Sentences with phrase «as the tech bubble»

Nortel required Orr to stay as a senior executive just as the tech bubble was deflating.

As the tech bubble gained momentum, it was obvious that fewer and fewer stocks were participating in the rally.

Important work like Mauboussin's and others was thrust to the sidelines as the tech bubble consumed the hearts and minds of so many investors.

In 2000, as the tech bubble was peaking, Nobel laureate Franco Modigliani observed that the late stages of a bubble can be «rational» in a certain sense, provided that investors are inclined to self - reinforcing behavior.

While many are debating the future of Bitcoin as a tech bubble versus a viable long - term currency, it's likely at least some of the technology created by Bitcoin is here to stay.

The patent sale is a last gasp for Nortel, which was once Canada's biggest company by market capitalization before imploding as the tech bubble burst.

Not exact matches

As the rest of the country worries about the slow pace of economic recovery, the tech world frets about whether there's a new start - up bubble.

At the same time, Burry, who made a fortune in last decade's financial crisis by betting that the housing bubble would burst, is also gaining a following north of Hollywood, as a Silicon Valley tech investor.

You don't invest in tech companies in general -; should we take that as a sign of a start - up bubble?

As the world suffers another food crisis, some industry watchers think farmland could follow tech and real estate to become the next big bubble.

The investor points to Facebook as an example of how tech company valuations can skyrocket postvaluation — and makes the case that if anyone is in a bubble, it's the traditional incumbent companies, ripe for disruption.

You'll note the government chose 2001, after the giant tech bubble of the late 1990s had imploded, as its starting point, thereby overlooking a period when the biggest companies in the land were all tech firms.

With huge volumes of venture capital sloshing around, and the increasing proliferation of billion - dollar - plus startups, known as unicorns, plenty of people think there's a tech bubble.

For example, large - cap companies dominated during the tech bubble of the 1990s, as investors gravitated toward large - cap tech stocks such as Microsoft, Cisco and AOL Time Warner.

During the dotcom bubble of the late 1990s, dozens of tech startups emerged that had no viable business plans, no products or services ready to bring to market, and in many cases nothing more than a name (usually something tech - sounding with «com» or «net» as a suffix).

As a result there was actually a relatively low rate of client redemptions, especially relative to the tech bubble of 2000, and importantly, clients participated in the subsequent increase in the value of their investment portfolios by staying invested as markets recovereAs a result there was actually a relatively low rate of client redemptions, especially relative to the tech bubble of 2000, and importantly, clients participated in the subsequent increase in the value of their investment portfolios by staying invested as markets recovereas markets recovered.

Many market analysts and investors have called the recent melt - up in technology stocks as the equivalent of a Tech Bubble 2.0.

As competing cryptocurrencies cropped up, so too did the analogies to the 1990s tech bubble and bust.

Rapid share price growth and high valuations based on standard metrics, such as price / earnings ratio or price / sales, characterize a tech bubble.

Of course, there was much talk in the late 1990s about the possible coming tech bust - Tech Bubble 1.0 - as the sector's shares escalated to lofty heights, until they finally crastech bust - Tech Bubble 1.0 - as the sector's shares escalated to lofty heights, until they finally crasTech Bubble 1.0 - as the sector's shares escalated to lofty heights, until they finally crashed.

The irony is that even as they bring new cash into the tech world, super angels might actually be helping to deflate an incipient startup bubble.

Stocks aren't as expensive right now as they were ahead of the tech bubble bursting.

Firstly, as it wades through Bloomstran's perceptions of the market, it compares the similarities between the tech bubble and today, provides insights into the history of Fed hikes, delves into the evolving status of central bank balance sheets, ponders the implications of the transition away from quantitative easing, and provides metrics delineating the Semper Augustus portfolio with the S&P 500.

As was the case during the tech bubble and the housing bubble, disagreement is what makes markets, and we respect that others have different views.

This encourages malinvestment and financial distortions that then collapse, as we saw following the tech and housing bubbles.

Jon Hilsenrath noted the seeming irony: «In August 1999, as the tech - stock bubble was worsening, Alan Greenspan stood before central - banking colleagues in Jackson Hole, Wyo., and argued it wasn't the central bank's job to prevent asset bubbles.

Fears of a debt bubble have been as loud — or louder — than fears of a tech bubble or a biotech bubble.

«I think that Silicon Valley as a whole, or that the venture - capital community or startup community, is taking on an excessive amount of risk right now — unprecedented since» 99,» said Bill Gurley, a partner at Benchmark, referring to the last tech bubble.

As the tech and housing bubbles burst, Oregon stumbled from an above - to below - average spending state.

The economy was running smoothly, so state legislators spent as if there were not going to be tech or housing bubbles looming in the next decade.

As an example, I was one of the few investors that I knew that didn't take some losses from the tech bubble popping.

The tech bubble created a culture of greed, and as an unintentional consequence, it created a kind of class warfare.

Many who are just now getting involved in the marijuana industry will find it as hard to pick winners as it was for investors leading up to the dotcom tech bubble.

As was the case during the tech bubble and the housing bubble, disagreement is what makes markets, and we respect that others have different views.

In June 2017, analysts in firms such as Goldman Sachs and UBS stated that the high valuations and unusual low volatility attached to these stocks are similar to tech stocks which crashed after the tech bubble burst in 2000.

Adhering to the 15 P / E valuation reference during the tech bubble would have avoided years of poor performance as price moved into alignment.

Because of that, the Baa index of Moody's may lag longer than ordinary versus Fed funds... but Fed policy has been called impotent before, and usually just before it shows its bite, as in the tech bubble of 2000, or the liquidity rally of spring 2003.

The level of connectivity in devices is the reason why this period of technological disruption is different from prior periods such as the 1990s tech bubble.

As you can see, Intel still hasn't made it back to the tech bubble peak.

As in the tech bubble, there were a number of notable commentators warning, but no one listens during the self - reinforcing cycle of the boom.

Some see the 2010 - 2011 collapse of the clean tech bubble as evidence that sustainable innovation is categorically risky.

In 2008, forces that had been bubbling below the surface, long suppressed by the 25 - year bull market for legal services, emerged to accelerate fundamental change akin to those that follow deregulation, most notably, out - of - category competition, such as law firms are seeing from legal - tech startups, «offshoring,» and other consultancies, and a decline in pricing power.

Having said that, the validity of a story, at the end of the day, can't justify the insane gains that we are experiencing currently, just as the validity of the dot - com story didn't justify the lofty valuations of basically non-existent business during the late phase of the tech - bubble.

Since mid-1926 it has happened only six percent of the time — and the two most prominent examples were during the 1929 market bubble that ended with «Black Tuesday» and the dot - com bubble of the late 1990s that, as we saw again this year, was dominated by info tech stocks.

I hope their burn rate isn't too high because future rounds may not be as easy to get if we're in a tech bubble as many people (me) think.

The yield spread (shown in grey) was extraordinarily high — in fact, it was positive at +0.51 percent — at the end of 1999, a time much like today when REITs had become «overlooked and undervalued» as the tech stock bubble inflated relentlessly.