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Stumbling US stock market raises spectre of dot-com era reckoning

Jeran Wittenstein, Ryan Vlastelica and Carmen Reinicke / Bloomberg
Jeran Wittenstein, Ryan Vlastelica and Carmen Reinicke / Bloomberg • 9 min read
Stumbling US stock market raises spectre of dot-com era reckoning
The symmetry today is raising frightening memories from a quarter century ago / Photo: Bloomberg
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A revolutionary new technology comes along and infatuates investors with its seemingly limitless possibilities. Euphoria sparks a stock market rally. Eventually things get overheated and share prices become ridiculous. Then it all collapses.

Sound familiar? 

It happened exactly 25 years ago when the roughly five-year dot-com bubble popped, leaving trillions of dollars of investment losses in its wake. On March 24, 2000, the S&P 500 Index posted a record level it wouldn’t see again until 2007. Three days later, the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 Index also closed at an all-time high, the last time it would do that for more than 15 years. 

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