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Mar 31, 2000

Walking the tightrope

Looking at high-flying companies trying to descend to lower altitudes

In yet another sign that today's exuberant market conditions are inducing some strange side-effects - to say nothing of the havoc wrought on value investors' psyches - Sony Corp president Nobuyuki Idei was quoted calling his company's shares 'overvalued' in a January 6 interview with Reuters. Investors began dumping the stock as news of the story started to circulate, and by day's end Sony was off 20 percent from its all-time high two days earlier.Idei is not the first high-profile executive

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