RE: [Leica] Something BIG is happening

["B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

Oh, God! No! Not that!! Not a company with deeeeeeeep pockets, cutting edge 
technology, and world-class marketing know-how and pro-support!!! Wouldn't 
that be horrible?


At 12:07 PM 1/21/00 -0800, you wrote:
>Hey maybe Canon bought them!!! ;-)
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Bill Erfurth [mailto:m6rf@yahoo.com]
>Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2000 4:53 PM
>To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>Subject: [Leica] Something BIG is happening
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>Hi Gang,
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>Last week I wrote that I had received a piece of
>information (from an un-named reliable source) that
>made me think that something was about to happen at
>Leica.
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>Well, Leica's stock price is up over 40% in the past
>few days.  The price of the stock in Euros has gone
>from a low 7.10 to close at 10.10 today.  This from a
>company who's stock has generally traded BELOW it's 38
>day average for the past 6 or 7 months.
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>I do not know for sure what is happening.  I have
>checked sources in Europe and have come up with
>nothing.  But, you don't get a move like that in a
>company's stock for no reason.
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>If I were to guess, I would say that Leica has been
>bought out by or merged into another company, or a
>change in top management is about to occur.
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>The other reason for the big jump in the stock price
>could be that someone has figured out a way to get rid
>of that warehouse full of R8s.  Just kidding.
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>If anyone knows something and wants to share it with
>the group, but doesn't want to post it themselves, you
>can e-mail it to me at m6rf@yahoo.com.  You will be
>identified only as a "reliable un-named source".
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>Kind regards,
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>Bill
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