eBay, Juniper Lead Net Rout
Internet stocks were crushed Monday on analyst downgrades to eBay and Juniper Networks.
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eBay
Morgan Stanley downgraded the networking sector to Neutral based on capital spending concerns. Juniper
Technical note: It's worth taking another look at the Juniper broadening top. A broadening top is usually a series of three higher highs and two lower lows, but can sometimes have a flat top or bottom, and can sometimes go on to make a fourth high. It is considered a major topping pattern, requiring out-of-control trading conditions. Hence, the pattern's appearance last month was a bearish sign even before it broke. The predicted minimum move is the distance from the peak (#5) to the previous reaction low (#4), from that lower point. The pattern is not considered broken until the stock closes below the reaction low by 3%. The Juniper pattern was 65 points in size, from the 244 1/2 peak to the 179 1/2 reaction low, predicting a minimum downside move to 114 1/2. The closing break came a week ago at 164 1/2. The stock rebounded to 184 the next day, slightly above the break point, but not quite by 3%, then declined 30% in four trading days.
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The merged entity of Phone.com and Software.com began trading under a new name and stock symbol: Openwave plunged 43 to 477, a new yearly low, and the Nasdaq lost 151 to 2875. The S&P 500 declined 25 to 1342, and the Dow fell 167 to 10,462. Volume declined to 953 million shares on the NYSE, but rose slightly to 1.72 billion shares on the Nasdaq. Decliners led by 18 to 9 the NYSE and 29 to 9 on the Nasdaq. For earnings reports, visit our earnings calendar and reported earnings. For after hours quotes and news, visit our after hours trading site.
dropped 8 5/16 to 35 1/8 on a Lehman Brothers downgrade to Neutral from Buy. Lehman said eBay's core auction business is slowing, and that newer initiatives will take more time and money to implement than estimated.
plummeted 32 1/4 to 122 3/32, approaching our downside target of 120 based on the break of a broadening top. Redback
lost 8 3/4 to 72, and Extreme Networks
dropped 8 13/16 to 64 1/2.
lost 7 1/8 to 40 1/2 a day after breaking its uptrend from April. The company said its quarter is on track, and analysts called the sell-off a buying opportunity. Ariba
fell 8 1/8 to 67 15/16, continuing its decline after falling back below its June breakout point of 83 1/2. 60 is a possible support point, but the stock has room to 49.
lost 1 3/4 to 131 1/4. The stock reached its downside potential of 125 this morning, based on its break of a head and shoulders top recently.
was one of only two ISDEX stocks to finish the day higher, surging 1 3/32 to 8 1/4 on a deal with America Online
and Time Warner to offer its broadband Internet services over Time Warner Cable systems. The deal was an effort to gain approval for the AOL-Time Warner merger from the Federal Trade Commission, which will revisit the issue in 2-4 weeks. The other ISDEX stock rising was Portal Software
, which climbed 1 9/16 to 19 5/8 on two analyst upgrades.
lost 7 3/4 to 106 after Register.com
and Baltimore Technologies
teamed up to offer digital certificates to Register.com customers.
rose 1 15/16 to 7 1/4 after DoubleClick
revised the terms of its buyout of the company.