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Business Definition for: Market Bubble

  • a stock market phenomenon in which values in a particular sector become inflated for a short period. If the bubble bursts, stock prices in that sector collapse.

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The Dot-Com Bubble the Bush Deficits, and the U.S. Current Account
Stock market movements are usually interpreted as reflecting exogenous changes in perceived or real productivity, while budget deficits are usually understood as a mainly political decision. The paper challenges this view here and develops two alternative interpretations. Both are based on the notion that a bubble the 'dot-com' bubble) has...
Tags: Investment, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Finance, Asset Management, Bubble, Stock Market, Dot-com, National Bureau Of Economic Research, Asset
White papers 2005-08-01
Housing bubble a myth. (NAHB Opinion).(National Association of Home Builders)(Brief Article)
There has been much speculation about a possible house price "bubble" that will burst, resulting in dramatic declines in value such as those that have devastated the stock market. For the record: There is no bubble, and home values w ...
Tags: National Association of Home Builders, stock, stock market
Research articles 2002-10-01
Everyone Wants the Commodity Bubble To Be Pricked
Salman Khan submits: Crude Oil has corrected over 15% from the top. Gold, Silver, Copper, Wheat and other commodities have also retreated from their respective highs. The heavy selling witnessed in the last few days has raised concerns that the air is leaking from the Commodity bubble and that a...
Tags: Materials/Industrials
External links 2008-08-01
Dent Predicts Oil Bubble Burst, Fuels Amazon ''Short'' Best Seller; Essay Re-affirms Prediction: Stock Market Heading For New Highs
TAMPA, Fla. -- Harry S. Dent Jr.'s prediction that the oil boom has about run its course has fueled the rise of his Amazon Short entitled "Bubble After Bubble in the Ongoing Bubble Boom" to the top spot on Amazon's list of best selling Shorts.
Tags: Amazon.com Inc., BUBBLE, stock, stock market
Research articles 2005-08-22
Prediction: The Future of the USA Stock Market
This new paper attempts to construct a coherent analysis of the US stock market linking technical analysis of the type presented below to macroeconomic thinking. It combine a macroeconomic analysis of feedback processes occurring between the economy and the stock market with a technical analysis of more than two hundred...
Tags: Analysis, Stock Market, Investment, Finance
White papers 2003-08-22
Concord's Blows Bubble Into Wal-Mart - Concord Confection's Dubble Bubble - Brief Article
Wal-Mart, seeking to capitalize on in-store events, will partner with Concord Confection's Dubble Bubble next month for a bubble gum blowing contest offering the winner a $1 million top prize.
Tags: Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
Research articles 2000-03-20
Ford Adds Six Novelty Products To Its Bubble Gum Line.
FORD GUM & MACHINE CO., Inc. introduces Squirt Gun Bubble Gum, Camera Bubble Gum, Film Bubble Gum, Fan Bubble Gum, Brain Cells Bubble Gum and Puzzle Bubble Gum. Squirt guns have a SEP of S1.99 and ship 24 nine-ct displays per ...
Tags: camera, Ford Motor Co.
Research articles 2000-01-01
Mortgage risk in today's market: while homeownership is at an all-time high, home equity is at an all-time low. That's just one element of the risks building in today's mortgage market, where borrowers are highly leveraged and the volume of loans facing r
FOR MONTHS, AMERICANS have been obsessed with coverage of the housing bubble. "Don't Get Hurt When it Finally Pops," counsels a headline from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. "Housing Market Sizzles, Shows No Sign of Bubble," opine FOR MONTHS, AMERICANS have been obsessed with coverage of the...
Tags: ARM, borrower, equity, mortgage, payment, risk
Research articles 2005-10-01
The Rise In Comovement Across National Stock Markets: Market Integration Or IT Bubble?
A stylized fact in the portfolio diversification literature is that diversifying across countries is more effective than diversifying across industries in terms of risk reduction. However, with the rise in co movement across national stock markets since the mid-1990s, this no longer appears to be true. This article explore whether...
