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To: esecurities(tm) who wrote (1621)	12/5/1998 3:00:00 PM
From: esecurities(tm)	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5102

Bloomberg, DBCC and MKTW? "For almost two decades...Bloomberg has prevailed...to cater to traders-who measure the shelf life of news in seconds-he built one of the most bloodthirsty newsrooms around...But now Bloomberg faces what could be his biggest challenger: the Internet...But what's more worrisome for the incumbents is the prospect of the Internet diluting the value of their data...eventually the net sites will start to catch up. (Already sites like CBS MarketWatch provide real-time news of their own.) When that happens, Bloomberg is in trouble...And how's Bloomberg handling the Net? Pretty much ignoring it...it's not hard to envision a day when Bloomberg's terminals could become dispensable. 'It's abundantly clear that the Internet will change the model of proprietary-data businesses', says Kevin Werbach, managing editor Review 1.0 newsletter...when it comes time for Bloomberg to expand his online business and defend his niche, it just might be too late to catch the front-runners..." source: © copyright October 12, 1998 "Why the Net Could Be Bad News For Bloomberg" FORTUNE accordingly?...Bloomberg simply must? be looking very hard at (NASDAQ:DBCC) dbc.com and their 75% market share of real-time internet quotes...in addition to DBCs 50% [pre-IPO] interest in (NASDAQ:MKTW); IFN; CMS, StockEdge, BondEdge, InSite, Smart-Edgar, Signal Online, Federal News Service,.. Bloomberg may just be daytrading [playing amateur day-traders like a violin whom are unwittingly/contemporaneously providing liquidity to Bloomberg's traders?] his way in to DBCC while daytraders are schizophrenically speculating in DBCC as a way to get into the MKTW IPO yet merely providing affordable/shareholder value entry points for Bloomberg's and or The Street's traders to accumulate substantive positions? as the handwriting appears to be on the wall...

To: esecurities(tm) who wrote (1621)	12/6/1998 10:09:00 PM
From: esecurities(tm)	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 5102

IPO VIEW-More hot deals seen after watershed week NEW YORK, Dec 6 (Reuters) - After one of the strongest weeks for new issues in a while, underwriters are expected to roll out many potentially hot deals to get in on a market that has bounced back from its worst slump in years. This week, five Internet companies are scheduled to go public, and following a pattern in cyber-offerings, nearly all are expected to soar. And in what is set to be the last giant offering of 1998, CBS Corp.'s (NYSE:CBS - news) radio unit Infinity Broadcasting Corp. is slated to hit the market in a deal designed to raise between $2.565 and $2.97 billion -- one of the biggest U.S. IPOs ever. ''Infinity is certainly a good deal in good shape, but it's not the deal of the week by any far stretch of the imagination,'' said John Fitzgibbon, editor of the IPO Reporter newsletter. ''The play in town is Internet, Internet, Internet.'' The five Internet companies expected this week are Xoom.com (XOOM - news), AboveNet Comm (ABOV - news), Exchange Applications (EXAP - news), Internet America (OTC BB:PUNK - news), and Infospace.Com (INSP - news). Next week, Audiohighway.com (AHWY - news) will debut. Indeed, the sizzle in this past week's IPO market came from two Internet start-ups, Ticketmaster Online CitySearch Inc. (Nasdaq:TMCS - news) and uBid Inc. (Nasdaq:UBID - news). Both joined the ranks of high-flying cyberstocks, posting gains of over 200 percent after their IPOs..." © copyright December 6, 1998 Reuters By Holly Rosenkrantz biz.yahoo.com ...wherefore art thou marketwatch?...did the Co-CEOs' friends [and trader's] on wall street [convince] them to IPO/formally announce after Dec 18th?...triple witching and 5000+ call option open contracts expire...by coincidence?...IPO should have been anytime since the recent Nov 27 [S-1/A] pricing and appx. Dec 17? ...at the latest? [one day before option expiration] ref Message 6572032 and reply-1538...esp. given this uniquely exigent climate...