Posts Tagged ‘Bubble’

Put a cork in the Internet bubble talk — for now (AP)

FILE - In this file photo taken June 15, 2011, Joe Kennedy, third from left, CEO & President, and Tim Westergren, fourth from left, Chief Strategy Officer & Founder, of Pandora internet radio, ring the NYSE opening bell to celebrate their company's IPO at the New York Stock Exchange. Here’s something to keep in mind for those worried that we’re in another tech stock bubble: We’re still nowhere close to the giddy days of the late 1990s and early 2000 when investors bought stocks as impulsively as lottery tickets. Technology stocks are trading at their cheapest prices in more than nine years.  (AP Photo/Richard Drew, file)AP – It’s starting to feel like a 1999 flashback. Internet companies — some of them profitable, some not — sense a golden opportunity and are lining up to go public this year.


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After historic gains, are stocks nearing a bubble? (AP)

Specialist Henry Becker, foreground center, directs trades in share of MetLife on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Thursday, March 3, 2011. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)AP – Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke fielded the usual questions about inflation, tax cuts and government debt during a trip to Congress last week. Then a new question popped up: Is the Fed creating another bubble in stock prices?


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Underground and in a bubble: miners denied smokes, booze and news

The 33 trapped miners in Chile got their first hot meal in weeks, but booze and smokes will have to wait.

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APNewsBreak: Bubble of methane triggered rig blast (AP)

The containment  vessel is lowered into the Gulf of Mexico at the site of the Deepwater Horizon rig collapse, Thursday, May 6, 2010.  (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP – The deadly blowout of an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico was triggered by a bubble of methane gas that escaped from the well and shot up the drill column, expanding quickly as it burst through several seals and barriers before exploding, according to interviews with rig workers conducted during BP’s internal investigation.


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