Sentences with phrase «com bubble years»

And it was briefly a big hit on the stock market during the dot - com bubble years.

Not exact matches

What's far less certain, of course, is whether the go - go members of the next Canadian establishment will be exposed to the sort of tech bubble meltdown that waylaid a generation of dot - com entrepreneurs 15 years ago.

The asset class known as venture capital has been swirling around the drain since the dot - com bubble burst ten years ago.

The entire U.S. venture industry invested $ 84 billion last year, a 22 percent increase from the prior year and the most for any year since the dot - com bubble of the early 2000s, according to the National Venture Capital Association.

For example, we talk about the dot - com bubble in 2000, but that was 18 years ago.

On March 28, after a seven - year investigation, the RCMP's commercial crime section filed criminal charges against three of the firm's principals: former CEO Daniel Potter, who built the software developer into a TSE - listed firm with a market value of $ 100 million at the height of the dot - com bubble; Halifax securities lawyer Blois Colpitts, 48, a former director and the firm's legal adviser; and Bruce Elliott Clarke, a 65 - year - old former broker with National Bank Financial.

Russ Lombardo, a sales consultant based in Cary, North Carolina, was working with a company about a decade ago (during the dot - com bubble) when the company's CEO made an announcement to his employees: «He said there was no reason we couldn't do 70 percent growth for the next two years,» Lombardo recalls.

So was pets.com, which was also a year away from going defunct as a result of the dot - com bubble bust.

Noting that the value of tech stocks at the height of the dot - com bubble was many times the size of the current cryptocurrency market (with a total value of about $ 519 billion), Citi's report conceded that it may be a while before the crypto bubble bursts: «Bubbles can build in plain sight, be duly identified, and prove highly durable for a period measured in years.»

Over the last ten years, it's trailed growth to the largest extent since the inflating of the dot - com bubble.

The 13 year old bull market was over with a big bang when the internet and dot com bubble burst.

With the Nasdaq crossing the 5,000 threshold for the first time since the dot - com boom and the broader equity bull market entering its seventh year, many investors are once again anxious that stocks are in a bubble.

Of course, this turned out to be at the top of the dot - com bubble in the year 2000.

Previous tightening cycles — for instance, the mid-1980s energy bust and the bursting dot - com bubble in the late - 1990s — rolled through the economy over five years or so.

The Nasdaq Composite is poised to cross 4000 for the first time in 13 years, an event that is sure to prompt comparisons to the dot - com bubble.

Finally the real New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) as a percentage of US GDP rose to new highs — going over the previous high set on March 2000, more than 15 years ago when the dot - com bubble was at peak!

NEW YORK / SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)- Twitter Inc shares jumped 73 percent in a frenzied trading debut that drove the seven - year - old company's market value to around $ 25 billion and evoked the heady days of the dot - com bubble.

While no one knows for certain, we do know that the over 1600 % price increase year - to - date surpasses many other previous bubbles, such as the dot - com bubble of the late 1990s, and the recent U.S. housing market bubble.

During his short but successful publishing career, Mark Malatesta also spent several years as Marketing & Licensing Manager of Blue Mountain Arts (the book and gift publisher that invented e-greetings, then sold their e-card division for close to $ 1 billion at the height of the dot com bubble).

In addition to the five years he spent as a literary agent, Mark Malatesta also spent several years as the Marketing & Licensing Manager of Blue Mountain Arts (the book and gift publisher that invented e-greetings, then sold their e-card division for close to $ 1 billion at the height of the dot com bubble).

Mark also spent several years as Marketing & Licensing Manager of Blue Mountain Arts (the book and gift publisher that invented e-greetings, then sold their e-card division for close to $ 1 billion at the height of the dot com bubble).

But not long after Browne introduced the Permanent Portfolio, stocks began a charging bull market that would last for some 18 years, until the dot - com bubble burst in 2000.

Witness the fact that it took more than three years after Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan's famous 1996 «irrational exuberance» speech for an inflated stock market to finally tumble, signaling the end of the dot - com bubble.

Of course, this turned out to be at the top of the dot - com bubble in the year 2000.

The year 1999 was a particularly unfavourable date to retire: many stocks were trading at extremely high levels during the dot - com bubble, and the bear market that followed was a prime example of an unlucky sequence of returns.

The poor value investor who got out of the stock market in the mid-90s as the earnings yield hit hit lows unseen since the late 60s — almost 25 years prior — would have sat out much of the fantastic returns generated by the dot - com bubble.

During the dot - com bubble, the cyclically - adjusted earnings yield of the market fell to a little over 2 % while 30 - year Treasury Inflation - Protected Securities yielded over 4 %.

With the Nasdaq crossing the 5,000 threshold for the first time since the dot - com boom and the broader equity bull market entering its seventh year, many investors are once again anxious that stocks are in a bubble.

Well, again I fail to understand the alarm: The S&P today actually sports an 18.8 forward P / E, a mere 9 % premium to the average 17.2 forward P / E over the last 20 years (which included the dot - com bubble, but also the financial crisis).

The 13 year old bull market was over with a big bang when the internet and dot com bubble burst.

Generation X is the most anxious about retirement by far, having weathered the collapse of the dot - com bubble in the early 2000s and the 2008 financial meltdown, as well as sluggish wage growth during their formative adult years.

In 1999 when the dot - com bubble got bigger and bigger, the NASDAQ was up over 85 percent... FOR THE YEAR.

And this phase may last longer than you think... check your dot - com history: Even four years before the Mar - 2000 peak, first day 100 % + IPO premiums were not unusual, while 400 - 600 % premiums were a regular feature of the bubble for a full one / two years before it finally started deflating.

Now, I'm not saying that there is never a time to sit on cash, but decisions like that are typically limited to times where valuations are utterly nuts, like 1964 - 5, 1968, 1972, 1999 - 2000 — basically parts of the go - go years and the dot - com bubble.

Aside from one quarter during the go - go years (1968), the only period with lower anticipated returns was during the dot - com bubble.

Going a back a little further, the aftermath of the dot - com bubble meant the Global Couch Potato returned -3.2 % annually for the three years ending in 2002.

The dot - com bubble bankrupted many investors in 2000 and the pain lingered until this year.

Many people know of the Dot - com bubble of the 2000's and the gold rush of the hundreds of years back.

In Moas's view, the 800 cryptocurrencies that are now trading are analogous to the 800 stocks that were available on the Nasdaq at the height of the dot - com bubble nearly 20 years ago.

«The changes to come over the next 10 years will be less visible than the global financial crisis or the bursting of the dot - com bubble — and yet their impact on banking's economics and even fundamental business models will be much more substantial,» McKinsey claims.

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.