Frank, don't spoil things for Tom by bringing in facts. Tom is an artist. He wants emotion.
John On Wed, 08 Nov 2006 19:38:05 -0000, frank theriault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/8/06, Tom C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> How devoid of facts was the Bloomberg article? > > "first half net income beat the company's forecast on > higher-than-expected sales of digital cameras, led by more profitable > single-lens reflex models." > > That's a fact. > > "The stock climbed 8.5 percent to 565 yen as of 2:32 p.m. in Tokyo, > compared with a 0.3 percent advance on the Nikkei 225 Stock Average" > > That's a fact. > > "Our digital cameras are selling well, especially the high- margin > digital SLR," > > That's a fact. > > "Net income was 1.09 billion yen ($9.3 million) in the six months > ended Sept. 30, the company said today in a statement to the Tokyo > Stock Exchange, compared with the Oct. 20 forecast for 900 million yen > and a 330 million yen loss a year earlier." > > Yet again, more facts. > > "The company also raised its forecast for annual net income to 3.3 > billion yen from the previous estimate of 3.1 billion yen and 805 > million yen a year earlier." > > Okay, that's not a fact. That's a forecast. > > Am I missing something, Tom? There's pretty much nothing but facts in > there. Except for a (very clearly labelled) forecast. > > Perhaps what you're looking for is analysis, explanation, authority. > But without those things, the facts are what they are. Like all > facts, they may be proven wrong with better and other evidence. But, > absent such contrary evidence, they are what they are, IMHO. > > cheers, > frank > > > > > > -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
