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Merrill's Henry Blodget, for instance, issued a report Wednesday in which he raised his rating on Amazon.com and Yahoo to "near-term buy" from "accumulate," and added that he also expected six other Net companies--AOL, Barnesandnoble.com, Excite@Home, eToys, Inktomi, and Lycos--to do well in upcoming quarters.
Now, set aside the complete foolishness of distinguishing between "near-term buy" and "accumulate" (how, again, am I supposed to accumulate shares if I don't buy them? and does near-term buy mean that these stocks are a long-term sell? or perhaps just a long-term accumulate?).
As the Times observes, this is a pretty dramatic shift from just this past weekend when administration officials were discouraging talk of a near-term surplus.
A terrorist threat advisory distributed in late June indicated a high probability of near-term "spectacular" terrorist attacks resulting in numerous casualties.
Individually, many of these environmental effects may be relatively small in terms of their overall ecosystem and monetary importance, particularly in the near-term.