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Technology Stocks : General Instrument Corp.'98 (GIC) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Marc who wrote (488)	12/16/1998 8:05:00 AM
From: louis mason	Respond to of 615

OK, National Pubic Radio (NPR) just announced the PHG/GIC merger talks. This could go higher throughout the week with all of this publicity. Actually I was recently looking into buying PHG stock myself because I saw some recent film footage from Japan and all of the HD TV's that I saw were made by PHG! So, this merger would actually fit my game plan in a strange way. Now what to do? Normally I would sell on the merger news, but I actually like both companies in this deal & maybe this would be a good way to acquire PHG by just holding onto GIC throughout the talks. PHG is a large, stable company that has it's foot in on HDTV bigtime as far as I can tell. Any other long-range planners here? lmason