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Creating a new search engine is a tremendous risk at this stage because it's remarkably expensive to build and market one that has any chance in the mass market. To make the proposition harder, not only do people prefer Google to other products, but also most people are not able to tell whether a search product coming to market now is better. Good is so excellent that it is not good anymore...
...financials, mostly over the last four to six weeks, is primarily a sigh of relief. To be more precise, it's about institutional investors repositioning themselves in these stocks. Last year there was a mass exodus from financial stocks, and not just the banks. There was just too much risk, and it was too difficult to navigate through the financial sector to find stocks that didn't have subprime risk or related issues. Even the asset managers got hit by withdrawals and redemptions...
This year, financial-sector earnings probably troughed in the first quarter, so the risk becomes don't be too underweight. It takes a huge swing to go from not owning any financial stocks to being market weight in financial stocks. Big investors are scrambling to catch up. (Read "The Outlook for Stocks is Decidedly ... Mixed...
What's the biggest risk to a continued rise in bank stocks? There are three risks: first, that credit spreads widen again and go back up to historic highs; second, that the employment situation, on a relative basis, is not improving and we see an acceleration in the rate of weekly jobless claims; third, if housing takes another big move to the downside...
...newly discovered autism-risk gene, identified by authors as CACNA1G, is more common in boys than in girls (why that's so is still not clear), and the authors suggest it plays a role in boys' increased risk of the developmental disorder. CACNA1G, which sits on chromosome 17, amid other genes that have been previously linked to autism, is responsible for regulating the flow of calcium into and out of cells. Nerve cells in the brain rely on calcium to become activated, and research suggests that imbalances in the mineral can result in the overstimulation of neural connections and create...