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Auction sites are becoming increasingly popular as well. Ebay (www.ebay.com) went public in late September, and its stock value has increased 70 percent since the initial public offering. These sites primarily serve as facilitators of exchange between buyers and sellers, and they have no products themselves. Other auction sites include www.onsale.com and www.webauction.com...
Last spring I noted that corporate buyers--who should know the value of their own shares better than anyone--had turned glum. In a warning that the market was headed for hard times, stock buybacks were slowing, and insiders were selling more than they bought. Now that trend has quietly turned, and it's tempting to see it--along with the rate cut--as a buy signal. In fact, some nibbling may not be a bad idea. I would certainly endorse a program of monthly buying with a set amount of money...
...would guard against too much restored confidence, however. For one thing, the rate cut could mean that Greenspan views the economy as even weaker than it looks, which of course would not bode well for stock prices. As for the insiders, they are famous for buying too early. During the late-'80s banking crisis, bank executives bought their own "cheap" shares two years before bank stocks hit bottom. And last year, just as stocks were selling at nosebleed prices, corporate purchasers at 1,700 companies announced buybacks worth $220 billion...
...grossed over $1.6 million; the surplus of film schools; cheaper and more accessible technologies (credible-looking features can now be shot on digital video at a cost of about $20 for an hour of tape, as opposed to, say, $15,000 for an hour of 35-mm film stock and processing); easy credit. Estimates of the total number of independent films that will be made this year range upwards of 1,100. "And that's only completed films," says Jeff Lipsky, an executive at Samuel Goldwyn Films. "Lord knows how many more at least start production." By Lipsky's count...
...funds, stocks and bonds from different shops when you can manage them all under one roof? That's the pitch behind the new, downscale brokerage services of Vanguard, the nation's second largest fund family, best known until now for its index funds. To compete with discount brokers like Fidelity and Charles Schwab, Vanguard last week announced it will lower commissions on stock trades and expand its non-Vanguard offerings. Online trading will also debut by Christmas...