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Clark walked into, and deftly out of, his own scandal, when in 1959 the House Oversight Committee investigated payola, the record industry's system of bribing disc jockeys and program managers in return for airplay. It ended the career of Alan Freed, the man credited with applying the black sexual...
But this unabashed puffery is more likely due to the vested interests of analysts' colleagues on the dealmaking side than anything in the analysts' own portfolios. (After all, if they knew so much about how to fatten their own wallets, wouldn't they just buy winners instead of wasting credibility...
So where does that leave Wall Street this week? In the usual depressed state and Monday's two big non-AT&T financial newspaper stories didn't help. The NYT reports that 401(k) accounts, thanks to the average investor's over-reliance on stocks (especially their company's stock...
It would be easy to give up on technology stocks. They're stumbling again, as the likes of Lucent and Nortel pile on bad news. Everyone knows about the glut of cell phones, PCs, chips and fiber-optic line gathering dust. Earnings stink across the board, and stock-market gurus...
This Darwinian action has been repeating in tech land for decades. Yet through it all tech's risks have yielded ample rewards. The key, as ever, is a long-term approach, limiting tech holdings to a comfortable percentage of your portfolio and staying well diversified within the sector. In most...