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...Investors who were hoping for a follow-up to Thursday's convincing rally were disappointed Friday as strong blue chips parted ways from the broader market, which closed lower. The Dow jumped a respectable 54 points to close at 7881 but the NASDAQ fell six points and the small-cap Russell 2000 finished down a fraction...
...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...