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...exists no longer, principally because failure in modern, NASDAQ times has no redeeming social value. In its place sit rows and rows of gleaming successes. Last week, on the same day that I saw Wonder Boys, I watched a different bunch of wonder boys (and women) strut their stuff on a TV special called Summit in Silicon Valley. ("Bunch" is wrong for the collective noun. "Grin?") I watched a grin of high-tech billionaires sunning themselves in national adoration, bright models of achievement for every double-breasted hopeful yearning for a Lexus. No one mentioned beautiful losers. The last shall...
...shift is clearest, though, in hard numbers. In January, investors poured a record $40 billion into stock funds, and $29 billion of it went into aggressive-growth and growth funds--the ones that own NASDAQ stocks. The rest went into sector funds, which are 75% invested in tech. Equity-income funds and growth and income funds (which favor blue chips) had outflows. Bond funds also had outflows--a hefty $10 billion worth...
...found a tract of land for sale and were dead certain it would be worth 10 times the price to a developer, you'd sell or hock everything you own to buy it. Right? Well, that's the way investors around the globe are behaving with NASDAQ stocks. A massive liquidation of nontech assets is under way as people reach for the means to buy more Cisco, 3com and Apple. It's an incredible display of pack investing that begs the question, Is NASDAQ bulletproof...
...measure, the NASDAQ accounts for every penny made in the stock market the past 12 months. In that span, the market value of all U.S. stocks increased $2.5 trillion, but NASDAQ stocks alone rose $3.1 trillion. That means non-NASDAQ stocks fell $600 billion. Foreigners are equally gaga. Last year they were net sellers of Treasury bonds for the first time, and they bought a record $107 billion of U.S. stocks. Care to guess which ones...
...with your aggressive-growth holdings. If individual stocks are your thing, five is a minimum, and be certain they are in different industries. Look for value. Depressed bank stocks are bound to rally after the Fed signals that rates have risen enough. When will that be? Probably when the NASDAQ finally cools...