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...1.8 percent, at 3,831.18. Among unsettling factors for technology shares was news that Amazon.com's losses were not narrowing, despite...mostly gloomy throughout the region, with investors bailing out of technology shares.
...toward companies that benefit from strong economic growth, analysts said. But for the most part, the plunge in technology shares was merely an overdue bout of profit-taking, said Charles Pradilla, chief investment strategist at SG Cowen Securities...
...industrial average jumped 276.74 points, or 2.7 percent, to 10,582.51, also largely on the strength of its technology shares. On Monday investors worldwide watched nervously as Nasdaq opened the day down 88 points and swung between gains...
...portion of the previous week's crushing losses. A broad range of stocks rose, from blue-chips to beaten-down technology shares. But volatility reigned, and market analysts couldn't shake a persistent fear that the bear that loomed over...
...fell last month to its lowest level in more than a year, due in part to roiling stock markets and the collapse of technology shares. And shoppers aren't opening their wallets as often, leading retailers to worry about the crucial holiday buying...
...day for the past five sessions on Wall Street. Analysts say investors who poured money into the largest, priciest technology shares in 1999 are now on a hunt for bargain stocks that just might turn into the next Microsoft or Cisco Systems...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Technology shares plunged today, with Microsoft weighing down the Nasdaq composite index. But rising financial shares and a continuing shift to...
...dropping by record amounts Friday as a resurgence of interest rate worries intensified Wall Street's distress over technology shares and sent the overall market into a tailspin of its own. When Friday's devastating session ended with the Dow Jones...
...who have understood technology and how it would transform the global economy. Still, even investors who believe technology shares and other new-economy stocks have a brilliant future must concede that the valuations of these stocks (price-to-earnings...
...Internet. Other companies have also seen their stocks manipulated by false information disseminated online. Lucent Technologies' shares fell 4 percent in late March after a fake news release was posted on an Internet bulletin board saying that Lucent...