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Forget the profitless dotcoms. Better to hunt for beaten-up telecom stocks like Verizon and WorldCom, which are now popping up on the screens of dyed-in-the-wool value managers. The tech tortured can seek solace among energy services, banks and insurers, consumer staples and health care. Stay diversified and somewhat conservative. An all-purpose growth-and-income fund might be just the thing. Bonds are also a decent place to hide while the market is seeing a dark cloud behind every silver lining...
...turned so sweet so fast. While production, jobs, incomes and consumer spending soared in the U.S. last year, corporate profits fell. To be sure, they fell only 0.8%, but that result stood out like the proverbial uncertain trumpet in a triumphal march. By April, analysts had begun muttering about "profitless prosperity" when--bingo! Within days, company earnings reports for the first quarter of 1999 heralded what the government eventually calculated was the strongest profit rebound in four years...
...cobwebbed corners of Wall Street where things like dividends and profits are revered--finally, the curmudgeons could crow about reality setting in. EBay, selling at 8,000 times earnings, had been exposed; Net mania was over. By week's end, though, those who would deflate the bull market in profitless companies got a familiar lesson: bubbles die hard, and this one still...
...afternoon, permanent crowds often gather in front of the performers, enjoying the ambiance of the outdoor show. According to one musician, these unsolicited street concerts can pull in up to $50 a day. At the same time, a `slow' day can prove to be profitless...
...course Sun fully expects its profitless approach to turn a profit in the end. More than half the computer servers on the Internet are Sun machines; anything that increases Internet traffic (as Java surely will) is bound to add to Sun's bottom line. Even more interesting, from a business perspective, is the so-called intranet--the collection of networks that connect computers withincorporations--that both Sun and Microsoft have targeted as a rich area for growth. To help head off its chief competitor, Sun last week launched a new JavaSoft division, run by Alan Baratz, a former IBM executive...