Word: indexation
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...stage drug hype and ipos. The vast majority of the drugs and companies soon failed, and the stocks crashed. Another bubble surfaced in 1999-2000, largely driven by excitement over the mapping of the human genome. In the 18 months before March 2000, the American Stock Exchange's biotech index rose 563% while the nasdaq rose 238%. Both plunged in the next two years. Now biotech is hot again. Since the stock market started to find its footing last July, U.S. biotech shares have risen 57%. Another bubble? Not necessarily. Many of the companies have marched steadily closer to bringing...
...stocks crashed. Another bubble surfaced in 1999-2000. While everyone was focused on the run-up in Internet stocks, biotech shares rose twice as fast, largely driven by excitement over the mapping of the human genome. In the 18 months before March 2000, the American Stock Exchange's biotech index rose 563% while the NASDAQ rose 238%. Both plunged in the next two years...
...minimum Academic Index (AI), a measure of eligibility that incorporates SAT scores and GPA or class rank on a 240-point scale, was also raised from 169 to 171, and a requirement was added that the mean AI of recruited athletes be no more than one standard deviation below the mean of all undergraduates at the particular college...
...keep things simple, consider a low-expense, blended index fund like Dreyfus Small Cap Stock Index, a top performer (up 2% a year the past three years). That will give you diversification, including value and growth stocks. For a more pointed approach, lean toward top-performing small-cap growth funds like Buffalo Small Cap (up 9% a year the past three years) and Liberty Acorn USA (up 8% a year). They're more leveraged to a recovery--without which small stocks of any kind are a bad bet anyway...
...large corporations are safe - in the U.K., the government is drawing up plans for compulsory insurance for some corporate pension schemes, many of which currently face huge deficits. A few simple rules can help you navigate Europe's new reality. Develop steady habits Even as he watched the FTSE index plummet from its all-time high at the end of 1999, Barry Lake, 48, kept investing. The surveyor from Rayleigh, England, first dipped into the stock market in 1994 by joining an investment club. Over the last two years Lake has shoveled about €2,830 - or around j118 monthly...