland; Penang, Malaysia; and Xiamen, China." From the page dell.com -- it took me 2 minutes to find this after I typed in the question above. "You just have to know how to ask!" ;-) Or even better, as it specifies the regions they sell into: "The company manufactures its entire line of computer systems in each of four locations: Austin (Americas); Limerick, Ireland (Europe, Middle East and Africa); Penang, Malaysia (Asia-Pacific and Japan); and Xiamen, China (China)." From page dell.com . So at any rate, it wouldn't hurt to watch Dell's future factory investments to see if this pattern holds true. Cheers, KenB