Word: bulls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...best things about being really rich must be how easy it is to get even richer. And this means not the odd $5,000 that earns a cool 18% a year on the eternal bull market (though we're not complaining, either, Mr. Greenspan) but the odd $5 million that returns 18% in four hours in the latest initial public offering (IPO)--as long as you're loaded enough to get offered such a deal in the first place...
Harvard's endowment and HMC's returns rose on the wave of the bull market. From June '96 to June '97 (Harvard's fiscal year), the Standard & Poor's 500-a measure of domestic equity performance-rose 34.7 percent...
Only in the digital age can an outfit go from worst to first so quickly. In the past 24 months, AOL has dodged everything from a Bill Gates bull rush (his Microsoft Network spent millions to compete with AOL) to a tussle with the Internet, whose wide-open spaces threatened to make AOL's narrower "gated community" irrelevant. Case, 39, has been famously (if inadvertently) self-destructive, infuriating AOL members by offering too little capacity and too many headaches. Overeager users have crashed parts of the service twice in the past year by bombarding it with more calls than computers...
...clusters have overwhelmingly been closer to the start than the end of long rallies. "It's a wives' tale that this volatility is a precursor of some negative move," Shaw says. A streak of volatile prices last occurred late in 1990, which was the start of the current bull market. Clusters also occurred near the start of bull markets in '82, '74, '70, '66, '62 and '50. Clusters occurred near market tops in '80 and '73. And the '87 crash? Gotcha coming and going: one cluster directly preceded it, while another occurred around the post-crash lows...
What does it mean this time? Could it be the end of the bull market? Nobody knows. But herky-jerky trading patterns alone are no reason to run. Sit back and pretend that you're on that island blissfully out of touch with your broker...