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To: Investor2 who wrote (5300)	5/23/1999 5:36:00 PM
From: marc ultra	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 15132

I2, I think now you may have freaked everybody out when Bob is off for Memorial Day weekend<g> Marc

To: Investor2 who wrote (5300)	5/24/1999 10:41:00 PM
From: Lars	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15132

* Market Summary * 5/21/99 5/14/99 %Change S&P 500 1,330.29 1,337.80 -.56% Dow Jones 10,829.28 10,913.32 -.77% NASD Comp 2,520.80 2,527.89 -.28% Russell 2000 449.14 443.13 +1.36% SOX Index 408.40 397.14 +2.84% Value Line 458.54 454.53 +.88% MS Growth 558.75 558.47 +.05% MS Cyclical 590.80 603.18 -2.05% T - Bill 4.46% 4.50% -4 BP Long Bond 5.77% 5.91% -14 BP Gold - Oz-Near Month $273.30 $276.20 -$2.90 Silver - Oz-Near Month $5.21 $5.39 -$.18 Housing Starts for April fell 10.1% to 1.57 million rate Housing Permits also drop - to 1.57 million Annualized Rate Federal Reserve Open Market Committee (FOMC) Meeting No Immediate Change In Interest Rates - But Adoption of Asymmetric Policy with Bias Toward Rate Increase First Quarter Productivity rose +4.0% - Excellent - Unit Labor Costs up +.3% and +1.3% year-over-year Jobless Claims drop to 299,000 from revised prior week - Four Week Moving Average drops -3,500 to 302,750 Trade Deficit for March increased to $19.7 billion versus Expectation of a decline - Imports rise with strong economy *Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank (FRB) Index of Current Activity eases to 21.1 in May from April's 26.4