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John Stephenson Calpine Corp CPN-N DON'T BUY Nov 24, 2004

Not a fan. Have done a lot of things right over the last year giving them about $2.5 billion of liquidity at year's end. Concerned with how they will finance their gas plants they are building. Margins will come under pressure.
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