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First it was tulips, then it was shares in the South Sea Company. Now the dot. coms have been added to that dubious hall of fame
First it was tulips, then it was shares in the South Sea Company. Now the dot. coms have been added to that dubious hall of fame
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2010-01-18
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First it was tulips, then it was shares in the South Sea Company. Now the dot. coms have been added to that dubious hall of fame-the problems in the financial markets.
Yesterday (Fri) yet another high profile dot.com business-Letsbuyit-announced it had run into difficulties.
The madness for technology stocks in 2000 had all the ingredients that investors knew little about, greed for money, an economy firing on all cylinders, some dashing young entrepreneurs andeven the rules of business had been rewritten.
Yet what it did not have was the ability to rewrite the rules of economics. When the historians come to write the story of the dot. com bubble, their epitaph will be the same as that London in 1720 or Wall Street in 1929: it wasn’t different this time. In vain did the Cassandra foretell that it would all end in tears, that there were Simply too many companies chasing too little revenue, and that for the stock market valuations of the dot.coms to be justified every person on earth would have to be surfing the net 24 hours a day with a mobile phone clamped to each ear.
Most dot.coins were destined to be squeezed by cut-throat competition. Reality has now set in. Shares in dot.com start-ups that were changing hands for hundreds of dollars each at the height of the speculative fever are now virtually worthless. Did anybody know or care what Engage Inc was actually involved in, let alone have any idea of its likely earnings potential when it was trading at US dollar 95 a share earlier this year. They probably took a closer look as the shares fell to just over US dollar 1 this month.
However, there was little analysis of this sort as the year dawned with the US economy booming, fears of a millennium bug meltdown and the merger between America Online, the world’s biggest internet services provider, and Time Warner, one of biggest traditional media companies, symbolizes the unstoppable force of the "new example".
The combination appeared to mark the coming of age of online upstarts as AOL had all the potential, but Time Warner was making all the money.
Having risen a record-breaking 88% in 1999, the Nasdaq composite index of technology companies rallied even higher in the first three months of 2000. On March 10, the index reached a record high of 5048. In the dying weeks of the year, it is trading at less than half this level. With the bubble burst and investor confidence in tatters, the index has recorded its worst ever annual performance in its 29-year history. The previous low of a 35% decline was recorded during the oil crisis of 1974.
This year’s bear market began in April, when the Nasdaq suffered four of its worst ever points losses in quick succession. Within 51 trading days, US dollar 2,400bn had been wiped from the technology-driven stock market.
The rate of company closures is still accelerating, according to a report published by Webmergers, an online consultancy. In the first 11 months of the year, 130 internet companies folded with about 8,000 job losses.
In spite of signs that the stock market madness has come to an end, most analysts believe the internet will make a lasting impact on business and the economy.
Andy Grove, chairman of Intel, confidently predicted last year: "There won’t be any internet companies [within a few years]. All companies will be internet companies, or they will be dead." This is almost certainly true. The Wall Street crash of 1929 did not mean the end of radio or prevent the spread of the motor car. But a word of warning. In real terms, the S&P composite index did not regain its level of September 1929 until December 1958.
From the passage, we can see the implication the_____.
选项
A、the stock market madness has ceased
B、most analysts believe the internet will make short impact on business and the economy
C、after a long period of time the internet finally will gain its fame and get profits
D、cut-throat competition is the role of the internet
答案
C
解析
本文虽然在开头提到了网络公司面临一些困难,但是通过逐步论证,从市场经济角度分析了其前景。故选C。
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