Word: analyst
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...help marveling at Merrill Lynch star Internet analyst Henry Blodget. Bullish through a five-month bloodletting, he decided last week to downgrade his opinion on 11 onetime highflyers, including Doubleclick, eBay and eToys. In the case of eToys, the stock had dropped 95%. Losing any more, I suppose, would be just too much to bear. So Blodget stepped up with his gutsy downgrade while investors everywhere, in spirit, collectively asked, Who needs analysts anyway...
...while not connected to the Net. That includes simple word processing like constructing drafts or writing in a diary. The most far-reaching programs keep a log of every letter you type and delete. "Scanning for key words and websites is not rocket science," says Jonathan Penn, analyst at Giga Information Group, an e-business advisory firm in Cambridge, Mass. "We're talking about something that's soon going to approach a billion-dollar market...
...resistance on the upside and support on the downside. Is the pennant symmetrical, ascending or descending? Let them quibble. Suffice to note that as the range narrows, we get closer to declaring a winner in the bull-bear tug-of-war. A textbook reading, says Richard McCabe, chief market analyst at Merrill Lynch, is that by late August, the pattern will be broken, the Dow's new direction evident...
...otherwise die slowly from traps or poison. The V.H.A.'s president, Ned Kalbfleish, 50, says his critics are hypocrites who don't mind trapping mice or spraying roaches and yet threaten him with violence for stalking a creature he calls "the prairie rat." A Vietnam veteran and computer-systems analyst, Kalbfleish insists no amount of shooting can wipe out thriving prairie-dog populations, and he brands as "bad science" the Federal Government's efforts to list the creature as endangered...
...Community Intelligence Fund isn't quite so democratic as the name implies. Says Morningstar mutual-fund analyst Russ Kinnel: "The name is kind of a smoke screen." Ultimately the fund's management team buys just a fraction of the thousands of picks tipsters submit. The choices are based on quantitative analysis, a computer model to screen stocks. If you want a quant fund, Kinnel suggests looking at more established names like Fidelity Disciplined Equity, the Numeric Investors family of funds or veteran manager John Bogle Jr.'s new Bogle Small Growth fund...