One well-known high-tech stock that I own has grown over 2,000 percent in the last five years.

Do not try to beat the markets by speculating on commodities or high-tech stocks.

But never bet on an individual high-tech stock you may have heard touted by someone at your health club.

Other high-tech stocks, normally leaders in an up market, were down.

With high-tech stocks improving again, the Nasdaq composite climbed 14.48 points, to 1,124.92.

Canada's stock markets were especially hard hit by the collapse in high-tech stocks.

For such firms, to continue advising against high-tech stocks is to risk extinction.

The drop in high-tech stocks in the Spring of 2000 sent a shiver through the global market place.

They hung on over the last year as Nasdaq, where the high-tech stocks traded, nose-dived.

Analysts said it was too early to tell if the high-tech stocks were starting their recovery.