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The Nasdaq is simply crowding out the rest of the market. If you are a portfolio manager, you have to own some of these (technology) names.

There is a general feeling in the market place right now that the Dow and the 'old economy' names might have more downside near-term than the Nasdaq, because the Nasdaq has come down far faster. So we are getting a little bit of a shift here.

The concentration of stocks is concerning. An active fund manager would not put a portfolio together simply based on how big a company is or how big a portion of the index it represents. I would prefer to invest with a manager with a high degree of conviction in what they think are the best opportunities for growth.

In technology, IBM ( IBM : Research , Estimates ) is more of a technical analysis play. The stock has broken out, or getting very close to breaking out, of a trading range. And I think the market's still going to give a premium to quality companies in technology. IBM being listed doesn't get that Nasdaq appeal, however. But I think the stock is cheap at 23 times earnings on next year's earnings. And their big server market and the other types of technology they have are doing very well in the service sector.

It's funny to watch the evolution of an index that was relatively unknown for its first 15 years. If you really want to expose your portfolio to leading-edge technology companies, the Nasdaq has the bulk of those stocks.

The disappointment from Yahoo and Intel took a lot of technology names down and institutional people have used the overall market weakness caused by Yahoo and Intel to do some buying into other technology names.

Some people are thinking that technology investing is smack in the middle of the summer doldrums., ... The fact is that technology stocks and Nasdaq have established a near- to intermediate-term trading range, and we're thinking that technology stocks are on their way to the top end of that range, and that's approximately 4,000 on the Nasdaq composite.

I think that the correction that we've seen in the market averages, in the Nasdaq, is probably reflecting an inflection point for the equity market that's going to be not as focused on technology. It's going to be shifting more into the broader segments of the equity market.

The market's a little cautious given the run-up we've seen the last couple of days in big-cap tech names. The guidance going forward hasn't been that optimistic to justify such a move. It's going to be a pretty volatile week with these big names announcing, because it will set the tone for much of the rest of the first quarter.

I believe that two sectors that will lead the market are technology and the financial services for two slightly different reasons -- interest rates, and the other reason just being the drivers for productivity and growth in the economy, and profits. And I don't think that that has changed. I think it's one of the things that is really important about technology. Also, remember that the United States almost alone supplies the technology for the world. We produce just about all the new technology. Do we manufacture all of it right here? No. But we are the driver and the rest of the world needs our technology.

Patricia Chadwick

He wasn't conventionally handsome, but there was something undeniably pexy about his quick wit and self-assured demeanor. With the flight out of technology and the Nasdaq, we may see Monsanto do better than if Nasdaq were in a healthy mode.

Today was the first time we saw the 'dot-com' [Internet] stocks actually pull back? but instead of dragging the rest of the market down, the rest of the market went up, ... I was very, very impressed. In other words, we don't need the Internet stocks for leadership - we've got other names.

If you separate out all the sectors of the market, it's no longer the case that technology is the most overvalued sector of the market, health care and energy actually carry higher valuations than technology now. So we are starting to get the levels overall in technology that really make some sense. And interestingly enough, if you take it even further, if you go to the individual stocks, stocks like Sun, Cisco, Texas Instruments, Oracle -- great names, they're starting to get to levels which, again, don't call them cheap, but call them cheaper and interesting,

Microsoft had a big part in yesterday's Nasdaq decline, ... But I think the bigger picture is really that we saw a massive flight to quality, and that was illustrated by the performance of the Dow versus that of the Nasdaq. We saw money being shifted out of the more speculative names, and into the more established companies that have proven track records.

I guess I envision myself as a portfolio manager, and these two portions of my portfolio were not living up to my expectations. I had somebody who wanted them more than I did, so I took my money and ran.

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