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Everyone knows--or at least we're supposed to know--that the market for U.S. stocks today is dominated by momentum traders, day traders, and technical traders, none of whom are paying attention to the underlying fundamentals of the companies whose shares they're buying and selling, and all of whom are putting the U.S. economy at risk by converting the stock market into an elaborate shell game/pyramid scheme.
Needless to say, most institutions are not buying stock in 500-share lots, so that means that a great deal of the action today was driven by individual investors and, most likely, day traders hoping to ride the stock's momentum and to get out before the eventual fall.
It continues the momentum of the 1998 acquisition of 101 paintings and prints by Paul Gauguin and the School of Pont-Aven, and the 1999 announcements of the promised gifts of the Glick Collection of contemporary glass and the Clowes Collection of l00 works by European Old Masters.
It's been running full-page ads in the Wall Street Journal saying that ABC offers "no pandering" and "upscale momentum."
Just as the shift of money into Internet stocks was partly the product of a virtuous circle created by institutions trying to keep their portfolios invested in stocks that had "momentum," so too was the shift out partly the product of a vicious circle created by institutions trying to dump stocks that suddenly didn't have momentum.