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- From: wbdst+@pitt.edu (William B Dwinnell)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: IBM CORPORATE LOSS
- Message-ID: <2616@blue.cis.pitt.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 13:46:48 GMT
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- You guys are missing a basic business point here. IBMs loss cannot simply
- be absorbed by its savings, as it will not be producing anything to
- make that money. This will hurt their SCF, and their stock would only
- fall further (to say nothing of their bond rating, over at Moody's).
- Plus, any money IBM has got stashed away would be put to better use
- than a savings account. If they have money out there, it would be
- invested, and investments tend to be less liquid than savings. They'd
- be able to get their hands on that money eventuaolly, but if I worked
- at IBM, I sure wouldn't like knowing that that was where my
- paycheck was coming from. Lastly, IBM's holding s are not its to just
- dole out when it doesn't make monyxxx money, they belong to the shareholders
- (and creditors have some claim on them too).
- No, I don't think IBM will go under tomorrow, and even a hurt IBM will
- outdo a lucky (hypothetical) Atari in the foreseeable future.
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