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...search-engine outfit called Baidu, a.k.a. China's Google, launched an IPO in the U.S. The stock was initially priced at $27--and closed at $122.54 after its first day of trading, a move that evoked nothing if not the infamous dotcom bubble of the 1990s. Except that no one believes China's Internet boom is a bubble, given that there is so much potential growth...
...search-engine outfit called Baidu, a.k.a. China's Google, launched an IPO in the U.S. The stock was initially priced at $27?and closed at $122.54 after its first day of trading, a move that evoked nothing if not the infamous dotcom bubble of the 1990s. Except that no one believes China's Internet boom is a bubble, given that there is so much potential growth...
...taking the rest for an additional $150 million the following year. This, arguably, was a hefty price for a start-up in a market in its infancy, but that was hardly the point. China is on its way to having 200 million Internet users. E-commerce is surging, and dotcom companies in general are back in favor. Wildly...
After 16 years coaching football, Ameritrade CEO JOE MOGLIA knows comebacks. Once a dotcom disaster, Ameritrade has revived on his watch. It recently snubbed a bid from E-Trade and instead bought TD Waterhouse U.S.A., part of Toronto-Dominion Bank. Moglia spoke with TIME's JYOTI THOTTAM about online trading in the post-bubble...
Warren Buffett may be the greatest investor ever. But his long-term philosophy, which was ridiculed as he avoided the dotcom boom--and vindicated as he avoided the bust--is being scrutinized once more. The buy-and-hold billionaire is up to his ears in exotic investments known as derivatives, which are used to bet on things like the weather and the direction of interest rates. Derivatives were at the core of the 1994 bankruptcy of California's Orange County and the 1998 demise of hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management. Buffett once called derivatives "financial weapons of mass destruction...