Featured Articles From S&P Personal Wealth.3 NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 9, 1999-- Read the following articles exclusively at S&P Personal Wealth (http://www.personalwealth.com). Standard & Poor's is a division of the McGraw-Hill Companies: Will eToys Keep Celebrating after Christmas? http://www.personalwealth.com/story/doc.html?id=2417347 This year the Internet is making the toy business more frenetic fre·net·ic or phre·net·ic also fre·net·i·cal or phre·net·i·cal adj. Wildly excited or active; frantic; frenzied. [Middle English frenetik, from Old French frenetique than ever. In 1998, some $80 million worth of toys were sold via the Net. Through Thanksgiving of this year, Web toy sales were already twice that figure, and another $100 million-plus in sales is expected during this holiday season. With growth like that, there are more virtual purveyors of toys than ever. E-tailer eToys (Nasdaq:ETYS) seems to be entering the Christmas crunch as the consumer favorite, and analysts think that will translate into a strong performance for its stock once the market exhales after Christmas. Momentum Is Fading for Stocks http://www.personalwealth.com/story/doc.html?id=2416922 High volume and only a fractional change in prices were the case for the NASDAQ in Wednesday's session, and S&P Market Analyst Paul Cherney says that index is ripe for profit-taking. He notes that when a market has excessive volume and relatively little price change, that day's trading represents a balancing point between believers on the upside and investors/traders who are already satisfied with the gains that have been made. This Mutual Fund Can Open the IPO (Initial Public Offering) The first time a company offers shares of stock to the public. While not a computer term per se, many founders, employees and insiders of computer companies have found this acronym more exciting than any tech term they ever heard. Door for You http://www.personalwealth.com/story/doc.html?id=2415409 Did you ever wish that you had gotten in on some of this year's hottest new issues -- companies such as United Parcel Service United Parcel Service, Inc. (NYSE: UPS), commonly referred to as UPS, is the world's largest package delivery company, delivering more than 15 million packages[1] a day to 6.1 million customers in over 200 countries and territories around the world. , Sycamore Networks, and Akamai Technologies Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM) is a company that provides a distributed computing platform for global Internet content and application delivery, headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ? Most individual investors have little opportunity to buy hot IPOs Hot IPO An initial public offering that is widely followed and demanded by the market. Hot IPOs are often oversubscribed, which results in the stock price surging as soon as it is offered on the market. Notes: The late 1990s saw one of the hottest IPO markets ever. at the offering price, since underwriters allocate those precious shares mainly to institutions. But if you owned USAA USAA United Services Automobile Association USAA Urban Superintendents Association of America USAA United States Achievement Academy USAA United States Arbitration Act of 1925 USAA United States Axemen's Association USAA United States Air-Table-Hockey Association Aggressive Growth Fund (USAUX), you could have gotten a piece of those IPOs -- and many more. Here?s why. S&P Personal Wealth (www.personalwealth.com) is the award winning service created specifically for individual investors by Standard & Poor's. Investment management features include personalized portfolio recommendations; buy, sell, and hold alerts; free real-time quotes, live market commentary; and in-depth analysis and research on companies and funds from hundreds of Standard and Poor's Noun 1. Standard and Poor's - a broadly based stock market index Standard and Poor's Index analysts worldwide. S&P Personal Wealth, recently described as "...easily the best one-stop shopping site for investors.." by Money.com, can also be reached through leading on-line service partners such as AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. , Netscape, Lycos, Quicken / Excite, ABCNEWS.com, and Mindspring. |
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