Word: nasdaq
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...doubt that Dean Venky's idea of TECH will improve the opportunities for our undergraduates in what (despite the recent fall in the Nasdaq index!) is an important area, of entrepreneurship," he writes in an e-mail message...
...ticket items like new real estate. And this, despite its overtones of recession, says Baumohl, can be seen as very good news: The Federal Reserve may be able to lay off its series of interest rate hikes sooner than previously expected. The stock markets certainly think so - the NASDAQ on Tuesday posted its best-ever one-day gain, while the Dow registered a respectable 185-point rise...
...Friday's sell-off, prompted by the latest inflation figures and fears of interest rate hikes, may have forced traders to begin a more stringent selection process. It's increasingly difficult to predict an upward drift in whole sectors, and the strategy of hedging Dow investments against NASDAQ buys came unstuck Friday when they dived in concert. Still, it's a safe bet that somethinghas to go up, since Friday's sell-off has sent hundreds of billions of dollars roaming in search of new homes. Whether it be bonds or utilities or safer tech stocks or safer blue chips...
...always going to be a "black Monday" on Asian and European markets, but Wall Street saw the beginnings of a skittish recovery. After a day of see-saw trading, NASDAQ had clawed its way back a healthy 6 percent gain following its Friday plunge, while the Dow had soared by 217 points. Earlier, traders spooked by New York's frightful Friday fled Asian markets in droves, shaving 7 percent off Tokyo's Nikkei index and 8.6 percent off Hong Kong's Hang Seng. London's FTSE fell 4 percent to a six-month low in the first minutes of trading...
...History is a firehose. I expect that any day now, we will enter a period of '90s nostalgia. We will recall Bill Gates and the high old times of the NASDAQ as if they were yesterday...