{"id":2715,"date":"2006-12-21T09:14:23","date_gmt":"2006-12-21T09:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2715"},"modified":"2006-12-21T09:14:23","modified_gmt":"2006-12-21T09:14:23","slug":"2007_financial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2715","title":{"rendered":"2007 Financial Market Forecasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bwnt.businessweek.com\/fearless_forecasters\/2006\/index.asp?sortCol=dow_jones_mid_year&amp;sortOrder=ASC&amp;pageNum=1&amp;resultNum=81\">Business Week<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i> We polled 80 strategists for their 2007 predictions, and many think tech stocks will be on top. Call it a 7% year. That&#8217;s the return the 80 strategists we polled expect in 2007 for the Dow Jones industrial average and the Standard &#038; Poor&#8217;s 500-stock index. Our prognosticators overwhelmingly think technology will be the best-performing sector next year, but still come up with a forecast of only a 9% gain in the tech-heavy NASDAQ Composite. They expect the Russell 2000, an index of small-cap stocks, to lag, with just a 6% return. Strategists are listed according to their yearend Dow forecasts, from the most bullish to the most bearish<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business Week: We polled 80 strategists for their 2007 predictions, and many think tech stocks will be on top. Call it a 7% year. That&#8217;s the return the 80 strategists we polled expect in 2007 for the Dow Jones industrial average and the Standard &#038; Poor&#8217;s 500-stock index. Our prognosticators overwhelmingly think technology will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2715"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}