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"How low can she go? After a remarkable rise late last year to a near $750-per-share high, GOOG has fallen down, down, down an equally shocking path to a point this month below $450. In fact, the stock dipped to $433.35 by the market\u2019s close last Friday afternoon. That\u2019s $313.89 off the top. Insane? Insane.\nWhat does this five-month decline from a November pinnacle amount to? Recalibration? It\u2019s a little too steep and fast-paced a plunge to consider it a temporary reset. No it hasn\u2019t fallen back to where it started. It\u2019s still hundreds of dollars away from its \u201Chumble\u201D beginnings. But man, what a slide.\nI would imagine the drop to be a mixture of things. Partly the company\u2019s obvious overvaluation (circa Q3-4 2007). Partly the \u201Cunappealing\u201D earnings reports. Partly the general gloom of the American economy. Because, well, US has basically stalled. It is presently moving at barely a crawl, and who the heck wants to invest then numbers aren\u2019t budging? Safety first!\nOh, and then there\u2019s that whole fear complex everyone has come to enjoy love-hate relations with. It\u2019s a violent thing, but fear can make people lose money, or make it. Sometimes a lot of it. Say it with me. H-A-L-L-I-B-U-R-T-O-N. Too bad that today, there are a lot more losers than winners, even in that perpetual goldenland that is Silicon Valley. And when losses are met with more losses, you know what that means. Snowball. Big [bleepin\u2019] snowball.\nDo count on GOOG recouping. It\u2019ll happen. Guaranteed. A couple hundred in relatively short term gains and and people will be feeling uber-bullish once again.Remember, success in the tech world is equal parts product and buzz. (More or less.) And Google has some pretty nifty product in its pouch. Mountain View isn\u2019t done with amazing the press. And the pundits. And, last but not least, the users. Happy trading.\n\n\n\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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