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...will ride in on their white horses once again and save the day. It's simply too early to tell. What we know for sure, though, is that they didn't ride in last week, when the only tracks in evidence were left by the bears who trampled the NASDAQ, which fell a record 25.3% for the week, and the Dow, which on Friday suffered its worst one-day point loss--a, ahem, dip of 618 points...
...also know that those who tried to save the day two weeks ago on Terrible Tuesday--the day the NASDAQ fell 13.6% but got almost all of it back in a matter of hours--are now worse off for their efforts. The index finished on Friday at 3321, well below the week-earlier bottom of 3649. Investors who had smugly picked up Cisco at $64 and watched it rebound to $76 were by late last week the proud owners of a $57 stock. That will probably work out for them longer term. But raise your hand if you think such...
...anyway. And given discouraging news on inflation last Friday--the CPI has been rising at a 5.8% annual clip this year, the government reported--don't look for Greenspan to stop boosting rates soon. The ominous prospect of more rate increases, along with basic valuation questions, sent both the NASDAQ and the Dow average on another wild ride...
...left behind if one sector takes off. It's a confidence builder that, like turning off the tube, makes you less likely to sell when stocks dip--O.K., plunge--giving others the benefit of temporary low prices. Consider: many days this year, the Dow has been up when the NASDAQ was down, and vice versa. In the past 30 days, a tech-only portfolio might easily have lost 30% to 50% of its value. Yet if that portfolio had included bank stocks, plus some basic industry and consumer-goods companies, it would have been a relatively stable collection of stocks...
...says when the company indicated it did not have confidence in the market, other investors started to follow in removing their investments from the NASDAQ...