{"id":31345,"date":"2017-07-22T10:10:54","date_gmt":"2017-07-22T14:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=31345"},"modified":"2017-07-22T10:10:54","modified_gmt":"2017-07-22T14:10:54","slug":"sp-500-tech-stocks-surpass-dot-com-peak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/?p=31345","title":{"rendered":"S&#038;P 500 Tech Stocks Surpass Dot-Com Peak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>22 July 2017. On Wednesday, Standard &amp; Poor&#8217;s index of 500 stocks in the <a href=\"https:\/\/us.spindices.com\/indices\/equity\/sp-500-information-technology-sector\">information technology industry<\/a> closed at 992.29, its highest point since March 2000, at the height of the dot-com boom, when the index reached 988.49. Investment analysts attribute recent gains to better-than-expected profits for a number of companies in the technology sector.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, the index closed down slightly at 991.97, which still represents an increase of more than 31 percent in the past year. The following chart is courtesy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chart\/10364\/s-p-500-tech-stocks-surpass-dot-com-peak\/\">Statista<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Infographic: S&amp;P 500 Tech Stocks Surpass Dot-Com Peak | Statista\" href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chart\/10364\/s-p-500-tech-stocks-surpass-dot-com-peak\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 100%; height: auto !important; max-width: 960px; -ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" src=\"https:\/\/infographic.statista.com\/normal\/chartoftheday_10364_sandp_500_tech_stocks_surpass_dot_com_peak_n.jpg\" alt=\"Infographic: S&amp;P 500 Tech Stocks Surpass Dot-Com Peak | Statista\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\" \/><\/a> You will find more statistics at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/\">Statista<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, Standard &#038; Poor&#8217;s index of 500 stocks in the information technology industry closed at 992.29, its highest point since March 2000, at the height of the dot-com boom, when the index reached 988.49. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[109,86,23,24,78],"class_list":["post-31345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","tag-computer-science","tag-engineering","tag-equity","tag-investment","tag-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31346,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31345\/revisions\/31346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}