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Christine M. Rohrbeck '00, who has accepted an offer to work at investment banking firm Morgan Stanley Dean Witter in New York next year, says such students face "an awkward social situation...
...knows for sure how many people day trade. But the number is way up from a few years ago, when this bull market kicked into high gear and the Internet began making it easy and cheap to buy and sell stocks. Barton Biggs, an analyst at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, confirms and bemoans the trend in biting missives to clients about his plumber, who is so busy trading he won't come to fix a leaking pipe. I've written about the guy behind the deli counter leafing through Barron's for that day's stock trade. It's epidemic...
...stocks are also likely to sink if the U.S. market falls. Long term, they make a lot of sense. Barton Biggs, emerging-markets guru at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, predicts that "coming out of the next cyclical bear market," whenever that may be, "emerging markets are going to be the place of maximum outperformance." Even if he's right, you've got plenty of time...
Joseph Battipaglia, chairman of investment policy at Gruntal & Co., a major brokerage company, predicts an actual decline in the rate of the 30-year Treasury bond to around 5.75% by year's end and possibly to 5.5% sometime in 2000. Barton Biggs, chairman of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Investment Management, is generally the most pessimistic of the board members, but on this subject he goes Battipaglia one better. His prediction: "A year from now [the 30-year Treasury rate] will be in the area...
...cash in quickly. Profits? They don't even have revenue. Drugstore.com an online prescription-drug company, has filed for an IPO even though it has only three months of formal results. The IPO may do well anyway. The company has a top-notch underwriter in Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. It is the first online company of its kind to attempt to sell shares to the public, and it's backed by savvy Internet investors, including Amazon founder Jeff Bezos...