Word: teche
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that kind of environment, which makes them far less vulnerable to the dark side of economic growth--inflation and higher interest rates. If rates, which have also been going up, keep rising, it will let air out of a lot of consumer stocks, like Wal-Mart and Merck. Tech stocks would also suffer. Rising rates are terrible for bonds...
...technology and big consumer stocks. One quick way to judge: look at your portfolio's return in April. Lose money? That's a sign that you may be overexposed to speculation.com A diverse portfolio would include cyclicals, whose com-like gains last month would have offset weakness in the tech-stock darlings...
This is no time to dump tech stocks wholesale. The information revolution will continue to shape the world economy for years to come, and profitable tech companies remain solid long-term holdings. But if you must lighten up on tech to broaden your portfolio, do it. Companies that build tractors, equipment, highways and skyscrapers--left for dead until a few weeks ago--may be in favor for a year or longer. The biggest cyclical names, like Caterpillar, International Paper and DuPont, have already had huge moves but probably still have room to run. Consider also an investment in a Wilshire...
...Countdown to Star Wars, and 17 staff members, including a media-relations liaison, a sponsor-relations coordinator and a treasurer. They had a permit from the city, a hotel room across the street for showers, a pay phone hooked up to take phone calls from radio stations, and a tech-support van broadcasting a live webcam pointed at the theater. This, I assume, was to prove the old saw that the only thing more boring than sleeping out for Star Wars tickets is watching people sleeping out for Star Wars tickets...
...business made such a case, it might have been able to hang on to a proven performer like Valjeanne Estes. A graduate of Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, with a master's in engineering from Georgia Tech, Estes, 36, worked in the booming telecommunications industry before heading for her M.B.A. Upon graduation from Fuqua, she interviewed with MCI and SkyTel. "But I wanted something that reflected my priorities, and I didn't see that in the corporate world," Estes says. She eventually became coordinator of a summer camp devoted to teaching girls about economic independence, putting some...