The Nasdaq is poised to top 5,000 within months By: MarketWatch September 11, 2014 at 06:00 AM EDT The tech-heavy index has fewer and bigger companies, and they’re more stable, writes Howard Gold. Read More >> Related Stocks: Alibaba Group Holding Ltd Apple Cisco Systems Facebook Groupon Cl A Intel Corp Microsoft Qualcomm, Inc. Zynga Inc Cl A