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NIGHT MOVES On www.MarketXT.com small investors can buy and sell the 200 largest stocks on the N.Y.S.E. and NASDAQ from 6 to 8 p.m. E.T., but certain trading restrictions can make the after-hours market more volatile. Thin trading volumes can lead to major price swings, and risk-limiting stop-loss and good-until-canceled orders are not allowed. Since all traffic must go through online brokers--so far, only Discover and Dreyfus offer the nighttime service--transmission delays and other computer problems may foul up profits. For more info, read MarketXT's rather lengthy disclosure...
...been quite an experience," says Jack Marshall, founder of Photoloft.com which moves pictures across the Net. His stock, traded on the NASDAQ bulletin board, is down 66%, to less than $3 a share. All 32 of his employees have stock options. The collapse "hasn't really hurt morale because business is so good, we all know we're here for the long term," he says. Still, at many Net firms, the early-year euphoria of optioned employees is gone. Net investors, many of them day-trading online, have had a comeuppance as well. Losses have driven thousands...
WALL STREET CLEANING The National Association of Securities Dealers is getting rid of half its 6,500 over-the-counter securities. They'll go out the door unless they start reporting financial information regularly. These securities, too small to be listed on NASDAQ, are being reviewed alphabetically by ticker symbol. Noncompliant companies, listed on www.otcbb.com have 30 days to change their status or wind up on the National Quotation Bureau's pink sheets, available online by August...
Wall Street just remembered that to get rich, you?ve still got to sell once in a while. After watching the Dow and NASDAQ spend the past three weeks wafting in record territory, and hearing this week?s good-news, bad-news earnings reports - such as Microsoft?s, which combined Street-beating earnings with oblique forecasts of Y2K headaches - investors evidently figured Tuesday was as good a time as any. "This was profit-taking, pure and simple," says TIME Wall Street columnist Dan Kadlec of the three bears (the Dow shed 191, the Nasdaq...
Moved PermanentlyMoved PermanentlyFortune Investor DataSo why were the markets ?- led by NASDAQ, which as an index of debt-heavy tech start-ups is especially sensitive to interest rates ?- on the uptick moments after that fateful "preempt" had passed Greenspan?s lips? Because he?s going to do it only once. "A quarter-point hike, which is really nominal, has already been factored in anyway," says Baumohl. "All this talk about preemption means there won?t be a series of hikes. Greenspan is still ahead of the curve." The idea of a preventative tweak ?- and this chairman?s impeccable record says...