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I am so glad to see responses such as yours Neo.  Jean Jacques Chenier just doesn't get it.  It is attitudes such as his that have led to this problem in the first place.

[Bill Daniel]  -----Original Message-----
From: owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of neo
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 6:52 PM
To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: The day after.


  This is sickening.

  Why blame technology and America? Both are here to stay and will grow.

  The problem is the terrorists, the countries that help them, and the lack of a worldwide effort in counter terrorist activities.

  It is the US, it's technology, and it's taxpayers that have been the major peacekeeper of the world.

  Please place the blame where it belongs.

  neo

    -----Original Message-----
    From: owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Macromnt@xxxxxxx
    Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 2:28 PM
    To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
    Subject: The day after.


    Theday after. 

    While we mourn our friends, acquaintances and colleagues ourduty is to 
    understand what will be the impact of yesterday’s tragedy on thefinancial 
    markets. This major event could mark a shift away from America’sheavy 
    reliance on technology and have tremendous consequences on the wayAmerica 
    function on the way. 

    Firstly the failure of American intelligence is obvious. American 
    intelligence relies heavily on signals intelligence (SIGINT). Signals 
    intelligence includes any intelligence collected from intercepted 
    communications, such as microwave, landlines secret writing, or 
    electromagnetic emanations (e.g., foreign radar signals or telemetry from an 
    object of intelligence interest.)   This strategy has clearly shown its 
    limits in fighting terrorism, which is likely to be the war of the future.  

    Secondly, the “Star War” pet project of president Bush has been proved today 
    to be a dream that would be unable to protect the American population from 
    terrorists attacks. Again high tech and huge amount of taxpayers’ money is of 
    little help to fight determined terrorist. 
    Thirdly, we all go through metal detectors and X-Ray machines before boarding 
    aircrafts. Yet fanatics have been able to smuggle weapons in order to 
    highjack several airplanes. 
    As for the World Trade center itself, it may look as another failure of 
    technology. It was planned to stand a 707 crash. The fact that the World 
    Trade Center has been targeted twice is no coincidence. To gather so many 
    people in the same place was an accident waiting to happen. The fact that the 
    technology did exist to build it should not have been a reason good enough to 
    do it. Again there was a huge amount of money spent and a naive belief in 
    technology. Yesterday’s tragedy may lead the American people to reassess its 
    belief in technology.  A very possible consequence of yesterday’s horror may 
    be a continuous slide on the technology laden Nasdaq index. All the stock 
    indices will suffer, as whole sectors of the economy will be hurt: financial 
    services of course (some of them head-quartered in the World Trade Center, 
    other had their back offices), airlines, hotels etc. but the Nasdaq is likely 
    to suffer the most. In last week’s newsletter (see our web site 
    www.alterama.com) we were forecasting a drop of the S&P500 to 930, an 
    objective that we might reach sooner than we thought. As for the Nasdaq 100, 
    we reiterate the objective of 1,100 that we stated several times in 2001.  

    Jean Jacques Chenier 
    Alternative Asset Management, Inc. 
    Tel: 646 840 0385 
    E-mail: JChenier@xxxxxxxxxxxx