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...First case in point: Thursday. In the morning Greenspan, along with encouraging corporate words from Nokia and Siebel, put the Dow on a 100-point rally that was spreading nicely across the indexes. But by afternoon the nibblers had done their work and the Dow and NASDAQ had given back half the day's gains; another run-up had run out of steam...
...with "an improved degree of resiliency, flexibility and adaptability" driven by information technology and unbound by globalization and deregulation. "To be sure, a great deal of real economic pain has been felt over the past year and a half," he said. But for the economy to have weathered the NASDAQ crash of 2000 and the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 "as well as it has is truly impressive...
...problems, same fears. And a hangover to boot. The stock market, anticipatory beast that it is, has already started to put on the brakes; having regained 10,000 (a few times) in the past two weeks, the Dow seems positively allergic to the air at 11,000, and the NASDAQ, despite a 3-day rally to close the week, hasn't even been able to hang on to the 2,000 mark. Yes, the economic bottom is in, which means the indexes shouldn't see much in the way of big selloffs for a while, but this optimistic bottom...
...winner is ChemConnect of San Francisco, which has become "close to the NASDAQ of chemicals," says Stanford economics professor Bob Hall, author of Digital Dealing. ChemConnect has offices in seven countries and offers to bring together buyers and sellers worldwide. But rather than try to hook the computers of all participants into one online catalog, it started with a simple electronic bulletin board where buyers and sellers could post what they had or were seeking. From there the company worked up to more sophisticated auctions...
...businesses are going to start making more things and selling them at better prices - and all they got this week was a "definitely maybe, one of these days." Producers are waiting. Consumers are waiting. And investors, after a long and inspiring three months of running up the Dow and NASDAQ almost solely on faith, may be hearing from their gut that maybe they'd better just stop and think about this before placing any more big bets...