Sentences with phrase «com bust»

It took until 2012, over a decade after the dot - com bust, for the metro area's unemployment rate to stay below the national average again.

Brad Barber, a professor of finance at the University of California at Davis, chalks up the relative unpopularity of stocks to leftover suspicion from the dot - com bust of the early 2000s and the financial crisis of 2008 - 2009.

As in the savings and loan crisis and the dot - com bust, the frenzied lending environment of the past few years has led us to today's subprime mess.

Unfortunately, thanks to 9/11 and the dot - com bust, Asbury Park still sputtered.

But limited new construction over the last few years in most markets should help office landlords and investors sidestep the pain they suffered earlier this decade, when new office building completions following the dot - com bust and the terrorist attacks on 9 - 11 eventually drove up vacancies nationwide to 17 % in 2003.

«It's going to be like the dot - com bust, but on a much more epic scale.»

When I think of a bubble, I think of the dot - com bust in the late nineties and the real estate crash that started in 2007.

Despite the dot - com bust soon after, the company survived when the White Mountains Insurance Group bought it.

Though employment work typically experiences an uptick in down times — such as during the dot - com bust of 2000 — because this recession has impacted industries across the board, employment work has really exploded.

There was a huge bear market during the dot com bust and despite that, the S&P 500 grew approx 220 % over that time period.

The annual total return for the S & 500 TR was 8 percent per annum for the period to November 2001, which was about ten months from the eventual bottom of the dot com bust in September 2002.

Unless you lived through 2008 — 09, when an all - equity portfolio would have been cut in half in six months, or through the dot - com bust, when an equity portfolio saw three straight years of negative returns from 2000 through 2002, you don't really know what your risk tolerance is.

Despite the carnage of the dot - com bust at the turn of the millennium and the financial crisis of 2008 — 09, most of those 30 years were extremely kind to stocks.

That indeed happened to a lot of people during the dot com bust, but nothing change with these laws and it can happen still

Similarly, when stock values plummeted between 2000 through 2002 following the dot - com bust, investment - grade bonds generated double - digit or near double - digit annual returns.

Consider in the last ten years, the overall markets have witnessed substantial losses — from the dot com bust to the current mortgage crisis and credit crunch.

This strategy gained popularity in the 1990's but destroyed many investor portfolios in the 2000 dot com bust.

However, the longest drawdown was the dot - com bust of 2000 — 2002.

I am a little older and have invested through the bear markets of early 2000's (dot com bust) and 2008 - 09 (financial crisis).

com bust was a bigger deal than any SM client will ever experience!)

The S&P 500 Index has risen more than 540 percent (not adjusted for inflation) from January 1995 to the end of 2014.1 That includes multiple recessions, the turn - of - the - century dot - com bust, the financial crisis, and the resulting Great Recession.

The bear market during the Dot - com Bust of 2000 — 2002 may have created a smaller drawdown than the bear market during the Financial Crisis of 2008 - 09, but its duration was much longer.

Note how during the last 20 years, long - term and short - term interest rates both took a dive in 2001 (in the aftermath of the dot - com bust) and 2008 (in the wake of the housing crash), and stayed depressed for a while.

Over its 20 - year history, the DRS Select Composite has weathered the two largest bear markets since World War II: the dot - com bust of 2000 — 2002 and the financial crisis of 2007 - 09.

With the dot com bust of the nineties it was pretty obvious.

It was mentioned comments above, but this moment in time really reminds me of the dot com era... and the itunes rush... and the YouTube revolution... I heard an NPR story about ten years after the dot com bust and they said one of the most interesting things about the dot com bust was that it actually hadn't gone bust.

About the time of the dot - com bust a documentary was released entitled Startup.com.

It's also worth noting that the overall total held steady for 15 years, a period spanning both the 2001 dot - com bust and the 2008 financial collapse, before dipping in 2014.

After becoming unemployed by the dot - com bust in 2000, she and her husband, Jimmy, had $ 30 a week after the rent, utilities and other basic expenses were paid.

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The firm underwent a rougher stretch during the dot - com bust in the early 2000s.

Marc Andreessen is fond of observing, most recently on this excellent podcast with Barry Ritholtz, that all of the dot - com failures turned out to be viable businesses: they were just 15 years too early (the most recent example: Chewy.com, the spiritual heir of famed dot - com bust Pets.com, acquired earlier this year for $ 3.35 billion).

The partners are old enough to remember the first dot - com bust.

However, after the dot com bust in 2011, Oregon dropped from second - fastest to sixth - slowest, and in 2011 it was the slowest, leading to its reputation as volatile.

Saddam's statue was toppled on April 9 of that year, which led to a small pullback, but stocks continued higher throughout the rest of the year as the market recovered from the dot - com bust.

It reminds me of the friend who kept investing more money into Exodus during the dot - com bust by saying, «Hey, the stock was at $ 80 before, so it must be a screaming buy at $ 20.»

During the mini dot - com bust of late 1996, a start - up I was working for literally ran out of money.

A couple of years later during the nuclear winter that fell on Silicon Valley in the wake of the dot - com bust, I started my own company.

This strategy worked so well for him — he claims a 12 % annualized return between 1997 and 2001, despite the dot - com bust — that he decided others could benefit from his approach.

After the corrective of the dot - com bust, Christofilos says, businesses now typically wait 11 years to go public.

The tech - heavy index is just 2 percent above the level reached before the dot - com bust.

Not exact matches

As CEO and chairman of Cisco, Chambers guided the company through the dot - com bubble and bust as well as the recession.

I first learned why a company needs a core purpose from Randy Komisar, who wrote the book The Monk and the Riddle, which was published just as the dot - com market went bust in 2001.

You might call it an incubator, though Griffith avoids the term because of the stink it obtained during the dot - com boom and bust (that is, as a place where investment capital is wasted on foosball tables and projects that go nowhere).

I could draw similar parallels and tell tales of willful ignorance surrounding the original dot - com boom, or the current echo boom in venture - backed startups, or even the recent gold and silver bust.

featured a panel of dot - com survivors who lived through a bust and regrouped.

The IPO market has swung back and forth since the dot - com boom in the late 1990s through the bust a few years later and on up to the most recent economic downturn, during which there were six venture capital - backed IPOs in 2008 and 12 in 2009 — compared with 86 in 2007, according to the Exit Poll report by Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association.

That Mozilla and Mitchell Baker have been heralded as the vanguard seems highly unlikely, especially considering that both came to prominence amid the excesses and bumbles of the dot - com boom and bust — specifically the browser wars.

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

I lived through the dot - com boom, bust and revival, first as a corporate lawyer at a firm that was pumping out IPOs in the late 1990s, then at a series of consumer Web companies including Excite, MySpace and eHarmony.