Marc Kaufmann, the previous manager of the Select Electronics fund thought that the sinking memory prices of 1996 presaged a rocket PC market.

FORBES: Rookie all-star

His hat-trick in Bielefeld's 4-1 triumph has made his market value rocket, which could not have come at a better time.

BBC: Momo ponders his future

But indexed funds do not employ rocket scientists to reproduce the market return.

ECONOMIST: Fund management

Given the lack of transparency in Indonesian business culture, few believe Jakarta has the discipline to abide by a currency board's simple but absolute rules -- print no more money than can be backed by hard currency and let interest rates rocket as high as the market demands.

CNN: Indonesia's Agony

Japan's market has been on a rocket-ride higher since Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced late last year his program to revitalize the economy.

WSJ: U.S. Stocks Drive Higher

"It's up like a rocket blast this year, " Leclerc said of the stock market.

NPR: Stocks Barely Budge; Market Ends Week With Loss

This isn't rocket science -- just take a cue from the smartphone market and build a slider QWERTY peanut with a friendly, stripped-down top layout.

ENGADGET: Ten years of TiVo: how far we haven't come

Europe's Ariane 5 rocket has established itself as the dominant force in the satellite launch market.

BBC: Ariane rocket ready to do battle

Although its great reliability has helped Ariane achieve a level of dominance in the global market for the launch of large telecommunications satellites, the rocket still requires subsidy from Esa nations.

BBC: SpaceX CEO Elon Musk: Europe's rocket 'has no chance'

Although this vehicle currently dominates the commercial satellite launch market, it is facing increased competition, especially from the US, where a new rocket developed by the Californian SpaceX company is undercutting Ariane sharply on price.

BBC: Ministers to define Europe's goals in space