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...rates were cut swiftly three times in a row, the Dow has been higher one year after the third cut on 12 occasions. A cut this week would be the third this go-round. The median gain in the 13 cases was 25%, according to Ned Davis Research. The NASDAQ, which came into being in 1971, has never been negative a year after a third consecutive rate cut, and its gains have also been impressive...
...results have been plunging profits, mass layoffs and imploding stock values for companies that had been NASDAQ supernovas and among the chief reasons for the stock market's rise. At BlueStone Capital Securities, an index of 13 fiber-optic heavyweights that includes Lucent, Cisco, Nortel and JDS Uniphase has fallen 78% since last July, a plunge that has cost investors more than $1.1 trillion in market value. The percentage decline exceeds the drop for NASDAQ as a whole, which fell 51% over the same stretch...
...this year. Phone companies "are really conserving their capital because of the severe downturn in the economy," says Clarence Chandran, Nortel's chief operating officer. Nortel is a one-company bear market. The world's No. 1 producer of fiber-optic systems, Nortel accelerated the industry's slide and NASDAQ's sell-off last month by abruptly slashing its 2001 forecasts and declaring that it would idle 10,000 employees, or nearly 10% of its work force...
...ranking pessimist. As such, being right--as he has been lately--is a mixed blessing. It means things suck. So it would be unseemly to gloat. Yet Biggs could, even should, given that 16 months ago he was dismissed as, in his word, "antiquated." In November 1999, with the NASDAQ flying, he advised in a report that "rational investors should begin gradually to reduce their holdings in technology and telecommunications over the next three months...
...NASDAQ soared 46%; Biggs lost credibility. He recalls a public debate with James Glassman, author of Dow 36,000, during which the audience let out incredulous guffaws when Biggs asserted that air conditioning was a more important invention than the Internet. A vote after the debate was "200 to 2 against me, and one of those votes was my wife," Biggs quips...