bull market factoids

[Doug Henwood]

[A sidebar from the cover story "The Hype Machine," in the new Business Week]

BUSINESSWEEK ONLINE : APRIL 3, 2000 ISSUE

A World of Hype

-- On the Silicon Investor Web site, there are 26 message boards 
devoted entirely to CNBC chat

-- Investors now hold an average Nasdaq stock for 5 months, vs. 2 
years a decade ago

-- Wall Street advertising zoomed 95% last year to $1.2 billion--3 
times what it was 5 years ago

-- Buy recommendations outnumber sells by 72 to 1. The ratio 10 years 
ago was 10 to 1