Christopher Byron
New York Post cited by RGM Communications via Wayback, 10 January 2005
Investors with money in the large and well- capitalized companies of the Dow Jones industrial average certainly felt blue last week, as the first five trading days of the new year brought a 180-point, or 2 percent, drop on well-placed fears that the Federal Reserve intends to keep raising interest rates until the economy stalls out.
But to any of the growing legions of investors lucky, nervy, or foolish enough to have been slumming instead last week in the investing world’s seediest dive of them all – the penny stock market – Wall Street definitely looked pretty in pink.
