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tech · sector mood
1999
year mood
+0.56
· +0.22 to +0.70 across 12 mo
Monthly mood
bearish −1
+1 bullish
month values ▾
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| +0.50 | +0.50 | +0.60 | +0.60 | +0.60 | +0.60 | +0.70 | +0.50 | +0.70 | +0.70 | +0.22 | +0.52 |
Peak dot-com euphoria: the Nasdaq returned 85.6%, its best year ever, with Red Hat, VA Linux (+698% debut) and Qualcomm (+2,600%) epitomizing a market where valuations detached entirely from fundamentals.
How this mood is scored ▾
Each day the model reads that day's news for the sector and asks, as someone who owns assets or
makes their living in it: how am I feeling this month, and why?
The month's mood is that running answer, tied to the specific events driving it (the story shown
above). It leans on trusted, higher-impact reporting, and on the prior month when a month is
quiet, so one loud headline can't swing it. The read updates daily through
the month; once a month ends, its mood is locked.
This year is read live from the news the pipeline actually collected (hover a bar for its story count).
· last computed Jul 06, 2026
Top tech stories of 1999
Nov
Judge declares Microsoft a monopoly in landmark findings of fact
cnn.com →
Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson found that Microsoft held and abused monopoly power in PC operating systems. The ruling put breakup risk on the table for the market's most valuable company and hung over big-cap tech into 2000.