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...founded in 1984 to sell computers without a middleman (Direct from Dell, the ads said). Its hyperefficient model helped it pass Compaq to become North America's largest PC manufacturer. Nor is Dell's good news all behind it. Just last Thursday, Dell almost single-handedly ran the Dow up 400 points when it confirmed that first-quarter profit estimates were on track. Last year the company earned $2.3 billion on sales of $32 billion...
...short, thin week - there's no trading on Good Friday (to make sure it's good) and most of the big money is home minding the kids while they're off from school. Last week was brutal; even counting historic Thursday rallies, the NASDAQ lost 6.5 percent and the Dow 1 percent. And the next Fed meeting's more than a month away...
...Funny how a few lonely speculators can get together and decide they're going to get in ahead of the big boys. Tuesday the markets opened high and hard on light volume - Dow up 190 and NASDAQ up 70 after about a half-hour of action - and hope was once again on the trading floor in at least measurable quantities...
...Wouldn't be any worse? O happy day! Throw in some Street-beating numbers from Alcoa (for the Dow) and some bullish chatter - by analysts on Yahoo and eBay, and by Fed governors about the U.S.' chances of dodging a recession - and the market party was on. Both the Dow and the NASDAQ shot up early and stayed up late, and by day's end the industrials and techs had notched gains of 402 and 146, respectively. (That's 8.9 percent for the currently microscopic NASDAQ, by the way, its third-biggest percentage gain ever...
...None. In this climate, 20 percent isn't that serious a decline, and the biggest problem for the Dow isn't that it's going down, it's that it's not going up. As long the Dow stays above 9000, there isn't anything to be particularly concerned about...