Tags: Stock, Information Technology, Stock Market, Integration, Investment, Finance
White papers 2002-09-01
Pat McGovern on The Next Tech Bubble
Pat McGovern, the head of publishing powerhouse International Data Group (disclosure: I once worked for an IDG unit), was a keynote speaker at the off-the-record Nantucket Conference this past weekend. But he gave me permission to cite his comments on the next technology bubble. McGovern's probably...
Tags: Bubble, International Data Group, Pat McGovern, Michael Fitzgerald, Internet, Productivity
Blog posts 2008-05-05
The Fed put us on path to global recession.
What caused the great Internet bubble and the bull market that accompanied it? Alan Greenspan's Federal Reserve. And when the Fed attempted to slow the economy, it burst the bubble and triggered the current slowdown. According...
Tags: Federal Reserve Board
Research articles 2001-08-13
Datacom gray market: how big a deal? OEMs and their new-sales channel partners don't like it, but careful buyers can save a bundle on network gear left behind by bankrupt bubble casualties. (Buyer's Blueprint).
Until the dot-com bubble burst, most data networking original equipment manufacturers OEMs didn't give the used equipment market much thought. It represented only a few percent of their total sales, and most of it went offshore, to out-of-the-way Until the dot-com bubble burst, most...
Tags: channel partner, Cisco Systems Inc., manufacturer, network, OEM, PBX, sales
Research articles 2003-01-01
The China Bubble
The China BubbleChina bubblehigood points brought in and excellent views from your side, howevver please note that once they open up the currency it may create impact across, they hold most of their foriegn fund across the globe and most of it in US and Europe, their earnings are spread...
Tags: China Bubble
Discussion threads 2007-11-08
Creating A Bubble Chart
A Bubble chart is a variation of a Scatter chart in which the data points are replaced with bubbles. A Bubble chart can be used instead of a Scatter chart if your data has three data series. Each data series in a chart has a unique color or pattern and...
Tags: Data Series, Chart
White papers
Wal-Mart to Serve as Venue for Dubble Bubble Qualifiers - Dubble Bubble Gum Blowing contest - Brief Article
CONCORD, ONTARIO--Dubble Bubble stages its second Dubble Bubble Gum Blowing contest May 26 at more than 2,500 Wal-Mart stores in U.S. and Canada. Youths 12-and-under qualify for final Blow Off in July in Port Richie, Fla., home of reigning champion Adam Feagley. Winner gets $10,000 savings bond and $5,000 donation...
Tags: Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
Research articles 2001-05-14
Death of Value Investing? Way Overstated
Todd Sullivan submits: A recent article said, "More than a few cynics have proclaimed value investing to be dead. Its plight hasn't been this dire since the height of the technology bubble." That bubble also led to a near decade of outsized returns for value investors. Remember that tech...
Tags: US Market
External links 2008-09-03
Houston's Apartment Market - From Katrina To Cap Rates
What is in store for the future of Houston's multifamily market was the top question on the mind's of about 100 real estate professionals. The answer is that Houston's multifamily housing bubble is inevitably going to burst. Houston's multifamily 'Housing bubble' grew by leaps and bounds after 130,000 Hurricane Katrina...
Tags: Houston, O'Connor & Associates, Real Estate, Business Operations
White papers 2006-07-13
Federal Reserve report indicates real estate market in slight pause, if not gradual downturn
Is the purported real estate bubble slowly deflating?Is the purported real estate bubble slowly deflating?
Tags: Federal Reserve Board, real estate
Research articles 2005-10-21
New arbitration claims recede, but $ record set; Market gains seen as key factor in '04 dip.(News)
Byline: Bruce Kelly NEW YORK - For the first time since the market began to drop in 2000, new securities arbitration cases declined last year. After the stock market retreat following the burst of the technology...
Tags: arbitration, NASD
Research articles 2005-01-31
Did Investors Regard Real Estate as "Safe" During The "Japanese Bubble" in the 1980s?
The paper deals with the real estate data contained in corporate balance sheets to extract an estimate of the market sentiment toward land assets during the 1985-89 periods. It finds that the systematic risk of manufacturing companies increased with their real estate holdings but not with holdings of other balance...
Tags: Investor, Business Operations, Real Estate
White papers 2004-11-01
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