Word: marketization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Wall Street, investors have a word for such a collection: overhead. Even before the market tanked, analysts were marking down casino stocks on the fundamentals--too much capacity--and they are worried that this latest building boom will crap out. The Vegas Valley, for instance, is heading into a glut of 127,000 hotel rooms--up a scary 20% from the current level. That's one reason gaming stocks such as Mirage's have lost one-third to one-half of their value in the past year. The weakening global economy is also taking its toll. The high rollers from...
...broadcasting executives or Wall Street analysts and advertising consultants to explain why the WB has been so successful--actually increasing the size of its audience while all the other networks are losing viewers--and they will talk about market niches, brand loyalty, cable affiliates and so on. All of which is very interesting and valid but misses the point. The key to the WB's success is this: babes, male and female. With the glossy yet smoldering Sarah Michelle Gellar of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the coltish Katie Holmes of Dawson's Creek, the Phoebus-like Barry Watson...
...what about people who aren't so blessed as to work for the best darn company in the world? Laptops constitute the fastest-growing sector of the computer market, and last year Big Blue undertook the most extensive consumer-research campaign in ThinkPad's six-year history to try to figure out who's buying them. It discovered a new class of information worker: mobile folks who buy their own gear. These consumers work at small start-ups. They're college students. They're even people who like to telecommute, but from the sofa rather than the home office. Some...
Some encouraging signs have surfaced for those itching to load up on stocks at today's lower prices. Alan Greenspan's surprise interest-rate cut, which sent the market rocketing higher on Thursday, is one. But even before that move, savvy corporate buyers had been turning up the volume. Last week marketing firm Cendant unveiled a $1 billion program to buy its own shares. This followed on the heels of buybacks by Pfizer ($5 billion), McDonald's ($3.5 billion) and American Express ($3.3 billion). In September $25 billion in share repurchases was announced--double the pace of earlier this year...
Last spring I noted that corporate buyers--who should know the value of their own shares better than anyone--had turned glum. In a warning that the market was headed for hard times, stock buybacks were slowing, and insiders were selling more than they bought. Now that trend has quietly turned, and it's tempting to see it--along with the rate cut--as a buy signal. In fact, some nibbling may not be a bad idea. I would certainly endorse a program of monthly buying with a set amount of money...