Word: delling
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Some market leaders, like Wal-Mart and Dell, have such enormous scale and low cost structures that they can use aggressive pricing to bleed their rivals. Other relatively smaller players, like Toyota, Steel Dynamics and Southwest Airlines, are so efficient and innovative that they can steal customers away from lumbering giants. Certain companies, like online-auction dynamo eBay, offer a service that lots of struggling firms and consumers are eager to use in hard times...
...over the past 20 years, the computer industry is seeing sales decline for the first time ever. Before Sept. 11, research firm IDC was predicting unit shipments in 2001 would slide 6.3% from last year, to 45.3 million, and the terrorist attacks could push fall sales down further. Dell, Compaq and the rest of the PC companies have so far cut--or announced plans to cut--46,000 jobs this year, or about 12% of the industry's payroll. Chipmakers have it worse. Their worldwide revenue is expected to plunge 20% to 30% this year...
...annual invitation-only European Technology Roundtable Exhibition attracts top Silicon Valley investors, some 1,000 ceos (like Bill Gates and Dell Computers' Michael Dell), and start-ups looking for cash and credibility...
...every Dell and Cisco, these days, there is a Sun and an AMD, issuing glum earnings outlooks and quietly smothering the newborn tech optimism in its cradle. And the NASDAQ that had posted decent gains Thursday on the it's-gonna-be-OK news from America's bellwether PC producer and router-maker quickly crumbled, shedding its gains dolefully into Friday afternoon. Taken together with job cuts soaring to ten-year highs last month (and that's just the barest taste of the post-disaster economy - the hold at 4.9 percent unemployment for September is the ultimate in lagging indicators...
...Wall Street has is Dell and Sun, Cisco and AMD, this gloomy earnings report and that (relatively) sunny one. And US Airways CEO Stephen Wolf now saying his airline may not even need (or want) the loan guarantees - which is just plain hard to believe. The indexes are surfing on forecasts, outlooks, estimates and economic reports that have only just begun to describe the post-Sept. 11 world...