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...help marveling at Merrill Lynch star Internet analyst Henry Blodget. Bullish through a five-month bloodletting, he decided last week to downgrade his opinion on 11 onetime highflyers, including Doubleclick, eBay and eToys. In the case of eToys, the stock had dropped 95%. Losing any more, I suppose, would be just too much to bear. So Blodget stepped up with his gutsy downgrade while investors everywhere, in spirit, collectively asked, Who needs analysts anyway...
With such access, maybe next time Blodget or another analyst signals a sell, you'll have taken that action long ago--and be poised to scoop up a bargain...
...friend canceled--for the Redskins' first playoff game in seven years--Lynn knew it was not just something, but really something. In downtown Manhattan early Monday, the 7:30 a.m. daily research call emanating from the fifth-floor conference room of Merrill Lynch headquarters was handled by analysts Henry Blodget and Jessica Reif Cohen. Traders who had nearly run off the road when they had heard the news on their car radios crammed the room; 1,000 more around the world were connected by telephone. Like everyone else on Wall Street, Blodget and Reif Cohen had been taken totally...
...stock began to move too, propelling Bezos' personal wealth into the tens of millions, then into the hundreds of millions. And then, when analyst Henry Blodget, now with Merrill Lynch, said he believed Amazon was a $400-a-share company, Bezos became another Rockefeller. As of last week, his shares were worth $10.5 billion...
...least through 1999. Bezos insists that focusing on profits during this growth phase would be a "strategic mistake." Amazon's proponents believe market share is what matters, and the company will reap its earnings rewards when online buying heats up and its marketing blitz cools down. Says Henry Blodget, an analyst with CIBC Oppenheimer: "They are investing money, not 'losing' money...