Subject: Re: Bubble Watch
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Few companies were as hot in early 2000 as Cisco, whose networking equipment served as the backbone of the internet boom.

On Wednesday, Cisco’s stock surpassed its dot-com peak for the first time. The shares rose almost 1% to $80.25, topping their prior split-adjusted record or $80.06 reached on March 27, 2000. That’s the same day that Cisco passed Microsoft to become the most valuable publicly traded company in the world.

Back then, investors saw Cisco as a way to bet on the growth of the web, as companies that wanted to get online relied upon the hardware maker’s switches and routers. But following a half-decade boom, the dot-com bubble burst just after Cisco reached its zenith, a collapse that wiped out more than three-quarters of the Nasdaq’s value by October 2002.