From: Peter Saxton 
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Subject: Re: Stockpicks for 2004
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 15:38:27 +0000

On Thu, 25 Dec 2003 15:18:40 -0000, "Scooby Doo"
 wrote:

>
>"tim" <520061495900.removethis@t-online.de> wrote in message
>news:bselmm$6jv$05$1@news.t-online.com...
>>
>> "Scooby Doo"  wrote in message
>> news:bsehn5$ce7m3$1@ID-171358.news.uni-berlin.de...
>> > Have any of the papers published their stockpicks for next year?
>>
>> Why?  Are they any more likely to be better than using a pin?
>>
>> 4 years ago one recommeneded Marconi.  I've shall never follow
>> a broker recommendation again.
>>
>> tim
>
>I agree, and I do take it with a huge pinch of salt, but nonetheless if =
most
>people do take the broker recommendation on board then the price will =
rise
>simply as a result of supply and demand.
>
Are you talking about newspapers or brokers?

Not if they take the recommendation on board in such a way to reflect
the crookedness or incompetence of most City people.


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Peter Saxton from London
peter@petersaxton.co.uk