Word: bullish
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...that it's a rally, exactly - even those modest gains were eroding as noon approached - but clearly something happened besides Alan Greenspan's bullish comments on free trade before the Senate (although a brief mention of the slowdown, with no bearish comments along with it, may have played a tiny part). TIME investing columnist Dan Kadlec has a few ideas...
Suddenly, the RIAA is bullish on online music...
Even tech-battered Wall Street analysts are bullish on handhelds. No matter that Palm, Handspring and the Canadian firm Research in Motion are trading at 52-week lows. "These stocks have gotten unnecessarily beaten down," argues Thomas Sepenzis, mobile-Internet analyst at investment bank CIBC. "When people stop panicking, they'll go, 'Oh, gee, what should I buy?' and these stocks will be some of the first to go back up." Within a year, he expects Palm shares to as much as quadruple from last week...
Investors wanted the stock so badly they bid it up to $239 in a day. Bullish analyst reports came in weeks later, and guess what? The stock fell steadily. It's now under $4. That pattern was not unusual. It suggests that the only thing investors were paying attention to was their dreams. And that's the best disguise of all, really. You tell yourself instant wealth makes sense; it's your turn to hit the lottery. But of course we can't all hit the lottery together. In the end a dream is exactly that, whether there...
Stats like that give bullish analysts plenty to talk about. "The economy will be picking up significantly by the fourth quarter," says Bruce Steinberg, chief economist at Merrill Lynch. "Corporate earnings should be picking up at the same time, and the stock market, because it looks to the future, is going to be going up well in advance of that. I really think sometime in the spring the market will turn around...