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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (55419)	4/9/1999 7:27:00 PM
From: eddie r gammon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

HO HO HO HO HO HO I just had to log back on. I know you guys are already talking about but I have not read any post. CPQ s**t in their hat (g). I just saw Moneyline with Lou (liberal) Dobbs and he said it was BAD. He had bugged eyed Ron Hill with Brown Bros on and he said it was a disaster (g)> Now let me go see what all you guys take on it is (g) erg

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (55419)	4/10/1999 1:07:00 PM
From: re3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Hi Michael, you probably have a lot of posts to read...congrats on cpq... I reviewed the buy abx and sell calls vs sell abx puts and suggest this... IF abx tanks , you are really handcuffed either way...but, if you sell the puts, your money earns more in interest waiting for the expiry than it would from the abx dividend... I took one example of abx at 25.20 with a July 25 put and call, the financial impact looks the same to me, except, that you get a higher interest rate on cash as I mentioned and the # of transactions may be less if you sold the put and didn't have to exercise, vs buying stock, selling a call and selling the stock once called... Kapish ? Howard