Word: nasdaq
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...bring all this up? The NASDAQ is down 20% since Sept. 1, more than wiping out a brisk August rally. Other indexes have fared better, but you pretty much had to be an oil sheik to have made money last month. The euro is falling. The economy is slowing. The dotbombs are exploding, and companies are warning of weak quarterly results. Dell is the latest. Everyone has the jitters...
...cases, is to route the trade through Gerald Putnam's Archipelago. The Chicago firm, which created one of a new class of trading systems known as electronic communications networks (ECNs), can instantly determine where the best price is--on traditional markets, like the New York Stock Exchange, AMEX and NASDAQ, or among orders that come directly into Archipelago. Trades on the fully automated system are completed in less than a second, while a typical trade on the N.Y.S.E. takes 22 sec. "That's a lifetime in an active market," says CEO Putnam. "Our advantage comes from having no human intervention...
...notoriously risky, many critics think small-time investors shouldn't be fooling around with this business. Freudenthal counters that as long as you're betting only a small portion of your portfolio, 2% to 4%, "a professionally managed, diversified venture-capital fund is less risky than any single NASDAQ stock." And now, for the first time, it's a risk anyone can take...
DOTCOM DOLDRUMS How many times can one industry boom, then bust? September saw yet another round of layoffs, bankruptcies and general gloom for the Internet industry. Analysts say there were more dotcom layoffs last month than in any month since last December. The NASDAQ plummeted more than 700 points, and websites from MTV.com to OfficeMax slashed their staffs. Even mighty Walmart.com shut its virtual doors to remodel for the holiday rush. The final irony, however, may have come when Dotcomfailures.com a website devoted to bankrupt Internet companies, went out of business. Now that's a downturn...
...uncertainties of oil, interest rates, the Mideast and presidential politics will all be around for at least a few months. The only thing investors can do is ignore them if they choose, and in the NASDAQ that's at least possible as long as those rosy earnings reports keep coming. (Heck, Gateway even said European sales were dandy.) One big session makes a bounce. Two big sessions make the beginnings of a rally. A bona fide second wind for the 10-year bull market? We'll let you know in December...