Word: beares
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When stock market prices trembled from their highs and fell, rumor remembered the claws of famed Bear Jesse Livermore and how he might be running through the list, searching for weak spots to tear at. But last week Bear Livermore publicly scoffed the idea that "the little trading" he does was responsible for the break. Another ogre has been the report of a new bear in Boston who "sells the board" in lots of from 50,000 to 100,000 shares. To conservative Boston bankers the new bear is not familiar. To traders and speculators he is known as William...
Kolster Radio Corp., down from 78¾ to 15.* Bear argument: Small earnings, keen competition to come from the new General Motors-General Electric-Westinghouse-Radio Corp. manufacturing combine...
Marmon Motors Co., down from 104 to 36.* Bear argument: Earnings, quarter ending May 31, 1929, $4.12; quarter ending Aug. 31, 17?. Poor outlook for all motors. United Corp., down from 75½ to 49¾* Bear argument: General inflation of utilities, exemplified by the Boston Edison case (TIME...
Those who have thumbed dead instruments in a vain attempt to get material over the wet wire in time for the football extra or evening edition will bear grateful testimony to the wisdom of the Athletic Association. And those who have hurriedly pushed the last few sentences along a hesitating wire amid sullen curses addressed to weather conditions and press boxes alike, will be the first to realize the paper value and so the money value of conditions conducive to speed and comfort in play by play reporting...
...caused by his statement, Mr. Babson was flayed by all the financial writers in New York whose pleasure it is to reflect the views of their friends, the brokers. "A statistician who has been always wrong"-"A man for whose opinion the market has no great regard"-"A chronic bear always predicting disaster"-were typical introductory sentences to Babson-flaying opinions. Last week the Market broke and the commentators either blamed the Hatry incident, the Snowden speech, the loans to brokers, or whatnot-or else conceded that stocks had been forced to artificial heights. Vindicated, Mr. Babson said nothing...