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...recession, and though growth there is feeble, it has still been enough to hold the yen steady against the dollar. Europeans point out too that there are growing opportunities for high-tech investment on their continent, if not quite as many as in the U.S. A new index of European technology stocks rose two-thirds last year...
...gross-domestic-product growth for the year to 5%. Ed Yardeni, chief economist of Deutsche Bank, agrees, largely because he believes the skyrocketing rise of stock prices in late 1999 and early this year "most likely did contribute to boosting car sales and housing-related sales." With the NASDAQ index by late May down roughly a third from its March peak, he says, "within the next couple of months we'll find weaker car sales, weaker retail sales, weaker housing activity." Varvares expects a further slowdown to about 2 1/2% growth in 2001, though he thinks the pace will pick...
...least does not wash in and out with the economic tides; once turned into bricks, mortar and machinery, it stays put. Portfolio--that is, stock and bond--investment is more volatile. But Lawrence Kudlow, chief economist of CNBC.com points out that the 37% nose dive in the NASDAQ index from its March 10 high to its May 23 low did not appear to scare away much foreign investment--at least not enough to make any difference in the dollar's price. "I was holding my breath on that one," says Kudlow...
Newman has already raised some $8 million. Until recently it wasn't too hard, even for an undergraduate, to line up donations. As long as tech stocks were pushing the NASDAQ index to record highs, VCs could take scores of seedling companies public before they had time to fail, and walk away with triple-digit gains. The recent market downturn doesn't seem to faze Newman. "We're taking a long-term view," he says, like a Silicon Valley...
...Series I savings bonds for a measure of protection from rising prices. The interest paid on bonds issued from May 1 through October 2000 is a hefty 7.49%, at an annual rate. That includes a 3.6% fixed rate plus a 3.82% inflation adjustment based on the recent consumer price index (cpi). Small savers can't beat that attractive payout, and some large investors have been jumping...