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To: Math Junkie who wrote (28394)	2/17/1999 5:39:00 PM
From: Jeffrey D	Respond to of 70976

Might be interesting to call in tomorrow and hear what Capt. Morgan has to say about this new Semi index. Jeff << NEW YORK, Feb. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI) will announce a global stock index Thursday morning during the second day of SEMInvest 99, a three-day international investor conference. Reporters are invited to attend the 8:00-8:30 a.m. Eastern time February 18 press briefing at the Plaza Hotel in New York City or call in via AT&T Teleconference. Those calling in will be able to ask questions, following a brief overview of the new stock index. Call-in numbers are as follows: 800-553-0272 (U.S.) or 612-288-0318 (international). Press briefing participants include: Stanley T. Myers, President of SEMI -- will briefly describe SEMI and discuss the rationale for the index. James C. Morgan, Chairman and CEO, Applied Materials, Inc. -- will provide acompany viewpoint of the new index. Applied, the largest SEMI member in the index, is the world's largest supplier of wafer fabrication systems and services to the global semiconductor industry. Bill Nichols, Vice President of Thomson Investor Network, a Thomson Financial Services company -- will demonstrate the new index. Thomson created the index and will maintain it. Byron Walker, equity analyst for Warburg Dillon Read -- will give a viewpoint from the investment community perspective. >>

To: Math Junkie who wrote (28394)	2/17/1999 11:06:00 PM
From: Skeeter Bug	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 70976

then don't use price to prove i'm wrong. we just have different perspectives. 11 cents doesn't impress me - and is in the range of what i expected. let's see, 44 cents annualized, times 20 = $8.80. ok, make some adjustments for potential growth and we get... well, you weren't talking price. 20 cents won't impress me. $1 will. wake me when we get there. IF we get there in the next couple years. i'm done debating here. i'll be back after it tanks, though. i had the dellheads attack me two weeks back for saying pc revs were negative in 1998 for the first time in history. dell was $105+ going to $120... ho ho ho ho! and they are still rude. just like some will be here...