Forum Archive Index - February 2000

["Osbert Sun" <osbert.sun@xtra.co.nz>]

Sorry hugh, my mistake! A good place to check the tick code on US market is
at (http://finance.yahoo.com). Just go in from the symbol lookup beside the
Get Quotes window and follow the instruction from there on.

Regards,

Osbert

----- Original Message -----
From: "hugh webber" <hugh.webber@clear.net.nz>
To: <sharechat@sharechat.co.nz>
Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2000 8:47 PM
Subject: [sharechat] The US ticker quote for Telecom is NZT


> and by my calculations it finished at $NZ9.17 on Friday night.
> Not bad at holding value in a US mini crash.
> So Osbert, it ain't TEL its NZT and its rather painful finding the
> right code - only a search on ZEAL got me there.
> But as Osbert says divide the quote by 8 (8 TCM's = 1 NZT ADR)
> and then divide by .4914 - the quote in Saturday's Press for the NZ $
> in US currency.
>
> Anyway, good luck with your competition guys, I hope the week's
> market is up.
> You know my position: what counts is the fundamentals and their
> changes. The short term price itself is irrelevant and merely an
> obscuring veil over real value. It goes down, so what, buy some more.
> It goes up - is there a better bargain? have I made a decent profit?
> Have I held long enough to get the real value increase I was looking
> for? Does the price matter at all if I'm one of the 20% who invest for tax
> free dividends?
>
> cheers,
> Hugh
>
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