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...world's biggest what? Amazon.com announced today that it's buying 35 percent of Homegrocer.com, a Seattle-area online grocer with national plans. The $42.5 million-dollar investment is just the latest splash in an ongoing wave of expansion plans that include eBay-style auctions, Pets.com and a web pharmacy called Drugstore.com...
This remarkable shift came without warning, and is a clear illustration of why you should spread your stock bets over many industries. There's just no telling when a group will come into favor, and the biggest payday is reserved for those who are in the stocks before they start to move...
...profitable tech companies remain solid long-term holdings. But if you must lighten up on tech to broaden your portfolio, do it. Companies that build tractors, equipment, highways and skyscrapers--left for dead until a few weeks ago--may be in favor for a year or longer. The biggest cyclical names, like Caterpillar, International Paper and DuPont, have already had huge moves but probably still have room to run. Consider also an investment in a Wilshire 5000 or Russell 2000 stock-index fund. Both have a heavy slug of small- and middle-size basic-industry companies, which tend to rally...
...swap music online--piracy, the record companies charge. Yet millions do it, despite the irritating download wait of 10 min. or so per song--an annoyance that will disappear when we all get high-speed Net access. MP3 phobia is so great among record companies that Universal Records, the biggest, bolted from the pack last week and announced that it will be backing a competing standard to protect and sell online music by the end of the year...
...probably didn't help the record companies' cause that just two days before the Universal announcement, RealNetworks launched its JukeBox. RealNetworks is the biggest name in online audio (and video), bigger even than Microsoft. When it declared that JukeBox would embrace the MP3 format--allowing users to effortlessly encode their CDs in it--it was clear to me the gig was up. And to a lot of other folks too. More than 350,000 people downloaded the JukeBox software in 2 1/2 days, the fastest online "uptake" on record...