Word: nasdaq
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Wall Street Rally After Wednesday's blue chips-only rise of 74 points -- with barely any broad market participation -- equities caught fire on Thursday as everything from tech to drugs, Nasdaq small caps to big-board behemoths all caught fire. The Dow rose 101.8 points to finish above...
...gesture seemed too small with a full-blown panic possibly still ahead. At half time of Monday Night Football, the NASDAQ stock market, a sponsor, stated its closing value as it usually does, but failed to mention, as it usually does, the index's change for the day. In this case, it was down a record 116 points...
...guerrilla perspective, is that the lead underwriter who puts together an investment syndicate to take a company public offers it $12 a share, then prices the stock to the public at $15. Theoretically, some of that $3 a share could be the company's. So the stock hits NASDAQ via the traditional underwriting route at $15, then races to $18, or $20, or higher. Whereupon those retail investors who come in late at $22 watch the stock's grim slide back down to $14. "It's a sinister game that is played very, very intelligently by the banks and their...
...dollars in technology so that they can answer all the calls and execute all the trades on the busiest days. The New York Stock Exchange, which has never traded even 1 billion shares in a day, currently has the capacity to trade 3 billion shares. On the computerized Nasdaq stock market, capacity was a mere 250 million shares a day in 1987 and is now 1 billion shares, headed for 1.5 billion shares by the end of the year...
...does, however, produce stock market rockets. Networking stocks have helped push the tech-laden nasdaq exchange to new highs, and Cisco Systems--a networker whose stock has risen more than 12,000% in the past seven years--is the Apollo of the group. Fund managers trip over themselves to predict how high Cisco stock, which closed last week at $67, will be come Thanksgiving (consensus: $85). In the past six weeks the stock is up 50%. Analysts flock to industry conventions to predict a glowing future...