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...Sid” Knafel is a venture capital investor, whose investments range from cable television to cellular telephones, biotechnology, and computer software...
...Before the recovery process gets under way, stability will need to be restored to the American economy and to others around the world," Greenspan said. That "stability" is the diminishment of uncertainty, of danger, of fear, and it may have to be felt by consumer, business, and investor alike before we can move on and start dreaming again about how rich we?ll be next year. The working assumption of the Greenspans of this post-attack world is that the attack part, at least, is behind us. One-time shock, temporary trauma...
...seeming ambivalence toward the Palestinian cause helped inflame tensions before Sept. 11, the Saudis are appealing for much stronger U.S. pressure on Israel to accept a Palestinian state. "Wake up, and look at what you are doing in the Middle East," Prince Alwaleed bin Talal al Saud, an investor with more than $11 billion in U.S. holdings, said to TIME last week. "Arabs and Muslims have become frustrated...
...national man-in-the-street mood seems, lately, to have swung a little toward the cocky side - Bin Laden ain't so tough - and perhaps that's why Wall Street's predisposition this week has been to inch up instead of down while it waits for war. But any investor confident enough to buy into this week's tentative surge may want to remember that if Don Rumsfeld and Colin Powell and George W. Bush were as confident, we'd have seen some explosions in Afghanistan...
Weapons makers weren't the only winners on Wall Street last week. Web and video-conferencing companies such as WebEx, Polycom and Raindance, expecting order books of potential new customers wary of employee travel, briefly became investor darlings. Cell-phone companies such as Nokia and Verizon also benefited from the wireless industry's sudden image overhaul; no longer the objects of universal derision, cell phones are now seen, even by Luddites, as essential tools in case of emergency...