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...American Consumer, in continuing to go where Mr. and Mrs. CEO fear to tread - namely, the marketplace - have kept the economy?s pulse going since January and will likely have to keep it up for the rest of the year if we?re to avoid paying for the dot-com boom with a bona fide recession...
...That bit of dot-com nostalgia, however, pales in comparison to last week?s dose, in which JDS Uniphase, highest-flying of the tech-infrastructure high-flyers, reported that it had lost about $50 billion in Q2. As the NYT editorial page was stirred to note Sunday, that "may be the biggest loss in corporate history...
...roll out elsewhere in the West. The company won't say where, but the Bay Area seems a soft touch in the wake of Webvan. The British firm Tesco, whose two-year-old delivery website is already breaking even in Britain, just took a 35% stake in GroceryWorks. com and will supply the in-store technology...
...already neck-deep in Asian equities, the best advice is to stay where you are. Pulling your money out in panic can only mean losing more. Better to wait for the markets to recover, unless you have absolutely no faith in a company's fundamentals?or there is a ".com" in its name. If you're feeling adventurous, this might actually be a good time to buy. Most of Asia's stock markets are trading close to their five-year lows in terms of price-to-earning ratios...
...even is a problem. Whose idea was it to start trusting Wall Street in the first place? Transparency of a company's books are essential to a fair and efficient market, but the credibility of soundbite-dishing analysts is not. During the dot-com gold rush, a lot of investors bet a lot of money on analysts whose opinions turned out to be rubbish. Now we're in the head-shaking phase, where everyone's gotten wise and the hidden-agenda company analysts of the late '90s are down in financial history with snake-oil salesmen. Should anyone have been...