Happy Birthday, Mr. Bear

The Daily Reckoning

Weekend Edition

March 10-11, 2001

Waterford, Ireland

By Addison Wiggin

MARKET REVIEW: Happy Birthday, Mr. Bear

The Nasdaq celebrates the one year anniversary of it’s peak today – down 57%. On March 10, 2000 the Nasdaq closed at 5048…Yesterday, the Nasdaq fell 115 to 2052 – its lowest close since Dec. 17, 1998.

The Nasdaq’s 57% plunge has wiped out some $40,000 dollars per US family.

The ‘burn rate’ is having its effect on the stock buying public at large. Last month, investors took $4.6 billion more out of mutual funds than they put in. That’s the first full-month net outflow since August 1998. (Reuters)

On mixed news about the economy and earnings, the Dow also shed 213 points Friday to close at 10,644, ending five consecutive days of positive gains. The early week rally helped the Dow close up 178 for the week. The S& P 500 dropped 31 for the day to 1233, ending the week all but even.

Labor Dept. quants also reported that 135,000 new jobs were added in February, almost double what analysts had expected. That figure casts doubt on the likelihood of continued rate cuts from the Fed later this month.

Markets Around The World: Germany, Bratain and France all lost a bit more than 1%. the Nikkei in Tokyo dipped another 0.2%…

The Russell 2000 at 473, lost 3 for the week.

ADD’L PRICES FOR THE WEEK: Gold Strong, Dollar Holds Its Own

Gold: $271 up $7 for the week…

Crude Oil: $28.01 up a little

Natural Gas: $5.07 down a little

CRB Index: 222 –

Dollar Index: 111 –

The Euro: $.93 –

British Pound: $1.46 –

Japanese Yen: $.83 down 1

FLOTSAM AND JETSAM: In case you didn’t get it…

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Addison Wiggin,

The Daily Reckoning

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