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Non-Tech : Tulipomania Blowoff Contest: Why and When will it end? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ScrapCollector who wrote (1357)	4/22/1999 1:20:00 PM
From: memflyken2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3543

Thanks for pointing that out, scrap: that April 27th is indeed aol's earnings report date. I'd kept that in mind when picking the 28th, but you get credit for the reason if that's it; maybe we can go out and have a fine dinner together... Of course, aol could blow thru earnings estimates with the kind of financial skulduggery that YHOO used to make its 1Q look presentable (playing the intangible assets card). And in this wacko environment, no one cares. Hi-ho Silver, away! But having said that... don't you think that the timing (today) of Sprint's announcement that it's dumping its 3% stake in aol (28 million shares, I think) is just a tad suspicious. Didn't notice when the effective date was; it's probably after the 28th, but... Coincidence? Six days before the earnings are released? In the good old days, when hard news moved markets, and soft news was treated as the worthless slush it is, I might say there was a connection. But today? When the world not only believes the moon is made of cream cheese, but is willing to line up to buy slices? I guess we'll know next week... Let's wish ourselves well, scrap; somebody has to get lucky and pluck auric's golden ring.

To: ScrapCollector who wrote (1357)	4/22/1999 5:02:00 PM
From: The Duke of URL©	Respond to of 3543

>>AOL can always cook the books to meet or exceed expectations this quarter, or come up with an excuse<< They have deferred all the expenses of mailing out 47 billion AOL discs, they structured the extra 9.5 Billion that the Netscape acquisition air cost them as "pooling-of-interests", so that they wouldn't have to write off the 9.5 billion, I assume they did the same with the Compuserve acquisitition. WHAT ELSE IS THERE IN THE CUBBARD TO COOK? :) Maybe they should now merge with Ultra SlimFast. Duke