{"id":3926,"date":"2006-02-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"google-gaga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2006\/google-gaga.html","title":{"rendered":"Google gaga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wall Street Journal &#8211; Mutual funds piled into <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/quotes\/main.html?type=djn&amp;symbol=goog\" class=\"times\">Google<\/a> Inc. in 2005 as Wall Street repeatedly raised the baron the Internet search giant&#8217;s earnings prospects while its stock price soared. As the stock begins to gyrate, fund managers &#8212; and investors &#8212; must come to grips with those big bets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"times\">  Google&#8217;s shares swooned twice in the past three weeks, most recently on Tuesday, when the company&#8217;s fourth-quarter earnings missed analysts&#8217; lofty expectations. The stock slumped as much as 20% at  one point in after-hours trading, shaving billions from Google&#8217;s market value in a blink.<\/p>\n<p class=\"times\">  &#8220;We were somewhat surprised by the magnitude of the decline,&#8221; said Alex Motola, manager of the <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/fund\/page\/fund_snapshot.html?mod=inap&amp;symbol=THCGX\" class=  \"times\">Thornburg Core Growth Fund<\/a>, which owns Google. He said he thought the stock would recover somewhat by Wednesday&#8217;s session. &#8220;I tend to think that after-hours trading is like the Wild  West.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"times\">  Indeed, Google shares recouped more than half of their losses, finishing Wednesday at $401.78, down 7.1%, or $30.88. At its worst point Tuesday evening, the stock plunged nearly $80.&nbsp;That  slide, though, wasn&#8217;t reflected in mutual funds late Tuesday or Wednesday morning since it occurred after funds locked in their 4 p.m. closing prices used to calculate net asset values.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/public\/article\/0,,SB113883872757062642-WCrY5eBaYkSeF71eUhCmqa_i_Cs_20060208,00.html?mod=mktw\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wall Street Journal &#8211; Mutual funds piled into Google Inc. in 2005 as Wall Street repeatedly raised the baron the Internet search giant&#8217;s earnings prospects while its stock price soared. As the stock begins to gyrate, fund managers &#8212; and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}