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Today's Nasdaq sell-off was relatively steep (although you have to remember that with the Nasdaq near 3,000, 71 points is just not panic-inducing).
The most important thing about the IBM sell-off, though, was what it wasn't , namely an impetus for a more general sell-off in technology.
IBM's stock price bumped up a little bit on Friday, but stayed steady today, which suggests that Thursday's sell-off was not some massive overreaction.
Analysts attribute the sell-off to tax incentives arriving with the new year and to heightened fears of an interest-rate hike when the Federal Reserve Board meets on Feb. 1. The NYT and Post lead with President Clinton's announcement that he will nominate Alan Greenspan for a fourth four-year term as chairman of the Fed.
In other words, it would be a mistake to dismiss all U.S. investors' worries about the impact of the Hong Kong sell-off on U.S. companies as the fearful bleatings of people who, having read too many silly headlines about globalization, suddenly decided--since everyone else seemed to have decided, too--that the sky was falling.