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Gold/Mining/Energy : Ensco International Inc. (ESV) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Benchman who wrote (1760)	5/24/1999 4:56:00 PM
From: Razorbak	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2005

Bench: Sometimes upgrades are used as a vehicle to dump shares into the market. Cynical? Perhaps. True? Definitely! Razor

To: Benchman who wrote (1760)	5/24/1999 5:07:00 PM
From: Ram Seetharaman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2005

IT ONLY SHOWS THAT THE STREET DOESN'T THINK MUCH OF SMITH BARNEY OR "BLARNEY"!

To: Benchman who wrote (1760)	5/24/1999 6:20:00 PM
From: bc_mack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2005

Tell me about it. Texas Instruments announces a new licensing agreement in settlement of the Hyundai litigation. The agreement will bring in $1 billion over the next 10 years. Pru upgrades the stock. I manage to buy more before the stock goes up. Shortly thereafter . . . the stock tanks. No matter, both stocks (ESV and TXN) are great long-term stocks. These are just short-term fluctuations of fundamentally sound companies. We will be rewarded.