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Trading Investment Advice Sites Find They Must Shift as Investors Do.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, February, 2001

By Sam Ali, The Star-Ledger, Newark, N.J. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Feb. 19--Last year, smoking out hot stock tips on Internet message boards was the height of investor chic.

Trading investment advice around the office water cooler was totally fashionable. And following Maria Bartiromo's every word on cable network CNBC -- very chichi.

But these days, fundamentals are back in style.

Blame it on dropping stock prices. Investors today want more research tools, more analyst-level perspective and more tutorials, according to a recent study. They want to know what the heck a P/E ratio is.

And online business news sites like CBS MarketWatch, TheStreet.com and The Motley Fool, which shrewdly capitalized on the stock...

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