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Online Stock Market Trading Top California officials on Wednesday deplored disclosures that a company run by H. Ross Perot provided energy traders with a blueprint for manipulating the state's electricity market, and Gov. Gray Davis called on the federal government to investigate. "If true, this is an ethical violation of the highest order and quite possibly a criminal offense," Davis said in calling on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to investigate the allegations against Perot Systems Corp.

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Stock Investing Course The company helped develop the computer systems used to track California electricity trading, and then peddled a detailed presentation to energy companies on ways to "game" the state's power market, newly released documents show. Perot Systems officials on Wednesday denied any wrongdoing.

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Stock Market Game The blueprint outlined a number of "strategic decisions" that companies could make to maximize profits. It said Perot Systems had "discovered a hole" in state protocols and provided specific examples of how to exploit it to increase power prices.

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Stock Market News A state Senate committee investigating whether companies manipulated the market during last year's crisis obtained the blueprint from Reliant Energy. Lawyers for the Houston-based company said Perot Systems made the same sales pitch to other firms selling power in California.

Stock Investing Basics California lawmakers said they were stunned by the 44-page presentation, a series of computer graphics that provided a primer on the state's deregulated electricity market and then illustrated ways to exploit it to raise power prices.

Stock Investing Software An industry consultant testifying before the Senate committee Wednesday likened it to "handing grade-school children loaded revolvers," and concluded that power traders armed with such information would clearly have put the schemes to use.

Stock Market Trading "This is corporate behavior at its despicable worst," said state Sen. Joseph Dunn (D-Santa Ana), the lawmaker leading the inquiry, adding that it appeared that Perot's firm might have played a role in the "economic rape of California."

Stock Investing For Dummy In a statement, the Plano, Texas-based firm said it had not provided any confidential information to Reliant or anyone else and had in fact "actively alerted" two energy-market oversight bodies about "defects in market rules" already adopted by the state.

Stock Market Crash Perot Systems spokesman Eddie Reeves said the company is internally investigating why the document was produced, and added that earlier this year the firm shut down the energy consulting arm that apparently put it together.

Stock Investing Tip "We're trying to find out who exactly produced it, to whom they presented it, when, what the context was and what the goal was," Reeves said. "Integrity is our bread and butter, and that's why we want to get to the bottom of this."

Stock Market Chart Perot, the former presidential candidate who serves as the company's chairman, also telephoned Dunn on Wednesday morning, the senator said, and assured him that the firm would place "absolutely no obstacles of any kind" before California investigators. He then offered to testify--an offer that state lawmakers appear inclined to accept.

Online Stock Investing "Perot Systems itself is going to have to account for this," said Dunn, who has concluded that the rolling blackouts that darkened much of the state last year were the result of improper business conduct and could have been avoided.

Stock Market Crash Of Perot could not be reached for comment Wednesday. Perot Systems' stock price fell $3.43 per share, or about 19%, to close at $14.55 on the New York Stock Exchange. The plunge wiped out about $364 million of the firm's market value.

Stock Investing For Beginner The company was hired in 1997 to help set up the computer systems for the California Power Exchange, the body that was supposed to be the state's primary power market but that went out of business last year during the height of the energy crisis, and the California Independent System Operator.

Finance Journal Personal Cal-ISO handles real-time electricity trades and manages the power grid for most of the state.

Stock Market Report Perot Systems was one of three firms hired by Cal-ISO as part of a $57-million contract to establish its computer system, according to the agency, which said its relationship with the company ended in 1998. Cal-ISO was not immediately sure how much of the money Perot Systems received. The firm also entered into a $35-million information technology services agreement with the Power Exchange in 2000. It was not clear Wednesday how much Perot Systems was paid to set up the computer system for the exchange.

Finance Investing Stock Market Cal-ISO officials on Wednesday reviewed the Perot Systems blueprint and concluded that it did not contain any confidential information, said spokesman Gregg Fishman.

Wall Street Journal Com "There isn't anything that anyone with some knowledge and know-how of the energy business couldn't have figured out for themselves," he said.

Stock Market Investing Advice Lawmakers, however, raised a number of questions Wednesday about the ramifications of the blueprint. Among them, said Dunn and state Sen. Debra Bowen (D-Marina del Rey), was whether the members of the Cal-ISO board, who include energy company representatives and other so-called stakeholders in the market, had learned about the loopholes outlined in the Perot Systems document.

Street Trader Wall Though it was largely overshadowed by the Perot Systems revelation, state lawmakers also heard testimony Wednesday from an industry consultant who suggested that some of the state's municipal utilities should have known--and may well have known--that Enron and other power companies were possibly engaging in questionable business practices.

Indian Stock Market Robert McCullough, a former utility executive who runs an Oregon consulting firm, said the state's utilities should have suspected that something was wrong when power companies such as Enron were offering to split profits with them--in some cases 50-50--for the right to their capacity on power lines, and were then sending little or no power.

Stock Investing Advice Some of Enron's ploys were specifically tailored to employ the municipal utilities--including one dubbed "Red Congo" that used a portion of the Redding utility's transmission line, he said, citing new documents obtained by the state.

Free Journal Street Wall Glendale's municipal utility recently announced that it was investigating whether it unwittingly took part in some of Enron's schemes by participating in similar arrangements.

Stock Market Information But McCullough said at least one municipal entity, the Northern California Power Agency, appears to have known something was afoot, citing a document that showed it was "aggressively" marketing use of its lines to Enron and to Williams, an Oklahoma-based energy company, for a 50% cut of profits.

Penny Stock Investing A lobbyist for the agency, John Fistolera, disputed McCullough's accusation, saying his client was simply trying to make the best use of its assets, and had actually thought it was helping relieve power shortages during the energy crunch.

Stock Market Stock By Miguel Bustillo and Nancy Rivera Brooks
Los Angeles Times - 6/6/2002

Topic: Energy

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