MacroWorld Portfolio Review: 12/13/2000
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06:38 pm est
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Profit warnings took their toll on the tech sector, sending
Nasdaq down triple digits in late trading.  Blue Chips pared
their gains and finished little changed in the wake of the
Supreme Court decision that''ll put an end to the 5-wk long
presidential deadlock.

Economic reports:Retail Sales in
Nov dipped 0.4% after a 0.1% rise in Oct - weaker than expected.
Excluding auto, sales were down 0.2%;Import Prices in Nov
increased by 0.2% after a 0.5% dip in Oct.

Compaq warns
that it expects to miss analysts'' expectations for the 4th
qtr due to lower home PC sales .

Whirlpool
warns its earnings will fall short of expectations and says
it will cut 6,300 jobs.

General Mills reports
qtly earnings of $0.70/shr, topping Street expectations by
2 cents.

Amgen plans to buy back up to $2 bil of its outstanding
shares.

Microsoft selects Electronic Arts
to develop games for the Xbox video game system .


Merck boldly predicts its experimental AIDS vaccine
will prove effective .

Markets overseas are
mixed. The London FTSE is up 0.20%, the Frankfurt DAX is
down 1.76%, and the Paris CAC40 is down 1.41%. Tokyo''s Nikkei
closed up 0.36%, Hong Kong''s Hang Seng closed up 1.91%,
and Sydney''s All Ordinaries closed down 0.45%.

Economic
calendar:
Thu: Jobless Claims, Business Inventories;
Fri:
CPI, Industrial Production.


Market Segments
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DJ Industrials   10,794.4       26.2
S&P 500           1,360.0      -11.2
NY Composite        653.3       -1.7
ASE Composite       880.0       -0.8
NASDAQ Compsite   2,822.8     -109.0

Capital Sectors   %Change
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Large Cap            -1.0%
Mid Cap              -1.4%
Small Cap            -0.7%

Market Volumes (millions of shares)
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NYSE: 1,181.4
NASDAQ: 2,022.7

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(Enter market when Index >67, Exit when Index <33)



Latest Reading:

12/12/2000 4PM of 47.7, staying in the market (S&P=1371.2, +43.8%)


Previous Signal:
Entered market 12/29/1997 on index of 74.7 (S&P=953.4)


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Footnote to Tables:

(1) To view the individual analyst ratings for any
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(2) The Day's Volume as a percentage of the 90 day average.
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