Will The Dow Pop The Web Bubble?
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Even a flat market could be bad news for the new tech boom.
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With zero fanfare, Internet stocks are emerging as some of the market leaders this year. Even while the Dow Jones industrial average and Standard &amp; Poor&#39;s 500 notched new highs last week, both are left behind by even stronger performances of Internet stocks that investors have loved to hate since the dot-com implosion of 2000.
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Internet stocks are as volatile as ever, with growth-starved investors flocking to the sector in the hope they've bought shares in the next online blue chip.
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Wall Street is still on course to end  2006 in the plus column, but it's too early to pop the  champagne corks. Investors will comb through next week's jobs  report for November and other data to see if the U.S. economy  and corporate profits will be able to withstand the fallout  from a slowdown in housing and the dollar's slide.
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IT has never been able to prove it's true value to the business, and as such it is treated as a cost center, which is the first thing to get cut in poorly run companies. But with Web 2.0 booming, all the assumptions that you hold about IT should be put on notice: change is in the air. Web 2.0 companies have had to grow their own technology for economic functionality. Free means crap right? Wrong. How many of you keep Yahoo! Mail running on your BlackBerry's along with Exchange because you know Exchange will be down sooner or later?
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Wall Street was set for a soft start on  Friday as rosy results from Internet search engine Google  GOOG.O fails to dispel disappointment over software giant  Microsoft's MSFT.O downbeat outlook.
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The price of Google shares soared Friday, evoking memories of the Internet bubble among some Wall street analysts and traders.
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Is Wall Street's rapid move toward more electronic trading to blame for Tuesday's stock plunge?
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Dow Jones pays more than $500 million for Web-based Marketwatch.
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IF stock prices are supposed to reflect the underlying health of the economy, itâs easy to see why the market is off to such a tough start this year. Wall Street is worried that the economy is headed for its first recession in six years, so itâs only natural that investors are a little spooked.
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A win by Democratic challenger John Kerry in next week&#39;s US presidential election may give stocks a lift, if history is any guide.
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Will the economy make a soft landing, or will it hit the ground hard?
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In the 1990s, there was the dot-com boom. Now, there's the Iraq bubble.
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Will the market continue its recent rally, or revert back to its summertime slump?
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MarketWatch is sold for $500 million and Slate is next. Will there be a spate of other sites on the block? Probably, but the most fevered M & #038;A activity will be among blogs. Commentary by Adam L. Penenberg.
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News Corp.'s purchase of Dow Jones may tear down the wall at WSJ.com.
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A computer glitch triggered a sudden plunge in the Dow Jones industrial average at mid-afternoon Tuesday, turning an already bad day in stocks into a head-turning spectacle.