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...technology stocks represented about 30 percent of the Russell 2000, an all-time high. After the rebalancing, the technology sector will undoubtedly carry less weight. Russell officials wouldn't release a specific figure, but Steven DeSanctis...
...first climbed above 10,000 only three sessions before that, last March 29. The market's main barometer of the technology sector -- the Nasdaq composite index, which includes nearly 4,700 companies slipped only 27.15 points, or 0.6 percent...
...Management. ''Even though the market leadership of the technology sector is sufficiently powerful that it may continue, speculative...Even with the weakest performers benched, the technology sector faces some formidable obstacles in the coming months...
...Jones composite Internet index, jumped 70 percent in its first month, then fell into free fall with the rest of the technology sector. It's now down 43 percent for the year, giving it the dubious title of worst performer so far in 2000, according...
...composite index, the best-known barometer of the technology sector, rose 608.27 points, or 19 percent this past...Nasdaq.'' Money managers are jumping back into the technology sector because many believe that many stocks that reached...
...strong corporate earnings reports, which proved another significant factor in the week's stock market gains. The technology sector, for example, took off after Internet giant Yahoo! reported better than expected second-quarter earnings. A...
...one of a series begun in 1993, found that rich techies have nearly 60 percent of their equity portfolios in the technology sector, including stock in their own companies. ''Rich,'' as defined for research purposes, includes the top 1 percent...
...world. Microsoft was once thought of by most investors as the penultimate barometer of the health of the U.S. technology sector, if not the entire U.S. economy. And not far behind Microsoft on the list of technology heavy hitters was computer...
...over." On Wall Street, stocks opened mixed, with blue chip investors encouraged by the inflation report and the technology sector falling on continued fears of a second-half earnings slowdown. In the first hour of trading, the Dow Jones industrial...
...the economy is still growing at a fair pace. Many of the difficulties have been concentrated in the information technology sector -- among the high-flyers that were overdue for a correction, rather than among the stable companies that undergird...