Word: bearishness
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...Newseum in New York. Featured speakers were leading lights from the New York Times and thestreet.com, counterbalanced by a mutual fund guru and a Yale economist. Everyone agreed on the easy part: Business news has never been better business. But there was fear in the air -- even the most bearish press coverage has had little effect on the individual investor's buy-now-and-hold-forever ethos that has fed the current seven-year bull market. Everybody listens, but no one ever sells. Which poses the big questions: If and when a crash starts, what should the press say? Which...
...making it," Kadlec says. "Yahoo is riding a mania for Internet stocks, just like the mania for biotech in 1991. These stocks have so much room to collapse." Indeed, in announcing only a 2-for-1 split Wednesday (effective in August), Yahoo might be signaling that it knows some bearish days are coming. Notes Kadlec: "A $200 stock price means Yahoo should split 4-for-1 to make it cheaper for small investors. Two-for-1 leaves the price too high for that at $100 -- they're expecting to lose some value, and they're playing it safe." Come August...
...brokers who actually thought Biggs might be bullish, the big shots who dialed in got a dose of fear that would have chilled Roosevelt in '32. Biggs, it seems, had just come back from the Far East, and he was terrified by what he saw. He invoked all the bearish icons: the Great Depression, the Crash of '29 (I guess '87 seemed too benign), 40%-to-50% declines ahead in emerging markets, and, of course, the long-awaited great bear market in the U.S. Sure, he threw in a couple of caveats, but the tone was all scare. You could...
...ever. Along with interest-rate fears, Kadlec says, are growing worries that reports on first-quarter corporate profits will be weak. Those will be out in a few weeks. Seeing such a string of potholes on the road ahead makes Kadlec think Wall Street could be headed for a bearish spring. "Even going beyond the Dow, half of all stocks are down at least 20 percent from their highs for the year. That reveals a lot more damage than even the Dow is showing...
...emotionally naked as a daytime talk-show guest, baring his soul and searching for empathy. You hear his need. In fact, it comes as something of a surprise to find that in person, the 31-year-old Duritz is sturdier looking than he sounds. North of 6 ft. and bearish in his build, he unexpectedly fills the door frame when welcoming a visitor. But when he sits down and starts to talk, in a rare interview, the vulnerability quivers in the air. "If you're a person who has difficulty relating to people and if you're not completely happy...