Wednesday, March 21, 2001 3:45 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Subject: But all is not gloom and doom for Oracle...
But all is not gloom and doom for Oracle. Excerpts from Chuck Phillips of
Morgan Stanley on the last quarter
It's useful to keep the quarter in perspec
Most certainly. A wise teacher once told me "believe only 1% of what you read
in the paper and 0.5% of what's on the news".
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Author: "Eric D. Pierce" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 3/21/2001 5:25 PM
Wait just a second, are you saying that
I don't know if I necessarily agree with that. What if their financial
report from the past 3 years shows a lot of growth. Well if you don't
investigate the company and find anything out about it, you could be
getting yourself into trouble. What if they just replaced mgmt and he/she's
a meat
Which is why, when you put all your eggs into that basket, you WATCH THAT BASKET!!!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/22/01 09:45AM
I don't know if I necessarily agree with that. What if their financial
report from the past 3 years shows a lot of growth. Well if you don't
investigate the company and
Good points.
The only thing I know about (as a non-expert) that might be worth
adding is that that there are some people in the "legitimate"
investment sector that supposedly ran some extremely unethical (and
large scale) "pump-and-dump" type operations (short sales, and so
forth) on
It's all "accounting" and "Wall street analysts". Most accountants I know can't
keep their own check books balanced and I've got an old class mate down in a
wallstreet brokerage. He does petrochemical companies. What I don't understand
is how he got the job as he flunked chemistry in HS, and I
Wait just a second, are you saying that "the press" (or, if
you prefer "journalistic corporate media") might be
sensationalizing things about the "bad economy" just to get
keep their readership/viewer levels high?
GASP! :)
We aren't that full of cr*p in this country, are we? :)
