« Unemployment Rates By State | Main | Gold, Oil, and Oil Stocks »
Tuesday
Mar292011

Another Technology Bubble?

DateTuesday, March 29, 2011 at 10:34AM

The valuations recently placed on private companies like Facebook, Groupon and Zynga have caused some to use the word "bubble" to describe what's currently going on in the tech world.  Below are charts of the Nasdaq 100 index and the number of US IPOs by month going back to the start of the 1990s.  Here you can see what the last tech bubble looked like compared to what's currently going on in at least the publicly traded tech world.  We realize that bubbles can come in all shapes and sizes, but the term may be getting thrown out a little too prematurely these days.      

 

CommentPost a Comment | | | Print ArticlePrint Article |
in

Reader Comments

There are no comments for this journal entry. To create a new comment, use the form below.

PostPost a New Comment

Enter your information below to add a new comment.

My response is on my own website »
Author Email (optional):
Author URL (optional):
Post:
 
Some HTML allowed: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <code> <em> <i> <strike> <strong>
Alert
Comment Sent to Moderator
Due to the inordinate amount of spam comments posted on our site recently, we are now forced to approve comments before they are posted on the website. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

Notify me of follow-up comments via email.