dot com bubble

Shelling out millions of dollars for a Super Bowl commercial can be a risky move. Just ask the 14 companies with dot com in their name how things turned out after being featured in Super Bowl ads in 2000. What Happened: Super Bowl XXXIV, which featured the St. Louis Rams and Tennessee Titans, will...

Influential economist Peter Schiff called Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) the biggest bubble ever on Monday, surpassing even the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s. What Happened: Schiff, a staunch Bitcoin critic, expressed his views on the soaring valuation of the world’s leading...

Nvidia Corp. (NASDAQ:NVDA) has emerged as the world’s most valuable listed company, driven by the demand for its artificial intelligence chips, reminiscent of the dot-com boom. What Happened: Nvidia has ascended to the top spot, leading a tech boom that mirrors the dot-com era, Wall Street...

At the dawn of the 21st century, financial markets were gripped by an unprecedented euphoria surrounding tech stocks. This period, often referred to as the dot-com bubble, saw a meteoric rise in the valuation of companies tied to the burgeoning internet industry. Investors, captivated by the...

Renowned investor Jeffrey Gundlach has issued a stark warning, drawing parallels between the current market situation and the infamous dot-com and housing bubbles. He predicts that this “euphoria” will soon come to an end, leading to a recession by this summer. What Happened: Gundlach,...

Wall Street analyst Ed Yardeni is drawing parallels between Nvidia Corp.‘s (NASDAQ:NVDA) current stock market rally and Cisco Systems Inc.‘s (NASDAQ:CSCO) meteoric ascent during the 1990s tech bubble. Nvidia could potentially soar even higher before facing any risk of a downturn—if...

Each day, Benzinga takes a look back at a notable market-related moment that occurred on this date. What Happened? On this day in 1999, the Nasdaq reached 3,000 for the first time. Where The Market Was: The Dow finished the day at 10,609.06. The S&P 500 finished at 1,354.93. What Else Was Going...

Billionaire investor and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban on Wednesday told CNBC that the recent surge in stock valuation isn't reminiscent of the 1990s dot-com boom. A Different Scenario, Cuban Says "Interest rates were a lot different back then," Cuban said. "And you saw a lot...

By the end of this week, the post-Financial Crisis bull market will likely become the second longest bull market in history. It has now been 2,603 days since the S&P bottomed back in 2009. In that time, the market has surged an astonishing 209 percent. Going into this week, the current bull...

"An intimate documentary about a former Goldman Sachs analyst and his high school buddy starting up their internet business before the dot com bubble and through the crash." That's how one Reddit user describes Startup.com, the 2001 documentary that follows the story of govWorks,...

It's easy for any trader keeping up with the daily moves of certain stocks and watching short-term catalysts to lose sight of the big picture. That’s why it’s important to take a step back from time to time and remember exactly what’s going on from a historical perspective....