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...fund industry is praying that the online trading boom and focus on just a few stocks (America Online, Amazon, eBay, Yahoo, Cisco) is a short-term phenomenon, the sign of a cyclical market that has got out of hand, rather than a fundamental, long-term shift. "It's based on a false sense of empowerment," claims funds watcher Avi Nachmany of Strategic Insight. Once the narrow bull market calms down, or broadens to include harder-to-choose value and small-cap stocks (as it appears to have done of late), Nachmany and others argue, investors will rush back...
...demand for com names has advanced to the point where speculators who snap up the most valuable ones can resell them for thousands and even hundreds of thousands of dollars. (Three Star Wars sites--EPISODEI.com and its two sequels--were recently sold for $1 million on eBay.) Given that the number of websites is doubling every year, the demand for new com names must someday outstrip the supply...
...world's biggest what? Amazon.com announced today that it's buying 35 percent of Homegrocer.com, a Seattle-area online grocer with national plans. The $42.5 million-dollar investment is just the latest splash in an ongoing wave of expansion plans that include eBay-style auctions, Pets.com and a web pharmacy called Drugstore.com...
...hard to believe that just over a year ago, when Armstrong laid out his strategy to his fellow executives, betting big on cable was a radical idea. Then again, that was a time before eBay was a publicly traded company and skeptics insisted Yahoo was overvalued at $24 a share. Since then, the Internet has grown by hyperleaps, and cable-broadband looks likely to be the tool that makes it grow even faster...
Even FM reporters have joined the underwear selling bandwagon. This past weekend, one posted an ad on Ebay for a pair of silk Victoria Secret panties. Already, there have been bidders. Yes, these bidders may be sick, but should that prevent this profitable enterprise? Imagine how much someone might pay for the panties of a NCAA Harvard hockey champ? Or a U.C. Bigwig? How much more for a bra-underwear set? The opportunities are endless. But please, no laundry room brawls--there are more than enough to go around...