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Tech Stocks Back In Favour
News Technology stocks continued their recent hot streak on Wednesday as the Nasdaq composite motored up 153 points to 4,864.58. You are seeing a lot of the tech stocks that were annihilated coming back. Semiconductor stocks were especially popular on...
[March 23, 2000, 10:32]
UK Tech Stocks Back In Black
News High-tech stocks jumped in the UK and around Europe early Monday, following on sharp gains from the US' biggest technology market Friday. Industry observers warned investors not to expect a rebound in technology stocks.
[October 16, 2000, 12:25]
EMC And AMD Lead Techs South
News The Nasdaq lost almost 4 percent at midday Friday, as EMC and Advanced Micro Devices led technology stocks south. The whole storage sector suffered, as did other enterprise-related stocks such as Sun Microsystems, the Nasdaq's most actively traded...
[July 9, 2001, 14:07]
Nasdaq, Dow Make Huge Gains For Second Straight Day
News US technology stocks made enormous gains again Tuesday as investors continued to dive in after last week's brutal sell-off. Internet stocks were especially strong Tuesday as leaders such as Yahoo! B2B stocks caught fire as well as PurchasePro rose...
[April 19, 2000, 10:54]
UK Bankers See No Sign Of Tech Recovery
News UK investment bank Beeson Gregory has warned that technology stocks are unlikely to recover in the near future. Last June it held £18.9m in technology stocks, but the value of these investments has now fallen to around £10m.
[August 21, 2001, 13:30]
Why Mighty MS Missed The Boat
News While investors continue to buy technology stocks at a torrid pace, the most prolific technology stock of all time has become something of a leper. While information technology continues to change at light speed, Microsoft manages to carry on as...
[November 19, 1999, 8:39]
FTSE Boosted By Tech And Telecom Stocks
News The FTSE 100 index closed up 145 points at 6,185 on Thursday as UK technology and telecom stocks benefited from Wednesday's cut in US interest rates. High-tech stocks Sage Group (quote: SGE) and Misys (quote: MSY) both closed up more than 12 percent.
[January 4, 2001, 17:36]
Nasdaq: Have We Hit Rock Bottom Yet?
News NEWS ANALYSIS -- Investors were forced to ask themselves whether the worst is yet to come as they as they continued their relentless dumping of technology stocks Monday afternoon, dragging the Nasdaq composite below the 2,000-point threshold for...
[March 13, 2001, 8:17]
Rank Of Tech Billionaires Dwindled In 2000
News After watching their stocks soar to astounding heights in 1999, the technology chief executives with the highest net worth looked on helplessly in 2000 as their fortunes dwindled, in some cases to mere millions.
[January 2, 2001, 13:47]
Are Techs Worth Their Stock?
News But one thing's for certain: Technology companies need a lot of growth if they're going to generate as much cash over the next few years as shareholders have plowed into their stocks over the last two and a half months.
[December 21, 2001, 13:19]
UK Markets: Another Grey Day
News While the most important indices have halted in their slide, investors still haven't regained confidence -- and most observers feel that technology stocks are still generally overvalued. The techMARK 100, measuring "new-economy" stocks, closed with...
[April 18, 2000, 9:54]
First Half Review: Rambus Rules, Egghead Scrambled
News But that disclaimer should take nothing away from Rambus, the DRAM manufacturer that led all technology stocks with a 511 percent improvement in the first half of the year. The first half of 2000 was exceptionally strong for most chip stocks and...
[July 10, 2000, 14:52]
Spice Up Your Life With A Tech ISA
News A little over a year ago, the FTSE100 Index was booming on the back of big gains in technology and dot-com stocks, and many investors decided to place their money in the tech sector. This year is a good time to consider it, if your portfolio is...
[April 4, 2001, 10:17]
ANALYSIS: 10 Reasons Why Investors Should Buy Tech Stocks Now
News Here are 10 reasons why smart investors will be long on technology stocks Monday morning. Over the long haul, technology stocks are going to deliver fantastic returns this year just as they did last year and the year before that and the year before...
[April 17, 2000, 9:06]
Rate Worries Pound FTSE, Nasdaq, Dow
News Technology stocks were responsible for most of the damage, with QXL.com (quote: QXL), Psion (quote: PON), Scoot.com (quote: SCO) and Fibernet all falling over seven percent. The top ten losers in the mid cap index were all technology or technology...
[January 5, 2000, 9:46]
UK Markets Near Year Lows
News Europe's beleaguered technology, media and telecoms stocks floundered near their lowest levels this year on Thursday, as the Nasdaq index was walloped to yet another year low by more sales warnings from industry leaders.
[November 30, 2000, 15:03]
Analysis: Old Economy Takes Revenge On New Economy
News It will take that long to see when interest rates are likely to peak, to gauge how severe the slowdown will be, and to see how telecom and technology stocks react to that. Observers said old world factors such as oil prices and the weak euro will...
[October 17, 2000, 9:30]
George Soros Re-invests In Sports.com
News After incorrectly gambling that the dot-com sector would slump in 1999 -- when many stocks actually reached astronomic valuations, he then rushed to buy technology stocks shortly before the crash of Spring 2000.
[July 18, 2001, 13:53]
London Markets Rise
News Charting the progress of UK technology stocks since the start of January 1998, Nomura said "the UK's technology index could fall another 40 percent before it reaches its trend line. Technology stocks were the main gainers on pan-European indices...
[April 19, 2000, 17:05]
Micron Leads Chip-stock Revival
News It was one of several chip stocks making strong gains. Among other leading chip stocks, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) moved up 4 1/8 to 65 1/4 after telling the Street expects first-quarter sales in excess of $1bn; Rambus added 10 to 219; Altera...
[April 6, 2000, 12:45]
