2. Content
• What is the dot-com bubble
• What happened
• The bubble burst
• Impact
• Conclusion
• References
3. 1. What is the dot-com bubble
• A historic speculative bubble of period 1997-
2000
• The period marked by the founding of a group
of new Internet-based companies with official
web site have domain “dot.com”: google.com,
yahoo.com…
• Shares of high-tech companies is speculated
4. 2. What happened
• August 9, 1995 Netscape Communications
company listed its shares marked the advent
of dot-com bubble
• At the mid of 1990s, with the development of
PC, the Internet venture capitalists funding for
establish business website
• More and more companies have established
and listed their shares
5. 2. What happened
• The Down Jones index and NASDAQ index
growth up with the NASDAQ index peaking at
5132.52 in intraday trading before closing at
5048.62 on March 10, 2000
• In the rest of 2000 this index reduced 50% and
continued declined in the next years
6. 3. The bubble burst
• April 4, 2000 the NASDAQ fell from 4283
points to 3649 points
• By 2001, the bubble was deflating at full
speed
• A large amount of dot-com stopped trading
• Investors often referred to these failed dot-
coms as "dot-bombs”
7. 4. Impact
• Dot-com bubble and many other factor have
made the economic prosperity of the United
States in the second half of the 1990s in the
following ways
– The technology shares grow up made the
development of many technology companies
– Stimulated consumption.
8. 4. Impact
• The burst of bubble opened the economic
recession early 2000s in US
• The economic recession in US also entailed
the recession in other countries such as:
British, Japan…
9. 5. Conclusion
• The growth up quickly of new technology
especially information technology bring a lot
of chances for business but the overestimate
and speculation cause to the collapse of the
market
