Word: nasdaq
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Which was more interesting: walking the red carpet at the Oscars or ringing the opening bell at NASDAQ? Walking the carpet. But don't get me wrong--I think I made history being the first rapper to ring the bell. I don't think I understood the importance of it until after I did it, so it didn't seem as exciting as everyone made...
...tempting to throw in the towel. After a rash of earnings disappointments last week, the Dow and Nasdaq tumbled to new year lows. Tensions over Iran's nuclear ambitions and rising oil prices are compounding fears that the stock market is on shaky footing. Yet there is much to suggest that the market, which was mixed but stable on Monday, will float higher in coming weeks and months. So hang in there...
...China, the Internet crowd is partying like it's 1999. Stocks like Sohu and Sina.com - Yahoo! or MSN equivalents - are soaring. IPOs are hot (Baidu.com, a.k.a. the Google of China, debuted on the Nasdaq recently and quadrupled in price on its first day of trading). And so important is China to e-commerce giant eBay that CEO Meg Whitman has been camped out in sweltering Shanghai for most of the summer, making sure eBay gets its China strategy right...
...tempting to call real estate NASDAQ 2.0, but there are key differences. David Lereah, chief economist for the National Association of Realtors, predicts another record year for real estate in 2005, with a 9% jump in prices nationwide. Lereah says the run-up in house prices is not built on the kind of hot air that promised that theglobe.com would be the next General Electric. Rather, he says, it is based on fundamentals that include tight housing supply--especially in places where it is tough or expensive to build, like New York City and San Francisco--such population factors...
...market's peak, 1% of investors controlled about 33.5% of stock wealth; the top 1% of home-equity holders have only 13% of housing wealth. In other words, a broad drop in home values, should it happen, would affect a far larger cross section of Americans than did the NASDAQ bust...