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COMMENTARY Crystal Ball Gazing: Nanotechnology Stock Indices.
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Nanoparticle News
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May 1, 2006
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This past month Newbridge Securities Corp. launched its own nanotechnology (NT) stock market performance index. It joins a long line of other investment companies who have recently compiled composite indices, based on various criteria, trying to gage the impact and promise of NT in the market place. Unraveling how nanotechnology will unfold in the market place lies somewhere in the midst of the underlying science, the wisdom of investment experts and the fickleness of consumer acceptance. Investment forecasting skeptics argue that NT will become more pervasive, and will likely impact many, rather than just a few, business sectors. Being able to precisely quantify NT is ...