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-- pam (jpjgood@penn.com), March 12, 2000

Answers

Sunday, March 12, 2000 08:01 PM ET

NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Tokyo stocks were more than 1% lower at midday Monday after Japan reported a larger-than-expected contraction in the Japanese economy in October through December. The dollar was slightly lower against the yen in Asian trading while Hong Kong shares opened almost 2% lower.

In Tokyo, the blue-chip Nikkei 225 index was down 298.91 points, or 1.5%, at 19451.49, erasing some of Friday's 88.07-point gain.

-- Uncle Bob (unclb0b@aol.com), March 12, 2000.

Taiwan down 617 pt. / Japan 545 pt. / Hong Kong 440 pts as of 11.20 PM

-- mark keith (mark5call@aol.com), March 12, 2000.

Globex futures are not happy either::

http://www.cme.com/cgi-bin/gflash.cgi

But it is NOT Y2K or Oil, it is a CORRECTION!

-- Helium (HeliumAvid@yahoo.com), March 12, 2000.

Hum........ Will be watching our open in the AM!

-- suzy (suzy@nowhere.com), March 13, 2000.

Lets see, how many times has the stock market been going to crash since January 1st? Do you think this week might be the BIG one you've all been hoping for?

-- Jim Cooke (JJCooke@yahoo.com), March 13, 2000.

Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong Stock Markets Plummet:

Asia/Pacific

Hong Kong Hang Seng ^HSI Mar 13 17301.37 -530.49 -2.97% Chart , News

Japan Nikkei 225 ^N225 12:45AM 19155.09 -595.31 -3.01% Chart , News

Taiwan Taiwan Weighted ^TWII Mar 13 8811.95 -617.65 -6.55% Chart , News

Rest of Asian/Pacific Markets

Australia All Ordinaries ^AORD 12:31AM 3190.3 -9.2 -0.29% Chart , News

China Shanghai Composite ^SSEC 1:05AM 1714.336 +9.287 +0.54% Chart

Malaysia KLSE Composite ^KLSE Mar 13 945.47 -2.62 -0.28% Chart , News

New Zealand NZSE 40 ^NZ40 Mar 13 2009.27 -11.47 -0.57% Chart

Pakistan Karachi 100 ^KSE 1:05AM 1940.20 +3.23 +0.17% Chart

Philippines PSE Composite ^PSI Mar 13 1602.96 -18.66 -1.15% Chart , News

Singapore Straits Times ^STI 1:01AM 2055.14 -41.10 -1.96% Chart , News

South Korea Seoul Composite ^KS11 1:01AM 854.66 -36.70 -4.12% Chart , News

Sri Lanka All Share ^CSE 1:05AM 515.05 -6.45 -1.24% Chart

Thailand SET ^SETI 12:31AM 394.14 -8.26 -2.05% Chart , News

http://quote.yahoo.com/m2?u

-- Carl Jenkins (Somewherepress@aol.com), March 13, 2000.

To Jim Cooke:

Well Jim, maybe you would "get off" on a stock market crash, but frankly it doesn't make my day. I do however love watching the market and trying to figure out which way its going.

-- suzy (suzy@nowhere.com), March 13, 2000.

Hey Jim,

I don't think many here want to see the market to crash, or see oil go sky high. But let's face it, both are happening. Y2K related? Who knows. The laywers sure aren't going to tell us.

Just another day in the year 2000 I guess... <:)=

-- Sysman (y2kboard@yahoo.com), March 13, 2000.

Right - no one wants to see the market crash. That's why there are ALWAYS posts whenever the market is down and NEVER posts when the market is up. There are people who want a market crash for any number of reasons and they post here.

-- Jim Cooke (JJCooke@yahoo.com), March 13, 2000.

How about you Jim? What do you want to see happen? Maybe you would be kind enough to post market "UPS" for us.

-- suzy (suzy@nowhere.com), March 13, 2000.

Suzy:

I don't "want" to see anything happen. The markets don't care what I want. They continue to operate on a combination of economics, psychology, and hot air, just as they always have.

I need to invest my money and, right now, the stock market is the only place I can make a decent return. I watch the markets and hope I can see bad things coming before they happen but, from my past history, I probably won't. Every market downturn is not a crash and those who continue this type of breathless posting are not helping anyone.

-- Jim Cooke (JJCooke@yahoo.com), March 14, 2000.

Joseph P. Kennedy (patriarch of the clan) is said to have completely cashed out of the stock market in the Summer of 1929 when he started getting stock tips from his shoeshine boy. Notice: he got out in the summer, not Fall. "Better two months too early than one month too late." YMMV.

-- DeeEmBee (macbeth1@pacbell.net), March 14, 2000.