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...growing, albeit fitfully, and its underlying fundamentals remain sound. What does need stimulating -- and this is where political advisers like Karl Rove come in -- is the public's perception of the economy's health. And that is tied directly to the markets. "People look at the Dow and the Nasdaq and they feel queasy about the economy," a White House official told me the other day. "They look at their retirement portfolios and they want to throw...
...BUBBLE Yes, it has burst, as anyone who pays attention to the NASDAQ knows. Now we're obsessed with bubbles: Are housing prices...
...data-mining algorithms of ClearForest, based in New York City, are at work within both Israeli security agencies and NASDAQ. Israel uses them to drill for hidden connections among suspected terrorists: say, a pattern of phone calls shortly before each of several suicide bombings. NASDAQ uses the same software to detect block trades of stock quietly placed just before the release of company news--including sales by relatives of ImClone's founder, Sam Waksal, who this fall pleaded guilty to insider-trading charges, and his friend Martha Stewart, who remains under investigation (and has denied any wrongdoing...
...Both NASDAQ and Israel's security services are sprawling organizations, bombarded daily with terabytes of information, any bit of which may prevent a catastrophe, whether measured in lives or in retirement savings lost to fraud. And these days, data-mining software, combined with technologies that connect disparate computer systems and databases, is making it possible for everyone from police departments to clothing merchants to global manufacturers to search through ever expanding data warehouses and draw valuable connections that would otherwise be lost to human eyes...
...long ago, the three NASDAQ-listed Chinese Internet portals, or chortals, were serious dogs. Trading in NetEase was suspended for four months last year as the company sorted through earnings misstatements and a shareholder lawsuit. Sohu's stock bottomed out in April 2001 at 60, and Sina's shares dove from $54.50 that spring to $1.07 some 18 months later...