ADVISORY/Americans Find Investing More and More Dot-Complex.Business Editors ADVISORY...for Monday Monday: see week. (June June: see month. 26) --(BUSINESS WIRE) New Survey Finds that Hype, Volatility Volatility 1. A statistical measure of the tendency of a market or security to rise or fall sharply within a period of time. 2. A variable in option pricing formulas that denotes the extent to which the return of the underlying asset will fluctuate between now and the and the Dot-Com (1) Refers to the period (dot) followed by the abbreviation of the commercial domain (.com) at the end of an Internet address. Since the .com domain is so widely used, the Internet became known as the "dot-com" world, and dot-com companies are those formed to offer services or Revolution Are Leaving Americans Conflicted -- Despite Their Confidence in Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the Companies and the Fundamentals of the Economy
- While nearly half (49%) of Americans say it's more important
now than before to follow the economy, 82% of Americans say
they've never heard or read about the "New Economy".
- Nearly two thirds (62%) of Americans say the best way to make
money is to invest in technology; yet 63% say that if they had
extra money they would not invest in technology or Internet
stocks.
- While Americans are cautiously optimistic about the economy,
they are downright bullish on Greenspan: More than half of
those who are aware of Alan Greenspan say the economy will
remain strong while he is at the Fed.
- Nearly three quarters (74%) of Americans say there is too much
hype in the media about people getting rich quick in the stock
market.
- On average, Americans expect a whopping 21.7% annual return on
their investments; however, 48% of Americans admit they don't
know what their own returns really are.
- Nearly half (48%) of investors say they have too little
information to make good investment decisions.
WHAT: Investing in a Dot-com World, a new survey from Scudder
Kemper Investments. The survey probes the American public's
outlook on the New Economy and today's investment environment.
WHEN: Monday, June 26th (Official Release Date)
WHO: Scudder Kemper Investments spokespeople include:
- Dr. Robert J. Froehlich, Vice Chairman, Kemper Funds Group and
Managing Director, Scudder Kemper Investments
- Ted Truscott, Co-Director of Global Equity Group and Managing
Director, Scudder Kemper Investments
- Dianne Michael, Senior Vice President, Scudder Kemper
Investments
- Joan Wood, Senior Vice President, Scudder Kemper Investments
For a press kit, copy of the survey or to arrange a discussion, contact: Laura Trumble, Scudder Scudder, a surname, may refer to: People
METHODOLOGY: Survey of 1,300 adult Americans, representing both the American American, river, 30 mi (48 km) long, rising in N central Calif. in the Sierra Nevada and flowing SW into the Sacramento River at Sacramento. The discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill (see Sutter, John Augustus) along the river in 1848 led to the California gold rush of public at large and American investors with a margin of error of +/- 2.7 percentage points. |
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