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Strategies & Market Trends : Cents and Sensibility - Kimberly and Friends' Consortium -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jeffrey L. Henken who wrote (6740)	6/2/1999 8:28:00 AM
From: Kimberly Lee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108040

Pre-open observations. (much input from Kevin Kennedy's report) GLOBEX PRICES AS OF 06/02/99 06:45 AM S&P 500 JUN99 1294.40 -120 NSDQ100 JUN99 2036.00 -150 Not much excitement here. We will need some more capitulation from the longs to bring in some buyers in the short term - yesterday's NAPM #'s were alarming, and the employment # on Friday will hold the key. Hong Kong +0.77%, Asia mixed; Germany -0.08%, Europe mixed. Nasdaq Yesterday 2412.03 -58.49 -2.37% Hi 2470.53 Lo 2411.97 Russell 2000 437.46 -1.22 -0.28% Hi 439.05 Lo 435.13 Advancers 1679 Decliners 2224 Unchanged 735 Vol 747 million (vs. 685 million Friday) New Highs 68 New Lows 40 Nasdaq pulls back as any rallies here are suspect. Market News INTC buys DLGC for $44/share. WCOM to meet with analysts in New York today. FGI, HLX merge. Yesterday's Top Breakout: SPSS SPSS Inc. SPSS broke out of a 10-week base on 733,000 shares, or 13x normal volume. It traded as high as 29 1/2 before settling back. The move came as SPSS denied rumors it is in talks to be acquired by Oracle or IBM, saying those companies are strategic partners. SPSS Inc. is a leader in business intelligence, especially data mining, as well as three vertical markets: survey/market research, quality improvement and scientific research.SPSS products and services transform organizations by helping users leverage information to improve processes that increase revenues and reduce costs.Today, more than 250,000 organizations use SPSS software to create and distribute information for better decision making.Founded in 1968, SPSS has been a leader in data analysis for more than three decades.SPSS has won the following awards: named No. 28 in DM Review's Data Warehouse Top 100; placed No. 23 on the 1999 Soft-letter 100, a ranking of the top 100 personal computer software companies in the United States; and No. 87 in the 1998 Software 500, a ranking of the world's largest software vendors by Software Magazine. Headquartered in Chicago, SPSS has offices and distributors around the world. For more information, visit www.spss.com. American Home Product (AHP) reports disappointing earnings after the bell yesterday, not a good sign. ADFC just lost their contract with GeoCities, which accounts for 19% ofADFC's revenues. Mark Haines and his associates have been subtly calling the CEO a liar as he downplayed the possibility of the contract loss only a week ago in Sq Box. Expecting significant haircut today in this issue