It's hard to determine when to short a dot-com stock with no earnings to decelerate.

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In its other pro-business ruling this week, the court decided on Monday that Credit Suisse (nyse: CS - news - people ) and other investment banks weren't guilty of setting stock prices during the dot-com bubble, as some investors had alleged.

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In its other pro-business ruling this week, the court decided on Monday that Credit Suisse and other investment banks weren't guilty of setting stock prices during the dot-com bubble, as some investors had alleged.

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He'd survived layoffs at Goldman Sachs' Silicon Valley offices during the dot-com crash, become a well-regarded equity analyst of data storage companies, then taken his stock-picking skills into hedge funds.

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