NEW YORK -- Sexy new Internet stocks, like Commerce One Inc. and VA Linux, helped make 1999 a record year for initial public stock offerings and the trend looks...
...The following day, Mobius, a renowned mutual-fund manager for the Franklin Templeton group, warned that global Internet stocks appeared to be reaching their likely peak. And Thursday, Robertson said he would shut down Tiger Management, the...
...Weinstein of Pacific Crest Securities said, ''There's no chance that this is the end of premium valuations for Internet stocks like Amazon.'' This week, with the stock worth half what it was when he made that statement, he reaffirmed his...
...everyone, because it winnowed the weak dot-coms and left more resources for the strong. But given the size of the Internet stock slump -- one analyst noted that the sector had plummeted 61 percent since March and rebounded only 25 percent since...
...circulated about investors who borrowed money and then lost their shirts after trying to get in on that "sure thing" Internet stock. Investing on margin has always been risky, but greater risk means greater rewards. Bearing that in mind, a growing...
...growth potential appeared to lend credence to that unwavering sense of optimism. Money poured into the handful of Internet stocks that emerged via high profile initial public offerings and stock prices subsequently soared into the stratosphere...
...advertising growth will be less than that of the nation's gross domestic product. And you can bet your last share of Internet stock that traditional media, like Internet publishing, will not emerge from this downturn unscathed. As advertisers...
...Baltimore. "Even though stock prices are low. Investors don't feel they are low enough." It was one thing when Internet stocks, long on debt and short on profits, began to crumble. But no one expected the safe havens of the old economy...
...The question of analyst independence on Wall Street has been simmering since the collapse of once high-flying Internet stocks two years ago. Critics contend that analysts, such as Merrill Lynch's Henry Blodget and Salomon Smith Barney's...
...since the merger. When the deal was first announced, in January 2000, AOL was riding so high on the crest of the Internet stock wave that it was able to offer $163 billion worth of its shares for Time Warner, which the stock market then valued...
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